Practice Research Voices (PRVoices) - Scoping the Open Library of Practice Research

我们如何更好地分享艺术家、建筑师、策展人和创意从业者所产生的知识，他们的工作涉及从文化遗产、健康和福祉到气候变化和全球安全等关键和紧迫的优先领域？一个利用实践研究开发的世界领先的知识获取系统如何能够改变跨部门、学科和行业的观念、参与和创新？为什么这些声音没有一个有效的平台来改变学术、经济和文化的影响？这个项目将开发一些方法，让从事实践研究的人捕捉到他们工作的细节，并与他人分享。它将由一份报告提供信息，该报告是在过去几个月与大量从事实践研究领域工作的人讨论的基础上发表的。报告确定；在所有的研究领域中，通过做某件事，你就是在从事实践。因此，将研究转化为实践的领域几乎涵盖了科学努力的每一个领域，并且2)当前用于分发研究的软件正在辜负实践研究社区。报告中包含了一些建议，我们的目标是将其作为称为存储库的软件的一部分来实现。这个在线图书馆将允许从事实践研究的人将他们的工作提供给所有人。该项目通过使用现有的存储库，并与已建立的从业者合作，找出如何使这些存储库对研究人员、机构和资助者更有效，从而提供了物有所值的服务。我们将与三个存储库合作——一个在满足实践研究人员的需求方面相当先进（威斯敏斯特大学/ Haplo），一个目前正在处理博物馆和画廊内容（大英图书馆和V&A），另一个目前擅长处理“典型”书面文章内容（Jisc）。通过跨一系列存储库进行测试，我们将在项目结束时生成一份报告，其中包含改进所有存储库的建议。整体提案的关键是所有研究的公平格局，其中非stem（科学技术工程和数学）研究被更清楚地理解，并被视为与论文、出版物和专著具有同等价值。除了将非文本输出作为“其他”（如电影、数据库、档案和策展展览）的参考之外，我们还强调了艺术和人文学科研究人员的技术问题和缺乏平等。该项目将建立在现有的实践研究人员社区的基础上，这些研究人员对大学部门的功能、角色和未来至关重要，并在国内和国际上为更广泛的实践研究讨论做出贡献。这个社区与研究团队一起，成为开发严格的学术和技术软件解决方案的核心，解决如何描述、存储、发现和进一步阐述实践研究。

How do we better share the knowledge generated by artists, architects, curators and creative practitioners whose work addresses critical and urgent priority areas, ranging from cultural heritage, health and well-being to climate change and global security? How could a world-leading system for accessing knowledge developed using practice research transform ideas, engagement and innovation across sectors, academic disciplines and industry? Why are such voices missing an efficient platform that could transform academic, economic and cultural impacts?This project will develop ways to let the people that perform practice research capture details of their work and share it with others. It will be informed by a report that was published in the last few months based on discussions with a large number of the people working in the field of practice research. The report established that; 1) in all fields of research, by doing something, you are engaging in practice. Therefore, the field of research into practice covers almost every area of scientific endeavour, and 2) current software for distributing research was failing the practice research community. The report contained recommendations that we aim to implement as a piece of software called a repository. This online library will allow the people who engage in practice research to make their work available to all.The project provides value for money by using existing repositories and working with established practitioners to figure out how to make these more efficient for researchers, institutions and funders. We will be working with three repositories - one that is quite advanced in addressing the needs of practice researchers (University of Westminster/ Haplo), one that is currently working with museum and gallery content (British Library and V&A) and another that is currently good at working with "typical" written article content (Jisc). By testing across a range of repositories we will produce a report at the end of the project that contains recommendations to improve all of them.Key to the overall proposal is an equitable landscape for all research, in which non-STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) research is understood more clearly and talked about as of equal value to papers, publications and monographs. Moving beyond the reference to non-text outputs as "Other", such as Film, Databases, Archives and curated exhibitions, we highlight the technical issues and lack of parity for researchers working across Arts and Humanities.The project will build upon an existing community of practice researchers who are essential to the function, role and future of the University sector, contributing nationally and internationally to the broader discussion of practice research. This community, along with the research team, becomes a kernel from which to develop a rigorous academic and technical software solution that addresses how practice research is described, stored, discovered and further elaborated.