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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Question and answer session 2 : Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles
Recording of the Question and Answer discussion from Session 2: Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles.Boruta, Luc ; Derrick, Gemma ; Boddington, Anne ; Adams, Helen
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Best of both: combining arts and science to measure the benefits of online culture for mental health in young people
An inter-disciplinary project undertaken by museum and psychiatry staff at the University of Oxford in 2020 set out to find out if online cultural content could be effective against common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The O-ACE (Online Active Community Engagement) project used traditional arts engagement research...Adams, Helen
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Making a Difference and 'Partnering for Impact'
This presentation will reflect on impact as defined in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and that forms a key element of the current dual funding structure of research for Higher Education Institutions. Although impact in its broadest sense extends beyond research, it is most prominently highlighted in the REF as...Boddington, Anne
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Assessing the broader value of research culture: The hidden REF experience
The hidden REF was an experiment to counteract existing evaluation methods. UK REF Impact Case Studies have a narrative linearity which fails to appreciate the amazing plethora of interactions, individuals and different types of output that are part of our research culture. The hidden REF exercise aims to celebrate the...Derrick, Gemma
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Impact cannot be measured, and other sad half-truths about impact measurement
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. In this talk, I look at bringing algorithmic fairness to impact measurement, from web-scale attention tracking to computer-assisted data story-telling. Drawing on my experience with altmetrics, I argue that many proxies for impact correlate not...Boruta, Luc
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Increasing engagement through Towards a National Collection
At the centre of the £18.9m research development programme Towards a National Collection is the aim to increase engagement with the cultural heritage collections of the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the programme is working to link collections and encourage cross-searching of multiple collection types, to...Bailey, Rebecca
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
Users understand OpenGLAM. Do GLAMs?
For more than a decade, a dedicated bunch of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums [GLAM] around the world have been advocating for opening up cultural heritage collections while pushing for openness in their own institutions. Today, more than 1,200 GLAMs worldwide feature open access to their digitised assets – making...Sanderhoff, Merete
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
The Ethics of Open Access in the Endangered Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme (also known as EAP) gives funding to people running projects to digitise and preserve archival materials at risk of destruction. These can date from any time before the middle of the twentieth century, and from most parts of the world except Europe and North America. The...Schaik, Sam van
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2021
Conference paper (unpublished)
What does the future hold for "open" and cultural heritage institutions?
GLAMs’ [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums] public interest mission is squarely aligned with the open access ethos. Indeed, making their collections as openly accessible, shareable, and reusable as possible is the best way for GLAMs to achieve their mission as they digitize and offer their collections online. But only a...Vézina, Brigitte