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The Rococo Project – A case study

Process

Pre Project there is usually a technical plan1. Summary of digital

outputs and digital technologies

2. Technical methodology

3. Technical Support and Relevant experience

4. Preservation, Sustainability and use

Output Digital Output/Technology

Type Format Access

Project Website Dynamic website to access resources: twitter feed, films.

Website Drupal/Wordpress

Publicly Available

Digitisation of Physical Artists books (created in phase 2 of Project)

Digital images Image Files

PDF Publicly available on website

Memory retrieval test results (phase 3)

Research Data Data files .txt Publicly available through data repository

Measuring of Impact of tactile properties results (Phase 3)

Research Data Data Files .txt Publicly available through data repository

Eye tracking experiments

Research Data Data Files .txt Publicly Available through CenSes data repository

Report on data analysis of Memory Retrieval testing and Impact of Tactile properties(CenSes) (Phase 3)

Report on Research

Document PDF Publicly available through project website

Three Original Digital Artist Books (Phase 4)

Digital Book Digital files

Varied Publicly available through website where possible

Reader Behavoural Testing (UAL) (Phase 5)

Research Data Digital files

XML Publicly available through website

Interviews for Reader Behavioural Testing (up to 20 Hours) (Phase 5)

Recorded interviews

Digital audio files

OGG Publicly available through Research Data Repository UAL

Documentary Films of Artist processes (up to 20 hours) (Phase 2-5)

Film Digital Video Files

OGV Publicly available through Project website

Summary of Technical OutputsThe project will produce significant digital material which will include Digitisation of physical resources, individual digital creations by artists and software programmers in the form of artist books, and documentary films and interviews to be posted to the project website. In addition a quantity of research data will be produced through the behavioural and sensory analysis testing. Primary digital outputs are listed in the table below:

The Rococo ProjectConsiderations for data preparation (curation)

File formats (should be open source as much as possible for wider access and preservation issues)File sizes (decisions need to be made as to quality of digital files and compromises on file sizes and storage of data)Organisation (needs to be logical and cohesive, contextual)Labelling of individual files Legal considerations:

IPCopyrightData ProtectionRelease forms

Researchdata.arts.ac.ukThe repository

Data Curation Lifecycle

Courtesy of the DCC: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

Rococo: possibilities for data re-use

Data was used in a series of publications by the original research group in the early 1990s – possibility for re-examining original research questions

Data was re-used by a member of the group in a paper on a different topic:

Garner, Steve (2001). Comparing graphic actions between remote and proximal design teams. Design Studies, 22(4), pp. 365–376.

Data could be used for completely separate fields of research

Arts and design research data re-useResearch data can be used within and outside of the discipline in which it was created

Methodology and techniques of data gathering

Technology used in data gathering

Incidentally captured information, specific to time, place and creators of data, e.g. for Rococo:

Costume designRegional AccentsBiographical information

MetadataWhat is metadata?

Data about data

Description, Tagging

Repository has both free-text and controlled (dropdown style) metadata fields

Information about the collection and about each file

Why is metadata for research data important

Determines how researchers can find, access and understand the data.

What is the data (content, format, etc.)

How can your data be used (rights, permissions, etc.)

Importance of good metadata enshrined in RCUK Data principles:

“To enable research data to be discoverable and effectively re-used by others, sufficient metadata should be recorded and made openly available to enable other researchers to understand the research and re-use potential of the data.”

(http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/)