NTRO Gaggle – Boosting non text support through experiential and collaborative effort

12 FEB 2024

Collaborative session notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5mRRXDF3MzCEWzKF1AJPcsY67lR6JB-EegyxAG-wPM/edit?usp=drive_link

Submitted by Adam Vials Moore

Meeting objectives:

Learning from communities that create ‘non-traditional’ or ‘non-text’ process and products (rather than simply ‘outputs’)
Sharing outcomes and experiences from projects supporting those communities such as the PR Voices project of the organisers
After learning and sharing, questioning: Discussions on Standards, Implications of supporting NTRO, identifying relevant work and communities
Finishing with an action plan, perhaps a new WG identified

Meeting agenda:

Introduction and overview
Scene setting – sharing of experiences:
- Overview of the PR Voices Project as an exemplar, including introducing the PR Voices framework
- Experiences of other attendees
  - learning from communities creating NTRO
  - learning from creating support for NTRO
- Putting co-design with community at the centre – collecting experiences on co-design and community work
The need to further develop open standards
- Discussions on areas of recent activity
- Identifying areas / schema / platforms to influence & prioritize
- Transparent access; open where possible
Development of action plan
Discussion on possibility of RDA WG – links to existing FAIR / PID / Process etc groups
Final comments & close

Type of Meeting:

Working meeting

Short introduction describing any previous activities:

Globally, there are many research communities that create ‘non-traditional’ or ‘non-text’ process and products (rather than simply ‘outputs’) – typically referred to as NTRO.

The BoF organisers ran PR Voices, a scoping project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK between January and July 2022. The project worked with the UK practice research community to coproduce recommendations for NTRO to achieve parity amongst research products. This built on research and communities formed over many years (see related work) and international discussions and links.

This session will bring together these varied national / international communities; those producing similar outputs and those creating infrastructure to support them, as well as interested parties, to share experiences and discuss potential next steps within the RDA context.

How do we move the international capture, storage, discovery, open standards landscape to give this research parity (rather than continue to be considered the unspecified OTHER)?

What are the implications of

process AND product, changing over time
the supporting infrastructure supporting this modality
in response infrastructure becoming an interactive ‘scribe on the side’
the loss of retrospective archive and mutability as “standard”

for the RDA community? (e.g in terms of FAIR, PIDs, representing lifecycles and the associated tools, preservation, etc etc)

How do we influence conversations around ‘open science’ to respect all contributors to research – so that there is transparent access and open where possible – rather than assuming all should be completely open?

BoF applicant serving as contact person:

Adam Vials Moore

Additional links to informative material:

PR Voices Project