Composing for the non-text infrastructure dance-NISO Plus

Description

In this session we will examine the challenges facing scholarly communities whose main method of communication is not the written article but some other form of output.



How do we ensure that the rich metadata, functionality and narratives built into institutional and other tailored platforms can expose and transmit that information to the wider academy and global registries, enabling discovery, access and inquiry, without loss of detail, classification of the work as “OTHER” and downstream degradation of the richness of the data first created?



We will work together, using case studies and exemplars from the recent UK REF and attendees to examine where issues and challenges might arise, who the stakeholders in the processes are, and how we might best leverage the collective to initiate change. Where further investigations / developments are needed, these will be recorded and reported following the session.