Points of discussion for the steering group meeting, update on Kaptur etc. Presentation on the overall findings of the Environmental Assessment, by Marie-Therese Gramstadt, Kaptur Project Manager

1. JISC Kaptur project
Steering Group Meeting
6th February 2012
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2. Agenda
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
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3. Why is it essential to manage research data effectively?
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4. 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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5. What do the AHRC expect?
• AHRC support for Practice-led research through our Research
Grants – 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.
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6. What do the EPSRC expect?
• 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
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7. 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
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8. 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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9. 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
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10. 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/kaptu
r-interviews-goldsmiths-university-of-london
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11. 4 Environmental
Assessment
• Methodology (SlideShare)
• What is the nature of
visual arts research data?
• Reports from the Project
Officers (Anne, John,
Robin, Tahani)
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12. 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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13. 4 (b) Role of the Visual Arts Researcher
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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 5 Implementation
• Working groups
• Policies e.g.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/polic
y-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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19. 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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21. Image Credits
• 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
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22. 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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