Research Data Management, Interview with Sally Chambers, DARIAH-BE (PARTHENOS Training Video)
Channel: Parthenos Project
Date: 2019-02-12

As national coordinator of the Belgian DARIAH branch (DARIAH-BE) and digital research coordinator of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities (Ghent University) Sally reflects on how to bring digital enabled research into the faculties of Arts and Philosophy and beyond and how to link this to research infrastructures and research data management.

Chapters Video Sally Chambers: 
00:00-00:19 Can you please introduce yourself in a few word?
00:20-00:40 Which infrastructure are you involved in?
00:40-03:27 How do you define outreach and impact? 
In this section Sally underlines the role of good data management practices in terms of impact. She uses as an example from her faculty a dictionary of Brabant as a huge longitudinal study and valuable resource which has to be made sustainable. 
03:27-08:00 How do research infrastructures enhance the impact for individual researchers? 
Sally exemplifies the power of networks and interdisciplinary collaborations that are provided by research infrastructures on European and local scale using the examples of a researcher on parliamentary records and the cooperation of Ghent University with the Ghent Public Library De Krook. She also stresses the value of data management trainings for individual researchers in the Arts and Humanities.
08:00-09:26 How do research infrastructures benefit from researchers in terms of outreach? 
One important aspect Sally describes in this chapter is word of mouth by the community: the community is what the research infrastructure is about! 
09:26-11:12 What alternatives and barriers are there to reach goals in terms of outreach and impact? 
Sally describes the time factor and the assessment criteria for researchers as key barriers. Good examples for public outreach are collaborations such as with the Ghent Public Library De Krook.

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