Collaborative session notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJkFECh6tfufiLXFCI4ERZk9YRaxY4aK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104358842683409363823&rtpof=true&sd=true

The objectives of this meeting are to finalise the details for an application to start an NTROs Interest Group.

1. Identify further interested people who represent, sit within, and/or support these communities
2. Provide a space for two-way conversations to take place to that help identify relevant co-design approaches and pathways to community-driven implementation
3. Finalise a proposal and case statement for a NTROs Interest Group
4. A preliminary exercise of mapping and prioritisation of potential focus areas
5. Consolidate connections with:
   1. Aligned RDA Groups 
   2. Open and community infrastructure providers (e.g. DataCite, Open Alex, Crossref, RAiD)
   3. Research data and output repositories, digital preservation and software management
   4. Discipline/community led consortia and projects that exist within NTRO rich communities

6. To submit a proposal to set up an NTROs Interest Group immediately after P24 with a view to running the first official meeting at P25 in Brisbane.

*Just noting the plan to set up an Interest Group as suggested by the RDA team.

Meeting Agenda 

1. Introductions [10 mins] including update from previous two BoF sessions (see below)
2. Finalising a proposal and case statement including mapping of focus areas and carrying out a refinement and prioritisation exercise [Link to Draft Statement of Work] [45 mins]
3. Brainstorm connections with [15 mins]:
   1. Aligned RDA Groups 
   2. Open and community infrastructure providers (e.g. DataCite, Open Alex, Crossref, RAiD)
   3. Research data and output repositories, digital preservation and and software management
   4. Discipline/community led consortia and projects that exist within NTRO rich communities
4. Agree preliminary draft work plan and next steps [20 mins]

Previous BoF sessions at P22 and P23

The P22 BoF session took a ‘Non Traditional Research Outputs’ (NTROs) approach and discussed the need:

• to consider NTROs and how the PR Voices framework (based on the PR Voices and SPARKLE projects) were also relevant to areas e.g. participatory action research.
• for documentation, skills development and training.
• to make the case for the benefits for engaging with and becoming part of the community/conversations
• to ensuring that the correct objects and outputs and contributors are defined, are part of and have parity in the global information ‘space’ / FAIR ≠ Open / different but related to ‘collections’
• to look outside the current standards space for other places / examples where these things have already been characterised (e.g. legal, cultural work) i.e. not starting from scratch

The P23 BoF session took a ‘Creative, Visual and Performing Arts’ approach to discuss the management of data and process – a slightly different approach to P22 and built on discussions at PIDFest 2024. It was agreed that an Interest Group (IG) focussed on data, methods, and processes in creative, visual, and performing arts should be initiated, building momentum and fostering international sector engagement. Participants shared strategies and developed a roadmap to advance the recognition and effective management of data within these specific art forms, with key milestones set for 2025:

1. Establishing a dedicated Interest Group
2. Implementing an action plan: drafting a case statement (January 2025), submitting an IG proposal (April 2025), and holding the first meeting at P25
3. Building international partnerships for ongoing collaboration

This BoF highlighted further areas where open standards and tools could be extended/adopted, and a representative from Leiden University in the Netherlands  has now joined as Co-Chair of the proposed IG. expressing support for continued engagement and a subsequent offer to act as co-Chair of an RDA IG focused on NTROs.  We continue to work on diversifying our geographic representation which will be enabled by the Draft Statement of Work and focussed conversations outside the Plenary. While creative and performing arts provide valuable perspectives on challenges unique to non-traditional research outputs, the organizers recognize that using “NTRO” will encourage wider participation from social and natural sciences where such outputs are also significant.

P23 (San Jose) session Proposal for IG: Data, process and NTRO in the creative and performing arts and link to collaborative notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LtG9ndd2PMBWuWLDZq-lI-vUr3mBoke4/edit

P22 (virtual) session NTRO gaggle boosting non text support through experiential and collaborative effort and link to collaborative notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5mRRXDF3MzCEWzKF1AJPcsY67lR6JB-EegyxAG-wPM/edit?usp=drive_link

• https://github.com/research-technologies/prvoices_schema/blob/main/portfolio.svg
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/07/02/a-doi-is-not-enough-can-practice-research-be-captured-by-libraries-and-archives/
• https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/prvoices/dissemination-activities/

• https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/203045/

• https://openknowledge.community/projects/increasing-the-visibility-of-ntros-2021-2022/
• https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2022/03/scoping-the-connections-between-trusted-arts-and-humanities-data-repositories.html
• https://zenodo.org/records/6957236