Laura Molloy
University of Glasgow, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Researcher (affiliate)
Hello. I'm a researcher interested in visual art, and a visual artist interested in research. I'm currently working on a doctoral project at University of Oxford, investigating how visual artists' workflows look, and how they use digital information in their practice. I've been doing a lot of qualitative interviewing over the last year or so, then seeing how (if) the results map to models of good practice like the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model, OAIS, etc. This project is funded by DACS and the ESRC. My departments at Oxford are the Oxford Internet Institute and the Ruskin School of Art.
If you have any opinions, questions or feedback about work in this field, please email me at laura.molloy AT rsa.ox.ac.uk. I'm also on Twitter @LM_HATII.
This builds on a research approach I developed in my last project, when interviewing artists working in time-based and live forms to find out how they preserve the traces of their work, and how they find, access and use digital information in their creative processes.
I used to work for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), mainly around the development of skills and knowledge for digital curation, and ways to make data reuse easier. I'm interested in how we incentivise and encourage researchers, research support professionals, information-related people and everyone else in the sustainable creation, management, dissemination and use of data. I'm particularly interested in how we can build and sustain a fair, intelligent and ethical global infrastructure for doing this, as current models seem to be tediously corrupted.
I coordinated Jisc's pilot work on development of a research data discovery service, in collaboration with nine UK universities and a number of discipline-specific data centres. This work is narrated here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/projects/research-data-registry-pilot.
I led work on the EC-funded DigCurV project (Digital Curation Vocational Education Europe)'s curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation in the cultural heritage sector (galleries, museums, libraries, archives).
I was an Evidence Gatherer for the JISC Managing Research Data programme 2011-13 ('JISC MRD02'), one of a team of three covering the activity of the programme across the UK. We did various things: see our blog at http://mrdevidence.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ for more information.
I was a member of the JISC-funded 'Incremental' project team, drawing together data management resources for researchers who are not records management specialists (i.e. almost everyone.) We aimed to reposition existing guidance in a way that is meaningful to researchers of all disciplines, without remaking stuff or being patronising.
'Incremental' blog is at http://incrementalproject.wordpress.com/.
I was a member of the DaMSSI (Data Management Skills Support Initiative) team, a support initiative for the JISC Managing Research Data 01 programme's strand of research data management training materials projects. We were funded by the JISC and RIN and worked in collaboration with the DCC, overseen by the RIN Information-Handling Working Group. We worked with the Vitae Researcher Development Framework and the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy models, and supported the JISC MRD01 training projects to use the models and give feedback on them.
I used to work on the EU-funded project, Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services), a four-year digital preservation project co-funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. The project ran from 2006 – 2010 and built practical tools and services to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets.
I tweet about my research @LM_HATII.
Supervisors: Dr Eric T Meyer and Dr Anthony Gardner
Address: Oxford Internet Institute, 41 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
If you have any opinions, questions or feedback about work in this field, please email me at laura.molloy AT rsa.ox.ac.uk. I'm also on Twitter @LM_HATII.
This builds on a research approach I developed in my last project, when interviewing artists working in time-based and live forms to find out how they preserve the traces of their work, and how they find, access and use digital information in their creative processes.
I used to work for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), mainly around the development of skills and knowledge for digital curation, and ways to make data reuse easier. I'm interested in how we incentivise and encourage researchers, research support professionals, information-related people and everyone else in the sustainable creation, management, dissemination and use of data. I'm particularly interested in how we can build and sustain a fair, intelligent and ethical global infrastructure for doing this, as current models seem to be tediously corrupted.
I coordinated Jisc's pilot work on development of a research data discovery service, in collaboration with nine UK universities and a number of discipline-specific data centres. This work is narrated here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/projects/research-data-registry-pilot.
I led work on the EC-funded DigCurV project (Digital Curation Vocational Education Europe)'s curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation in the cultural heritage sector (galleries, museums, libraries, archives).
I was an Evidence Gatherer for the JISC Managing Research Data programme 2011-13 ('JISC MRD02'), one of a team of three covering the activity of the programme across the UK. We did various things: see our blog at http://mrdevidence.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ for more information.
