1. Goldsmiths Research Online

2. Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO)
Open access online archive of Goldsmiths research output
Launch September 2008
System EPrints
Content Citation only: Details of articles, books, book sections, conference
items, creative output
Full text, images, video, sound
4,650 items of which 1,500 are full text
Method Self-deposit

3. Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO)
Facilitates OA green option
Promotes research and supports scholarly communication
Provides research support
- Author’s rights
- OA journals
- Dissemination of research
- Citation management (recording, tracking, optimising)
- Advice about OA, copyright, publishers and funders policies, self-archiving
Integration with other college systems: REF, staff pages, VLE

4. Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO)

5. GRO numbers
Over 160,000 visitors (Top 10: UK, US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, India,
Italy, Sweden, France) and 120,000 downloads
Most visited pages
-Negus, Keith R.. 2011. Producing Pop: Culture and Conflict in the Popular Music
Industry. London: out of print. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/5453/
-Cassidy, Rebecca. 2009. Zoosex and other relationships with animals. In: Hastings
Donnan and Fiona Magowan, eds. Transgressive Sex: subversion and control in erotic
encounters. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, pp. 91-112.
Most downloaded texts
Bond, Frank W., Hayes, Steven C., Baer, Ruth A., Carpenter, Ken C., Guenole, Nigel,
Orcutt, Holly K., Waltz, Tom and Zettle, Robert D.. 2011. Preliminary psychometric
properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire – II: A revised measure of
psychological flexibility and acceptance. Behavior Therapy, pp. 1-38.
Hill, Elisabeth L.. 2004. Executive dysfunction in autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
8(1), pp. 26-32.

6. GRO research projects
 Measuring Impact under CERIF (Common European Research
Information Format
nKULTIVATE and KAPTUR
AMedia Working Group

7. Research data worlds
Multispectral imaging
combined with remote
sensing, Forensic
Architecture, Goldsmiths

8. The importance of looking after research data
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Research councils and funders
RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy:
“The need for a statement on how underlying research material can be accessed is
currently in place for some, but not all Research Councils. (…) [W]e are extending this
policy to all Research Councils.”
Quality of research
The availability of research data in the public domain allows testing and validation and,
hence, ensures and solidifies the quality of research.
Democratising science and the research process
Projects such as GalaxyZoo (classification of images of galaxies taken by deep-space
telescopes), Old Weather (transcription of Royal Navy ship logs) and Patients Participate
(production of lay summaries for PubMed Central papers)

9. Research data: What we do
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JISC funded research project on the nature of SHERPA-LEAP funded project, managed by
research data in the arts headed by VADS Goldsmiths, on the description of non-standard
deposits in institutional repositories

10. KAPTUR
The nature of research data in arts-based research
White, Laura. 2011. For living, for loving, for Walsh, Roxy. 2011. Yellow Girls. Oil and w/c on Lubna, Arielle Gem and Mabb, David. 2011. Art and
loathing... Pollen, France, 4 February - 4 March gesso panel, 250mm x 330mm. In: Second Sex, Appropriation – when does artistic freedom become
2011. [Show/Exhibition] Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany, copyright infringement?. [Film/Video]
Jan 14th - Feb 12th 2011. [Show/Exhibition]

11. KAPTUR project
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Duration
Oct 2011 – Mar 2013
Outcomes
| model of best practice for management of
research data in the visual arts
| research data management policy
| pilot system
Project team
VADS
Goldsmiths
University of the Creative Arts
University of the Arts London
Glasgow School of Art

12. Visual arts research data
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Art historian
Interviews (sound files and transcripts);
notes; collected PDFs of articles;
images; printed articles; ephemera;
print-outs (e.g. websites)
Fine art researchers
Notes; sketches; videos; books;
photographs; models; stories; diaries;
screen grabs;
Designer
Interviews (sound files and transcripts);
notes; photographs; questionnaires;
postcards; diaries; stories; emails; Cultural probe, Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths, 2011.
videos; workshop notes and data;
sketchbooks; workbooks; prototypes;
manuals

13. Provisional findings
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Difficult to distinguish/extract research data from research process
Research data changes shape and form throughout research process
Research data is heterogeneous
Management of research data is situated
Research process encompasses many different practices

14. Things that could be better
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STORAGE
“I can’t store my material here because I
don't (…) want to have it on the one hard
drive on the computer I work at in the office
that only works if there’s an accessible server.”
“We want to put a lot of process material on
the website (…). What would be nice would be
INFORMAT
somewhere between the way we are using
Dropbox and the way that we use a website
ION
so that we can (…) move stuff into a public
RESOURC
folder and for that folder to be accessible (…).”
“…how to archive digital material (…) that’s something I don’t really have a strong handle
on.”
ES
“We have stacks of flip chart paper with all the different ideas from all the different things,
we have email stacks, we have stacks of evidence in bags that people brought, we have
about 8 hours of video recording that we are working on gradually.”

15.  Defiant Objects
non-standard research outputs in institutional repositories

16. Defiant Objects project
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Duration
Nov 2011 – Apr 2013
Outcomes
| typology of defiant objects
| enhanced metadata
| decision-making guide
| test environment
Project team
Tahani Nadim
Bekky Randall
Contributors
ULCC
IR staff and managers Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (public Opinion), 1991, Installation view at
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photo by David Heald
Information designer (tba)

17. Typology of defiant objects
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Data
From researchers, IR staff, IR contents What
makes a
Outcomes
Report, item types
difficult
Schedule and dissemination
Feb-May 2012; blog; mailing lists
deposit?

18. Enhanced metadata
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How best
Data
From IR contents, metadata schemas
to describe
Outcomes
Revised metadata provisions; report
Schedule and dissemination
Nov 11-Oct 2012; blog; mailing lists
defiant
objects?

19. Decision-making guide
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Data
From Literature Review,
Environmental Assessment,
existing guides, designers
How to
Outcomes
Decision-making guide guide IR
Schedule and dissemination
May 12-Jan 13; blog; mailing lists staff
through
deposit?

20. Test environment
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Data
From Literature Review,
Environmental Assessment,
Analysis & Modelling;
Embedding
in test
Decision-making guide
Outcomes
environ-
Test environment (Eprints) with
revised item types, workflows, metadata
fields, controlled vocabularies
Schedule and dissemination
Oct 12-Jan 13; blog; mailing lists ment

21. Provisional findings
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Work/image distinction
Confusion over ‘research output’
Versions & variants
Creator type
Poor metadata guidelines for multimedia items such as software
Descriptive and structural metadata often difficult to distinguish

22. Libraries and research data
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“Digital data as the new special collections?” Sayyed Choudhuri, Johns Hopkins
University
Research data challenges
-Archiving and managing data (curation)
-Storage and access
-Backup
-Preservation
-Sharing and re-use
-Metadata
What kind of interfaces can combine traditional cataloguing, indexing and organisational
skills with the demands of research data management?