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is conceived and put together, and shine a new technological light upon the artistic process and the data associated with it. Taking visual art as a starting point, they are automating a system to capture a complete log of everything the artist saw, accessed, and edited online and on their computer. Some argue that this is part of the inspiration, or even the nature of, the artistic process – it will be fascinating to see how artists, librarians and research managers will use the outputs. DataVault – the joint Manchester-Edinburgh University team are developing an easy way for researchers to manage the transition of active data into longer-term archiving systems (such as Amazon, Glazier, Arkivum and other local solutions), preserving it with integrity for years to come. This is a unique interface built specifically for researchers and with research data in mind.
CREAM – forget the band; forget the
club; it’s now an ambitious project to capture and package metadata as research is being generated. The team hope to banish the days of trawling back through research to produce, or extract, metadata – and make this process an integral, automated part of research itself. Very smooth.
Filling in the digital preservation gap – increasingly more researchers find it difficult to re-use data because of the inability to read files in old software formats or for expired licenses. This project addresses this digital preservation gap by tailoring an existing tool, Archivematica, to the needs of UK research. It aims to remove the technical complexities and make long-term preservation easier and faster for researchers, archivists and librarians.
‘We will be looking to roll out solutions out as shared services’
Software RRR – You remember them from school, but now the three Rs mean something different: Reuse, Repurpose and Reproducibility. The software RRR project is looking at ways to assign persistent identifiers to software. It will allow users to access the code, but will also have a nifty ‘play-it’ function to run the software. Next time you want to see if a piece of software will help your project, you will be able to check how it works and whether it’s what you need – without having to install the whole thing.
What’s next? We are running one more ‘sandpit’ workshop in December, when the projects will be getting together to show what they’ve developed and some will even demonstrate their products in use. A preview and synthesis of the projects and their outputs is in the pipeline, and we are working on it in collaboration with the DCC, SSI and DPC. The projects are already sharing their learning, and lessons from their work, across the sector and would welcome your inputs.
Now we’re in the second development phase, do check our blog for regular updates. In fact, we’ll be sharing quite soon a comprehensive reading list of the reports and outputs the projects have published so far, which you can already find on their own blogs and websites. We hope to disseminate the outputs further and reach out to all kinds of people across sectors as we go on, so we’d welcome the opportunity to engage with you. We’re a friendly bunch and the projects are working on some fascinating new solutions – look us up!
Daniela Duca is senior co-design manager at the technology charity Jisc and lead on the Research Data Spring project
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