[RNLD] ERA reporting of archive deposits as NTROs (in Australia)

[Linda Barwick]

Hi Mark
I don't believe that archival deposits fit comfortably within any of the current ERA NTRO categories. Did you have one in mind? 

Perhaps we could lobby the ARC to include archival deposits as a special subcategory of reports for future rounds, but I observe that so far they have been quite resistant to attempts to add or redefine categories.

Linda

On 5 Aug 2014, at 4:00 pm, Mark W. Post <markwpost at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear RNLDers,
> 
> In the current ERA reporting round, there seems to be an increase in 
> attention to Non-Traditional Research Output (NTRO). Here at UNE, we're 
> trying to work out how archive deposits (corpora of language-documentary 
> materials) can be assessed in the NTRO context, and, ultimately, 
> effectively weighted in relation to TROs. In addition to general 
> problems of equivalence, one of the concerns is the fact that deposits 
> often grow in scale and richness over time, whereas there might be only 
> one recognizable submission/acceptance "event".
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this, or is anyone currently preparing 
> an NTRO submission along these lines for the current ERA round?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark