Practice research as a lens to enable a future with a FAIRer, more equitable scholarly research landscape

At OR2023 the Practice Research Voices and Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Education project findings (10.5281/zenodo.8091553) highlighted the limitations of the current repositories landscape and open standards to enable Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) practice research. The teams have joined together, developed a metadata standard for practice research, engaged with discipline and open standards communities, published findings, and are working towards setting up a Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group.

Global engagement has demonstrated the need to articulate what practice research is and the benefits of using this lens to go beyond the assumption that 'non-traditional research outputs' are defined by their format and merely supplementary.

This presentation will discuss opportunities for open and research data repositories to: (1) develop community owned open infrastructure working in co-design with discipline communities; (2) make the research process visible as it is developed; (3) implement accessibility, user interface and user experience best practice; (4) capture a more inclusive range of contributors (5) enable re-use that respects rights owners and provenance and (6) act as a space to adopt and inform changes to open standards and influence a more nuanced aligned strategy and policy landscape and initiatives.