1. The Timescapes Archive
Libby Bishop
University of Leeds/University of Essex
Research Methods Festival
St Catherine’s College, 30 June 2008
Can create multiple types of inputs – categorised by file format – here we have text and images, and will expand to audio and video.

2. Timescapes is about… Building an archive of QLL data:
400+ participants, 5+ years, multiple interactions
5000+ objects
500+ GB of data

3. Information and Data Flows among Researchers, the Timescapes Repository, and the UK Data Archive
Rights and data manage-ment, metadata standards
Research
Projects
Strands
Multimedia
data and
metadata
created
(SIP*)
Affiliates and Associates
Authorised Users
Public
Data, metadata, contextual info available to search
(DIP*)
Virtual catalogue record-pointer to resources held at UoL
Rights and data management, metadata standards
Timescapes data preserved (AIP*)
Timescapes Repository
Disaggregated preservation service
2.Standards-compliant data prepared for preservation
*SIP-Submission Information Package
*AIP-Archival Information Package
*DIP-Dissemination Information Package
Data producers and users
Data
Information
Data users

4. Distinctive features of Timescapes
Characteristics of the materials deposited
Data and documentation, not just outputs
Qualitative, including image, audio, video
Sensitive content, complex rights management
Longitudinal, dynamic
Synchronous research, archive building
and sharing

6. After clicking on a sub section of timescapes, such as a project, you get a browse screen with profiles of all objects

7. Boolean searching – by fields, full text metadata only, and filtering if keywords provided.

8. Search returns 3 interviews done with men, in this case, one man interviewed at 3 points in time.