Frequently asked questions
How can I use the Research Catalogue (RC) to publish my research?
- You will have to register an account with the RC, for which you will need to fill in, print and send the License Letter Agreement to us using the normal mail. You will need to enclose a proof of identity with this letter (photocopy of identity card, passport or driving license).
- Upon receipt and after you identity has been confirmed your RC account will be created, and you will receive notification about this.
- You can now log on and use the RC.
Why does the RC require such a complex registration process?
- We need proof of identity and a signed License Letter Agreement to deliver the best possible protection against copyright infringements that may happen if the RC allowed anonymous uploads.
What do I do if I discover that somebody has used material for which I hold the copyright?
- We have a policy for such cases. Please click on 'Copyright Concerns' and report your complaint.
Who has developed and who owns the RC?
- The RC has been developed as part of the Artistic Research Catalogue (ARC) project.
- This particular instance of the Research Catalogue software is owned and maintained by Society for Artistic Research (SAR).
- The RC software is open source
Does a RC user need to be member of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)?
Is there an upload limit?
- The basic use of the RC is free of charge and financed through the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).
What is the relationship between the RC and the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)?
- Submissions to JAR need to be made using the RC.
- When an exposition is ready to be published, you can submit the exposition for review to JAR.
- You can also choose to publish it straight away in the RC allowing your exposition be searched for within the RC or linked to by other websites (such as your own or your institutional repository).
- Note: once an exposition is published (within or outside of JAR), it cannot be further worked upon or edited.
What is a research exposition?
- Expositions are comparable to what 'articles' are in other journal contexts.
- In the RC an exposition is meant to expose practice as research. This means that a simple documentation of works may be insufficient.
- Placing your multi-media data on a 'weave' (the RC name for a page) allows creating visual or textual interconnections through which research can be exposed.
- Data held in the public repository ('works’) can be re-used within expositions; data held in the private repository ('simple media') can only be used in the context of the exposition for which this data has been uploaded.
What media are supported?
- html text
- pdf documents
- jpeg, png, psd, tga, tiff, gif, bmp image file type
- ogg, wav, mov, au, mp4 audio container formats; mp2, mp3, aac, pcm a-law, flac audio codec formats
- avi, mov, mp4, mpg video container formats; dv1394, h.264, mpeg2, mpeg1, mjepeg video codec formats
- Note: Files are transcoded during upload, minor loss of quality may be experienced.
Will there be more help provided for the creation of expositions?
- We provide a Research Catalogue introduction video
- You can also visit the online Research Catalogue tutorial for extended help
How to cite a research exposition?
- Expositions have stable URLs that can be used for citation purposes.
- You can cite a complete exposition but you can also cite a specific position of an exposition, i.e. the particular place on the page (x-y coordinate) you want to reference.
- To do this, navigate to the position on the page and click on the downward arrow in front of the exposition title in the gray menu bar that appears when the mouse is moved toward to top of your browser window. A reference will appear that you can copy and paste into other contexts.
- Note: the x and y coordinates in that URL determine the upper left corner window position of the browser window.