Research Data Management

Artwork is a prominent type of data in ABR that is commonly used as content for analysis and interpretation. Artworks that exist as, or are documented in, image, audio, video, text, and other types of digital files facilitate research data management. The same applies to preparatory, supplemental, and discarded artworks made in the creation of a principal one. Research findings you create in the form of artwork can be treated as data if you will make them available for researchers, artists, and/or the public to use as data. Information about artistic processes can also be data. Read more on artwork and artistic processes as data at Kultur II Group and Jisc.

Examples: Drawings, songs, poems, films, short stories, performances, interactive installations, and social experiences facilitated by artists are examples of data. Data on artistic processes can include documentation of techniques, stages, and contexts of artistic creation, and the physical materials (e.g., paints, textiles, found objects) and tools (e.g., pencils, the body, musical instruments) used to create artwork. Other types of data are audio recordings of interviews, transcripts, photographs, videos, field notes, historical documents, social media posts, statistical spreadsheets, and computer code.

Credit: Lévesque, Michel, & Doiron, James. (2021). Data Management Plan Template: Arts-Based Research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571671