SPARKLE - Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement

用于研究、知识、学习和参与的持续实践资产（SPARKLE）将是一个用于存储、发现、访问、分析和保存实践研究资产的国家基础设施：这些资产可能包括文本，但也包括图像/视频/音频/软件，以及其他不太常见的媒介。实践研究是一个广泛的社区，跨越学科（创意艺术、人文学科、医疗保健等），目前以文本为中心的存储库无法很好地为其服务，需要更广泛的媒介考虑更周全的方法。同样，当前的存储库侧重于单一输出，不适合实践研究的过程性和相互联系的性质。SPARKLE将解决这些问题，并填补互连可信存储库领域的重大空白，因为当前的机构/主题存储库缺乏管理复杂、多部分、互连资产的能力。它将为创新设计和实践研究提供集成的技术基础设施，并通过基于云的数据服务实现规模经济，包括关键的FAIR（可查找、可访问、可互操作和可重用）原则。作为支持现在和未来实践研究的整体服务，SPARKLE将包括分析定量、厚数据和大数据的能力，以及支持记录、访问和重用实践资产的学习资源。该项目将初步确定所需数据基础设施和社区培训需求的范围。

Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement (SPARKLE) will be a national infrastructure for the storage, discovery, access, analysis, and preservation of practice research assets: which may include text, but also image/video/audio/software, and other less common mediums. Practice research is a broad community that cuts across disciplines (creative arts, humanities, healthcare, and others) that is not well-served by current text-focussed repositories, needing a more considered approach to a wider range of mediums. Equally, the current repository focus on single outputs is a poor fit for the processual and interconnected nature of practice research. SPARKLE will address these issues and fill in a significant gap in the interconnected trusted repositories landscape, as the current institutional/subject repositories lack capabilities in the management of complex, multipart, interconnected assets. It will provide an integrated technology infrastructure for innovative design and practice research, along with economies of scale through a cloud-based data service, encompassing critical FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. As a holistic service to support practice research for now and the future, SPARKLE will include capabilities for analysing quantitative, thick, and big data, and learning resources to support documenting, accessing, and reusing practice assets. This project will produce an initial scoping of the required data infrastructure and community training needs.