This one day conference, held at the RIBA in London, marked the culmination of the Kultivate Project, which had looked at ways in which arts research could be better accomodated and included in institutional repositories, and had developed the EPrints Kultur plugin to help adapt repositories accordingly.
The keynote presentation, given by Kerstin Mey from the University for the Creative Arts, discussed What is Artistic Research?. Kerstin spoke about practice based/led research, with a firm methodological mode, and also arts research/art as research, highlighting both the proximity and difference to scientific research. Art as research can suggest it does not require theoretical documentation, explanation and contextualisation, however research in the arts is permeated by a notion of 'dialogue' - fuid, changing, conversation. The subject of REF impact was also discussed, and it was concluded that art enquiry needs to be reflected on, and therefore more precise articulations of impact are required by the REF.
The Kultivate project was then summed up by Leigh Garrett of VADS, and it was announced that the environmental analysis, which identifies barriers which inhibit deposit, will be published in Ariadne in due course.
Monday, 25 July 2011
Liber Conference - Barcelona, 29th June - 1st July 2011
This was Liber (The Institute of European Research Libraries)'s 40th Annual Conference, and it was held in the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. The theme of the conference was 'Getting Europe Ready for 2020: The Library's Role in Research, Education and Society' and accordingly there were a variety of talks on digitisation, institutional repositories and Open Access, web 2.0 and mobile technologies as well as many other innovative ways in which libraries around Europe (and beyond) are changing and improving their services.
My main reason for going was to present our poster on 'Open Access at Salford - Where next?'. All posters were displayed in the lunch hall throughout the conference, and poster presenters each gave a one minute 'poster madness' presentation in the main auditorium.
Whilst not at my poster, I was able to attend a number of talks during the 3 day conference. As there were so many talks and presentations, I have chosen to summarise a selection below. However full details and slides from all presentations can be found at http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/LIBER2011/
My main reason for going was to present our poster on 'Open Access at Salford - Where next?'. All posters were displayed in the lunch hall throughout the conference, and poster presenters each gave a one minute 'poster madness' presentation in the main auditorium.
Whilst not at my poster, I was able to attend a number of talks during the 3 day conference. As there were so many talks and presentations, I have chosen to summarise a selection below. However full details and slides from all presentations can be found at http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/LIBER2011/
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