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

[Mark W. Post]

Hi Linda,

We were planning to go with the category "Curated or Produced 
Substantial Public Exhibitions and Events" under the subcategory "Web 
based exhibition". There is also an "Other" subcategory (p. 7 of the ERA 
2015 Fact Sheet 02). Our local ERA person thinks this should work for an 
ELAR deposit, for example, but it is a bit of an experiment...

Cheers
Mark

On 5/08/2014 4:43 PM, Linda Barwick wrote:
> 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