I was a member of the JISC-funded 'Incremental' project team, drawing together data management resources for researchers who are not records management specialists (i.e. almost everyone.) We aimed to reposition existing guidance in a way that is meaningful to researchers of all disciplines, without remaking stuff or being patronising.
'Incremental' blog is at http://incrementalproject.wordpress.com/.
I was a member of the DaMSSI (Data Management Skills Support Initiative) team, a support initiative for the JISC Managing Research Data 01 programme's strand of research data management training materials projects. We were funded by the JISC and RIN and worked in collaboration with the DCC, overseen by the RIN Information-Handling Working Group. We worked with the Vitae Researcher Development Framework and the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy models, and supported the JISC MRD01 training projects to use the models and give feedback on them.
I used to work on the EU-funded project, Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services), a four-year digital preservation project co-funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. The project ran from 2006 – 2010 and built practical tools and services to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets.
I tweet about my research @LM_HATII.
Supervisors: Dr Eric T Meyer and Dr Anthony Gardner
Address: Oxford Internet Institute, 41 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
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DigCurV synthesised a variety of established skills and competence models in the digital curation and LIS sectors with expertise from digital curation professionals, in order to develop a new Curriculum Framework. The resulting Framework provides a common language and helps define the skills, knowledge and abilities that are necessary for the development of digital curation training; for benchmarking existing programmes; and for promoting the continuing production, improvement and refinement of digital curation training programmes.
This paper describes the salient points of this work, including how the project team conducted the research necessary to develop the Framework, the structure of the Framework, the processes used to validate the Framework, and three ‘lenses’ onto the Framework. The paper also provides suggestions as to how the Framework might be used, including a description of potential audiences and purposes.
Initially we will introduce participants to the role of data management planning to open up dialogue between researchers and library services to ensure potentially valuable research data are managed appropriately and made available for reuse where feasible. DMPs provide institutions with valuable insights into the scale of their data holdings, highlight any ethical and legal requirements that need to be met, and enable planning for dissemination and reuse. We will also introduce the DCC’s DMPonline, a tool to help researchers write DMPs, which can be customised by institutions and integrated with other systems to simplify and enhance the management and reuse of data.
In the second part of the presentation we will focus on making selected research data more visible for reuse and explore the potential value of local and national research data registries. In particular we will highlight the Jisc-funded RDRDS pilot to establish a UK national service that aggregates metadata relating to data collections held in research institutions and subject data centres. The session will conclude by exploring some of the opportunities we may collaboratively explore in facilitating the management, aggregation and reuse of research data.
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10 (1). pp. 7-20. ISSN 1479-4713 (doi:10.1080/14794713.2014.912496)
DigCurV synthesised a variety of established skills and competence models in the digital curation and LIS sectors with expertise from digital curation professionals, in order to develop a new Curriculum Framework. The resulting Framework provides a common language and helps define the skills, knowledge and abilities that are necessary for the development of digital curation training; for benchmarking existing programmes; and for promoting the continuing production, improvement and refinement of digital curation training programmes.
This paper describes the salient points of this work, including how the project team conducted the research necessary to develop the Framework, the structure of the Framework, the processes used to validate the Framework, and three ‘lenses’ onto the Framework. The paper also provides suggestions as to how the Framework might be used, including a description of potential audiences and purposes.
Initially we will introduce participants to the role of data management planning to open up dialogue between researchers and library services to ensure potentially valuable research data are managed appropriately and made available for reuse where feasible. DMPs provide institutions with valuable insights into the scale of their data holdings, highlight any ethical and legal requirements that need to be met, and enable planning for dissemination and reuse. We will also introduce the DCC’s DMPonline, a tool to help researchers write DMPs, which can be customised by institutions and integrated with other systems to simplify and enhance the management and reuse of data.
In the second part of the presentation we will focus on making selected research data more visible for reuse and explore the potential value of local and national research data registries. In particular we will highlight the Jisc-funded RDRDS pilot to establish a UK national service that aggregates metadata relating to data collections held in research institutions and subject data centres. The session will conclude by exploring some of the opportunities we may collaboratively explore in facilitating the management, aggregation and reuse of research data.
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10 (1). pp. 7-20. ISSN 1479-4713 (doi:10.1080/14794713.2014.912496)