London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026: Open Research: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective
London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026: Open Research: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective
London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026: Open Research: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Perspective
Researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences create and/or collect a range of diverse processes and outputs, including so-called ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ research outputs (NTRO). The latter is often the main mechanism for sharing in some disciplines who use creative practice methods. In the first half of this session we will hear from two teams considering open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences; and from the team leading a national project to inform more inclusive research evaluation practices, and who are thinking about how these ‘NTRO-centric’ disciplines can inform this work. In the second half of the session we will hear from some of AHRC’s infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities (iDAH) data services and programmes about how they are supporting and enabling researchers to share their research data.
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Item type:Presentation, UKRN Special Interest Group in Arts Research: A Community Approach to Open Research in AHSS(2026-04-24) ;Jola, CorinneGonnet, HenryThis presentation includes a brief introduction to UKRN’s Special interest Group in Arts Research (SiG Art). SiG ART is a growing community of research practitioners and professional services staff involved in arts and interdisciplinary research across the UK. In arts research, knowledge is often embedded in process, interpretation, and storytelling, elements that have remained under-recognised in mainstream Open Science Research frameworks. We provide a space to share best practice, discuss challenges, and explore approaches to Open Research in a landscape often shaped by the sciences and so-called ‘traditional research outputs’. The presentation reflects on our activities over the past 12 months and beyond. We conclude by suggesting that arts research practices offer Open Research approaches that are relevant across disciplines, including STEM. The arts can thus actively contribute to shaping Open Research practices. We invite the audience to engage with us and contribute to this ongoing process.3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, LLDS: A National Repository for Literary and Linguistic Resources(2026-04-24)Bushnell, MeganThe Literary and Linguistic Data Service (LLDS) is a national repository for literary and linguistic resources. It hosts the Oxford Text Archive – one of the oldest collections of digital textual data in the world, made up over 70,000 texts, ranging from digital editions, to linguistic corpora, to text analysis tools that are predominantly free to access. The LLDS is also part of the CLARIN network, a European consortium with a focus on common language resources and technology infrastructure. Through CLARIN, items deposited with the LLDS are made visible and accessible to European scholars as well. This presentation provides a general introduction to the LLDS and the OTA and how it supports open research.4 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, Documenting diverse (open) research outputs: The MORPHSS typology of openness in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences(2026-04-24)Adams, JenniThis talk explores recent work by the Materialising Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) project to document and theorise open research practices across the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) - practices that are often neglected or overlooked within mainstream accounts of Open Science. In particular, we focus here on those practices relating to diverse research outputs, highlighting the range of materials and processes "opened up" by researchers in AHSS and positioning these within the typology of six forms of openness the MORPHSS project identifies across these disciplines. Regulatory and evaluatory frameworks around open research - whether at the level of funders, institutions, publishers and more - must, we suggest, adopt more flexible and inclusive approaches in order to achieve operationalisations of 'openness' that no longer marginalise and disadvantage AHSS researchers, including those using creative and participatory methodologies.1 16 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, The Hidden REF: highlighting the role of NTOs in research(2026-04-24)Hettrick, SimonThe Hidden REF shines a light on the people, processes, and outputs that quietly power research but rarely receive formal recognition. Moving beyond traditional metrics, it celebrates the full ecosystem of contribution, from software and datasets to technical expertise and professional support roles. Central to this is the growing importance of Non-Traditional Outputs (NTOs), which capture the real, often invisible, substance of how research is created, shared, and sustained. This talk explores how recognising NTOs not only reflects the true nature of modern research, but also helps build a more inclusive, accurate, and ultimately more excellent research system.3 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, Enact: a repository (and data service) for practice research(2026-04-24)Evans, JennyThis presentation will introduce Enact - a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to establish a data service for practice research - a bit about our history and how our approaches have been informed by two previous scoping project and the potential benefits for open research across disciplines, introduce the team and our plans in the coming months.4 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, Digital Skills for Open Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities(2026-04-24)Samaroudi, MyrsiniThe Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities Network (DISKAH) (www.diskah.org) aims to expand access to and use of Digital Research Infrastructures (DRI) for researchers, practitioners, and research technical professionals across Arts and Humanities disciplines. Skills in open science approaches, including data curation and management, reproducibility, and governance are key aspects. DISKAH supports the community in navigating and engaging with these approaches and infrastructures through a dedicated fellowship programme. Through their projects, the DISKAH fellows enhance their skills in developing digital research workflows, demonstrating the dependencies between DRI and data-driven research, and exploring how DRI can facilitate Open research practices. The fellowship programme includes dedicated co-designed training activities, opportunities for hands-on experimentation with DRI, technical support from digital Research Technical Professionals, and a range of events and networking opportunities for community collaboration. With the first round of DISKAH fellowships recently completed, fellows’ experiences have highlighted their personalised user journeys to navigate the DRI landscape, the need for use-cases which serve as examples of research workflows and open science practices, as well as the desire to collaborate with other disciplines within the UK and beyond to tackle common challenges.3 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Presentation, CCP-AHC: A research software community for the arts, humanities, and culture domain in the UK(2026-04-24)Bell, EamonnThe goal of the Collaborative Computational Project for Arts, Humanities, and Culture (CCP-AHC) is to support the sustainable and efficient development of software, pipelines, and workflows used by arts, humanities, and culture researchers who make use of UK-based digital research infrastructure (DRI), including high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced computing infrastructures supported by UKRI. It will do so by disseminating and implementing the Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) model that has successfully been used by many other scientific software communities over the past several decades, with the support of the national CoSeC programme at STFC. There is a special emphasis on ensuring that research software developed by this community makes the best use of large-scale compute infrastructures supported by public funding. This includes existing and future high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced computing infrastructures supported by UKRI, as well as those run by UK-based HEIs and other research organisations eligible for UKRI funding. In our first year, we brought together key stakeholders in the area, including RSEs and other dRTPs supporting computationally intensive research in arts, humanities, and culture. In the second year, we will use RSE and computational scientist resource within the project to produce a portfolio of codes, pipelines, and workflows for adoption by the project.1 5
