Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs and Processes (Infra4NTROs) Posts

Community Feedback Needed How do we make research infrastructure work for creative practice, multimodal research, and community-engaged scholarship? The Research Data Alliance Europe is reviewing our (Jenny Evans, Andrew S. Hoffman 🟥🍉, Robin Burgess, myself) proposal for an "Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs" Interest Group, and we need your input. Traditional research infrastructure was built around journal articles and datasets. But what about performance documentation, practice research portfolios, community-engaged scholarship, creative installations, and collaborative knowledge products? These outputs often fall through infrastructure gaps or get forced into categories that don't reflect their actual nature. We've been working on this challenge through research and RDA community engagement over many years. Now we're seeking feedback on our response to technical review before final submission. Why this matters: → Researchers in creative fields deserve infrastructure that reflects their ways of working → Repository managers need guidance for complex, multimodal outputs → Current citation and attribution models don't handle collaborative creative processes well → FAIR principles need adaptation for outputs that can't always be "open" but should be findable and reusable We want to hear from: -Repository developers and managers -Researchers working with practice-based methodologies -Digital preservation specialists -Anyone interested in inclusive research infrastructure -Standards and policy communities Read our draft response and add comments: https://lnkd.in/ehckwsmM This is about more than just supporting creative research - it's about building infrastructure that recognizes the full spectrum of how knowledge is created and shared globally.