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Jenny Evans

My current role is to lead the development of systems, services and support for researchers and doctoral students, putting the user experience at the centre of any support we provide and making systems interoperable wherever possible.

One key area of interest is how we better support practice-based researchers (and capture, archive and make their research discoverable). We have been developing a repository at Westminster that is able to capture this 'non-text' research, its documentation while recognising that it is a dynamic collection that needs updating. Now that we are capturing this content in our repository we are now looking at how we might enable existing standards (such as Datacite and ORCID) work in a more useful way for this community and how to work with the international community to update schema for these outputs. Please do get in touch if this is of interest to you!

See: https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q9x2v/transforming-the-university-of-westminster-repository to find out more about the work we've done so far!

Interest Group

Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs and Processes (Infra4NTROs)

Co-Chair
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Jenny Evans, Andrew S. Hoffman, Robin Burgess, Adam Vials Moore
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
Non-Traditional Research Outputs and processes are not well described within current information standards which reflect a research reward and recognition system that assumes a sole, often textual bas...
Interest Group

Active Data Management Plans IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): David Giaretta, Kevin Ashley, Tomasz Miksa, Elli Papadopoulou, Maria Praetzellis
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...
Interest Group

Collections as Data IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Laura Molloy, Beth Knazook, Joan Murphy, Ingrid Mason
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
About This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientis...
Working Group

Common Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs)

Member
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Tomasz Miksa, Marek Suchánek, Becky Grady, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal, Diamantis Tziotzios, Peter Neish, Diana Sisu
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
This group will develop a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs). This API will provide a unified approach to accessing and managing...
Interest Group

Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group (CCI IG)

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Martina Stockhause, Graham Parton, Lesley Wyborn, Justin Buck, James Ayliffe, Shelley Stall, Jonathan Blythe
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
This Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group is focused on implementing the recommendations developed by the initial Complex Citation Working Group. This interest group includes a broad number ...
Interest Group

Evaluation of Research IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Amy Nurnberger, Carmel Wallis, Devika Madalli, Francoise Genova
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...
Interest Group

FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Xin Chen, Rainer Stotzka, Zachary Trautt, Maggie Hellström, Andreas Pfeil
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
Interest Group

Global Open Research Commons IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Andrew Treloar, Javier Lopez Albacete, Lautaro Matas, Mikiko Tanifuji, CJ Woodford
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) is on the increase. So called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons” provide a shared virtu...
Working Group

Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research Tools II (MaLDReTH II)

Member
Stage: WG Producing Deliverables
Chair(s): Halle Burns, Adam Vials Moore, Rory Macneil, Maria Praetzellis
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
The MaLDReTH II Working Group aims to advance and sustain the digital research tools landscape mapping initiative established by its predecessor. Building on the first community-sourced, systematicall...
Interest Group

Metadata IG

Member
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Alex Ball, Milan Ojsteršek, Stephen Richard
The Metadata IG will concern itself with all aspects of metadata for research data.  In particular, it will attempt to coordinate the efforts of the WGs concerned with metadata to produce a coherent ...