Dr Muriel E. Swijghuisen Reigersberg's presentation from the ORCID and Casrai joint conference, Barcelona, May 2015

1. Problematizing Digital Research Evaluation and
Emerging Practices in Practice-Based Arts, Humanities
and Social Science Research
Dr Muriel E. Swijghuisen Reigersberg
(Goldsmiths, University of London)
m.swijghuisen@gold.ac.uk

2. Goldsmiths….
• Is a research intensive, small research university
• Has over 15 EU grants and many smaller UK ones
• Specialises in interdisciplinary research rooted in arts, humanities and
social science subjects.
• Conducts a lot of practice-based research that is not digital
• Needs to collaborate and develop new ways of thinking about
research dissemination or risk becoming unsustainable in national
research exercises.

3. Funders of Goldsmiths Research
(not all mandate open access and open data and much
research remains unfunded)

5. ORCIDs, DOIs and Research at Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths recognises the importance of ORCID nos and DOIs for tracking its
research activity at University level.
Not many researchers have ORCID IDs and/ or use DOIs (yet)
Reasons for this current absence of engagement vary:
1. Definitions of data do not ‘fit’ with what researchers believe they are
producing practically and ontologically
2. Many researchers produce monographs that are not yet open access
3. (Citation) metrics work differently in AHSS research
4. Open data creates challenges for researchers in copyright, intellectual
property rights and ethics

6. Emerging Approaches (1):
Transforming Musicology
http://www.transforming-musicology.org/
Project explores how software tools developed by the music information
retrieval (MIR) community can be applied in musical study. The project
comprises three specific case studies of MIR applications which:
1. enhance the use of digitally encoded sources in studying 16th-century lute
and vocal music and using such sources to develop new musical pattern
matching techniques to improve existing MIR tools;
2. augment traditional study of Richard Wagner's leitmotif technique through
audio pattern matching and supporting psychological testing;
3. explore how musical communities on the Web engage with their music by
employing MIR tools in developing a social platform for furthering musical
discussion online.
For further information contact Prof Tim Crawford: t.crawford@gold.ac.uk

7. Emerging Approaches (2):
Photomediations: An Open Book
http://photomediationsopenbook.net
1. Photomediations: An Open Book’s online form allows for easy
sharing of its content.
2. Promotes ‘open access’, ‘open scholarship’ and ‘open education’,
3. Explores a low-cost hybrid publishing model
4. Provides a good model of how AHSS researchers in the visual arts
might approach the production of open access monographs and arts
catalogues,
5. Licencing and copy right issues foregrounded.
For further information contact Prof Joanna Zylinska: j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk

8. Emerging Approaches (3):
Citizensense
http://www.citizensense.net
1. Investigates the relationship between technologies and practices of
environmental sensing and citizen engagement.
2. Produces scientific data sets to support social science enquiries and activism
3. Uses mobile and other technologies to monitor air quality and to collect other
crowd sourced environmental data
4. Has developed website that collects live data sensing on air quality for public
access
5. Very suitable for using DOIs and ORCID to help map both academic and social
impact
6. Highly interdisciplinary and demonstrates the way in which boundaries between
AHSS and other types of research can be broken down and how the use of DOIs
and ORCIDs can become very valuable in measuring impact
For further information contact Dr Jennifer Gabrys: j.gabrys@gold.ac.uk

9. Afterthoughts and the next steps…
Dr Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg
m.swijghuisen@gold.ac.uk