Galactic Interfaces: navigating the creative data universe

The poster takes its title from a piece of music in one of the datasets in the Research Data Leeds repository. Galactic Interfaces is a semi-improvised piece about interactions and contrasts; rather like developing a research data service. The poster will use the galactic theme to show how working with arts and humanities researchers has launched us from planet ‘EPSRC data compliance’ to boldly go where the research data service has not gone before. We use ‘Galactic Interfaces’ in research data training sessions to encourage researchers to step outside their own world and think creatively about their data and metadata. Our galactic journey has taken us into the Special Collections galaxy where we have been working on developing a common language so we can understand each other. We have a landing party visiting the digital humanities nebula and we’re launching a rescue mission for project web sites currently being drawn into a giant black hole.