1. Towards a policy for Research Data
Management at UAL
6th March 2013
2. Background to UAL and the case study
• The RDM working group
• DCC Institutional
Engagement
• Environmental
Assessment Survey
• Towards a definition of
research data
• RDM Policy Progress
• Training
• Key achievements
3. Working group
• First met 10 April 2012,
then monthly
• Membership
Library Services
Research Management &
Administration
Research active community
IT Services
7. Towards a definition of research data in the visual
arts
“the output is built in to the very
process. What’s an output and what’s
the research is very slippery.”
“...sometimes I will be doing what I
would call a more ‘conventional
researchers’ role; at other times I will be
working in a very practice led way in a
studio with actors trying out ideas.”
“a lot of practice based research...is
data in a way, in a sense, it’s how you
start to build your work and your
process through just these incidentals.
A lot of artistic practice work is research
fieldwork”. Paul Ryan Sketchbooks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulryanandsketchbooks/
2906508327/in/set-72157607661375770/
8. Towards a definition of research data in the visual
arts
"terminology is important (...) and phrases must (where possible) be drawn
from within the arts rather than library science or similar.”
(JISC Incremental project)
• ‘Output is the process (practice based research)’
• ‘evidence of the journey’
• ‘archiving your process’
• ‘pre-production...’
• ‘working notes’
• ‘tacit knowledge’
13. RDM Policy at UAL
http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/data-management/
14. Training
• KAPTUR training event was held at
UAL in November
• Further training will be offered
from 2013/2014 to:
Early Career Researchers
Research students
New Research Staff
15. Social media and dissemination
• An active Twitter account for
UAL representing Kaptur
• https://twitter.com/UALKaptur
• 321 Tweets with 83 followers
• Blog posts
16. Key RDM Achievements
Monthly meetings UAL RDM Policy and
of the UAL RDM procedures approved
Working Group in October 2012
Buy-in and support Commitment to an RDM
from key Policy and EPSRC
stakeholders: IT, Roadmap from Senior
Library, Senior Management
researchers