The Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly project hosted its workshop on 10 November at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick, disseminating its best practice guidelines on the digital preservation and dissemination of arts practice research outputs to colleagues in artistic practice, digital humanities, and data repositories.

We were delighted to be joined by Michelle Doran from NORF, Edie Davis from Research Ireland, and our keynote speaker, Florian Schneider, president of the Society for Artistic Research and director of the Institute for Creativity at University of Galway. The event was attended by 30 people, including researchers from Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, and Mary Immaculate College.

The project team, Helen Phelan, Edward Kearns, Jenny Roche, and Armin Straube, presented the project’s recommendations and led discussions on their implementation, receiving feedback from stakeholders which informed the final version of the best practice guidelines. Topics discussed included institutional repositories, licencing, ethics, project planning, FAIR, recommended files, the importance of persistent identifiers like DOIs, and the project’s recommendation of an artistic statement as a central document which links to other media in a repository associated with the same creative output. This workshop and the guidelines form two of the key deliverables for the project.