title: Research Weeks
creators: Peter May
abstract: Technology companies often run ‘hack weeks’ allowing staff to spend some time exploring new ideas, developing, learning, and collaborating on something of personal interest. The organizational incentive is to reap the benefits derived from allowing such freedom to work on a personal project. This practice has been used within the digital preservation domain before, the AQuA and SPRUCE projects for example, which brought together content holders and developers to quickly develop solutions to content challenges. Inspired by this, the digital preservation team at the British Library undertook a ‘research week’ to enable staff to focus on some digital preservation related work or training they have lacked core time to do; to create time for them to innovate. This poster aims to share our experience, share how we made it happen, and generally open up discussions on digital preservation research and development approaches within organizations.
keywords: research innovation hack week training