JISC KAPTUR project

Steering Group Meeting

8th January 2013

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Why is it essential to manage research data effectively?

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This is the point we began discussing visual arts research data at the first Steering Group meeting almost a year ago...

What is 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, cited in

Mey 2010)

• [qualitative research is] “difficult

to define clearly”

(Denzin and Lincoln 2005)

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Definitions of visual arts research data?

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Anything which is used or created to generate new knowledge

and interpretations. ‘Anything’ may be objective or subjective;

physical or emotional; persistent or ephemeral; personal or

public; explicit or tacit; and is consciously or unconsciously

referenced by the researcher at some point during the course

of their research. Research data may or may not lead to a

research output, which regardless of method of presentation, is

a planned public statement of new knowledge or interpretation.

Statement written by Leigh Garrett to encourage discussion

after the 14th September ‘Managing the Material’ workshop.

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Project Sponsors

• identify relevant contacts

and information

• support access to key

people and resources

• to help promote the need

for policies/systems at a

high level

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

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KAPTUR workpackages

• Project Management http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur/

outputs/

https://kaptur.wordpress.com/

category/project-posts/

• Consortium Agreement

• Environmental

Assessment report

• Technical Analysis

KAPTUR workpackages

• Working groups

• Policies e.g.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-

and-legal/institutional-data-policies

• Training

• Toolkits

• Case studies

• Conference

• Technical pilot

• Business Cost and Sustainability Plans

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‘KAPTUR’ing the benefits Benefit Evidence to be gathered and how it will be presented.

Improved rate of compliance with funder and institutional requirements

Track DMP creation at each institution, but with the provision that this is also dependent on available funding opportunities for researchers. To be presented as section in report.

Improved practice indicated by the adoption of an RDM policy

Institutional perspective from the role of the Project Officer on the benefits of the adoption of an RDM policy. Four case studies to be published.

Improved awareness of the issues involved in RDM

Benchmarking of all KAPTUR events and training. Information to be analysed and presented as section in report.

Increased numbers of findable research data/datasets from each institution

This will be tracked during the project if possible, but as discussed is more likely to be reported post-project due to the pilot nature of the technical infrastructure.

Improved user understanding of RDM

Qualitative information gathered through meetings, events, and the Environmental Assessment report. Mini-case studies in the form of blog posts or similar.

Improved organisation RDM practice/risk management

Cardio Lite quiz on institutional RDM, benchmarked by being re-run at end of project. Section in report.

5th case study on technical aspects

• 2: Stock Photo: Golden Egg

• 3; 8: Photos: MTG

• 5: Super Fashion for Super Heroes, 1966 © London College

of Fashion/The Woolmark Company Available from VADS

• 6: IWMPC poster Reproduced by kind permission of

London’s Transport Museum © Transport for London

(http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk) Available from VADS

• 7: Milestone © Public Monuments and Sculpture Association

Available from VADS

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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