CARMA: Community Archive and Repository for Multimodal and Artistic Research

CARMA is a one year collaborative research project at Leiden University that aims to create a ‘living laboratory’ as a venue for the exchange and integration of diverse knowledge and user needs from the social sciences, humanities and arts research communities together with those from research data management, open research, and science communications.

The project aims to improve the visibility of NTROs (non-traditional research data and output), such as films, sound recordings, dance performances and other medium that is generally less visible in digital scholarly records.

The 12-month collaborative project will involve researchers, digital scholar librarians and data management experts from the Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University Library at Leiden University. Together with a software developer, the group will aim to develop a small-scale, community-driven resource to allow for researchers to more visibly catalogue (records of) NTROs, with the possibility of possibly integrating these into Leiden’s existing research information service in the future.

The project will begin in early 2025.

CARMA is supported by the Leiden University Kiem Grants

Participants

Andrew Hoffman (FSW/CWTS/CADS)
Mark Westmoreland (FSW/CADS/ReCNTR)
Francesco Ragazzi (FSW/PoWe/ReCNTR)
Yasmin Ismail (FSW/CADS/ReCNTR)
Inaya Basu (FGW/LUCAS/ReCNTR)
Cristiana Strava (FGW/LIAS/ReCNTR)
Erik Viskil (FGW/ACPA/ReCNTR)
John Boy (FSW/CADS)
Rodrigo Ochigame (FSW/CADS)
Katie Hudson (FSW/PoWe [RDM] )
Rutger de Jong (UBL [ORI/SCI] )
Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner (FSW/CWTS [SCI] )
Peter Verhaar (FGW/LUCAS & UBL [SCI])
Céline Richard (FSW [RDM])
Myrte Vos (FGW [RDM])