JISC Kaptur projectSteering Group Meeting

6th February 2012

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1. to discuss the role of the Project Sponsors and the

Steering Group

2. to approve the Steering Group Terms of Reference

3. an update on Kaptur

4. to discuss the findings of the Environmental

Assessment Report

5. to approve/get advice on the Implementation Plan

Agenda

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Why is it essential to manage research data effectively?

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Why is it essential to manage research data effectively?

crucial to research and innovation

a fundamental part of maintaining our continued success in research

aid the dissemination of art and design research, benefitting all

because it is required by the UK Research Councils (£3 billion)

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• AHRC support for Practice-led research through our Research G

rants – practice-led and applied route (RGPLA)

“We expect all of our research projects to have some form of

documentation of the research process, which usually takes the

form of textual analysis or explanation to support the research’s

position and to demonstrate critical reflection.”

• Professor: ‘some form of’ documentation compared to going on a

walking holiday and suggesting you bring ‘some form of’ shoes.

What do the AHRC expect?

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• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

“EPSRC expects all those it funds to have developed a clear

roadmap to align their policies and processes with EPSRC’s

expectations by 1st May 2012, and to be fully compliant with

these expectations by 1st May 2015.”

• EPSRC expectations

Institutions to make metadata describing the research data

(digital and non-digital) available within 12 months of the data

being generated - with the aim of enabling access to the data

What do the EPSRC expect?

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1(a) Project Sponsors

• Kaptur Champions• identify relevant contacts

and information• support access to key

people and resources• to help promote the need

for policies/systems at a high level

1(b) Steering Group

1. to provide feedback on the Implementation Plan

2. to inform the direction of the Research Data Management Institutional Policies and the Research Data Management Pilot Systems

3. to support the sustainability of the policies and systems in the longer term

2 ACTION: approve terms of reference

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3(a) Kaptur update

• Project Management http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/outputs/ https://kaptur.wordpress.com/category/project-posts/

• Consortium Agreement• Environmental

Assessment report• Technical Analysis

3(b) Dissemination• Events/Twitter/Blog/SlideShare• http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/contact.html• http://

www.slideshare.net/kaptur_mrd/art-emergy-v1

• https://kaptur.wordpress.com/tag/dcc-roadshows/

• https://kaptur.wordpress.com/tag/idcc11/• http://

www.dcc.ac.uk/news/arts-perspective-dcc-roadshow

• http://www.slideshare.net/kaptur_mrd/kaptur-interviews-goldsmiths-university-of-london

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4 Environmental Assessment

• Methodology (SlideShare)• What is the nature of

visual arts research data?• Reports from the Project

Officers (Anne, John, Robin, Tahani)

4 (a) Terminology

• lost in translation• ‘research data’• ‘research outputs’• ‘studio documentation’

(de Freitas 2002)• ‘digital curation’• ‘data curation’• ‘archiving’• ‘active archiving’

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4 (b) Role of the Visual Arts Researcher

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Fig. 1. visual arts research as a continuum over time with 'organisational moments' at which research data may be actualised

‘organisational moments’ e.g. a grant application, writing a paper, preparation for the REF, institutional duties, lectures, tutorials, other learning and teaching events, exhibitions, filing information, or other activities

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4 (c) Creation of Visual Arts Research Data

• “it is never a smooth and homogenous process but a fluid, ‘wet’ and folded, if not at times messy, fuzzy and tumultuous” (Gray and Delday 2010)

• [qualitative research] “difficult to define clearly” (Denzin and Lincoln 2005)

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4 (d) Use/Re-Use of Visual Arts Research Data

• common artistic practice e.g. collage• useful way of talking to researchers about ‘research data’ e.g.

Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts London• “Artists take inspiration from everywhere – literature, landscape,

advertising, other works of art, political and historical events – so the process of creation and inspiration is cyclical.” V&A Museum London

• visual culture ‘sites’ and ‘modalities’ (Rose 2007)• Duchamp’s ‘The Large Glass’ reconstructed by Richard Hamilton• collaborative working

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4 (e) Visual Arts Research Data in the Longer Term

• researchers want to access their, and others, research data from multiple locations (home, work, other)

• digital and non-digital research data often stored at personal expense of the researcher and in their homes

• use of external websites such as blogs due to time taken to set-up internal sites

• one interviewee had their laptop stolen (from the institution) just before they were interviewed, everything was lost

• what do you keep? will it be understood in the future?

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5 Implementation

• Working groups• Policies e.g. http://

www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policies

• Training/support - awareness raising using suitable terminology

• Technical infrastructure: could be a secure, UK-hosted (or locally hosted) cloud storage system

• Business Cost and Sustainability Plans (KRDS)

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5 Implementation - discussion

• Who should be included in the working groups? (IT, Research Office, Researchers, Library) – CARDIO lite approach

• How can we get a policy approved? (committees, dates, contacts)• Existing work at the institutions in this area we might not be aware of?• Technical infrastructure: could be a secure, UK-hosted (or locally

hosted) cloud storage system – thoughts? issues?• KRDS: benefits

– Sustainability of research data infrastructure.– Change to user practices.– Mitigating organisational risks.

• KRDS: metrics – qualitative and quantitative - snapshot

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• 3: Stock Photo: Golden Egg• 4: Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of Alexander Reid © Culture and Sport

Glasgow (Museums) Available from VADS• 7: Super Fashion for Super Heroes, 1966 © London College of

Fashion/The Woolmark Company Available from VADS• 8: IWMPC poster Reproduced by kind permission of London’s Transport

Museum © Transport for London (http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk) Available from VADS

• 9: Milestone © Public Monuments and Sculpture Association Available from VADS

• 10; 14; 15; 18: Photo: MTG• 11: Mike Stubbs, Donut © Mike Stubbs Available from VADS• 12: Execution in Progress © Toby Simkin Available from Flickr• 20: screenshot from JISC Inform Issue 32

Image Credits

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Marie-Therese Gramstadt

Kaptur Project Manager

@MTG_work

mtg@vads.ac.uk

http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur

https://kaptur.wordpress.com/

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