Arts scholarship is tough in the current landscape, working under a government that increasingly values STEM and in a culture that has increasing requirements in open research. Research data management, born of engineering disciplines, is not easily applicable to visual or performing arts and nor should it be. Significant changes in the language, approach, infrastructure and drivers or goals need to happen in any research data management intervention in order to provide arts research with the support it needs, not for it’s data to yield maximum impact, but for it’s compost to turn into the brightest blooms. Lancaster University has a small but impactful research output in this discipline, and it can be difficult to engage researchers in the sharing and publishing of research data when they are incredibly unfamiliar with the process and in most cases do not consider themselves creators of data at all. In this paper, 5 key challenges are presented as a way of articulating the complexity in this area, and arguments are presented that maintain that research data management is entirely relevant for the arts. This contextual understanding combined with upskilling has begun to develop relationships at Lancaster, resulting in effective publishing of the following dataset in our institutional repository: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/life-survey-helping-shape-the-future-of-our-region

Archiving Brain Fruits: Research Data Management for The Arts

Lightning Talks B: Yvonne Campfens, Charles Watkinson & Joanne Fitzpatrick

Lancaster University’s Research Intelligence service launched in early 2019, and has gone from strength to strength, allowing opportunity to collect a staff award along the way. Joanne will detail the organic approach that was taken towards service design, how engagement from the research community was cultivated and relationships built and managed. She will share how this translated into bibliometric services, the analyses and reports that currently serve researchers at Lancaster University, and how the service will pro-actively plan for the future.

Charismetrics: winning researcher hearts and minds with the Research Intelligence service at Lancaster University

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 UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts a large number of delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. 

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Archiving Brain Fruits: Research Data Management for The Arts

Lightning Talks B: Yvonne Campfens, Charles Watkinson & Joanne Fitzpatrick

Charismetrics: winning researcher hearts and minds with the Research Intelligence service at Lancaster University

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