Portal Partner Meeting 2025

Held at Šaloun Studio - AVU, The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, this year’s Portal Partner Meeting brought together Portal Partners, contributors from across the Research Catalogue (RC), the RC Managing Team, and SAR to share RC developments, tools, strategies and experiences.
 

Day 1 focused on RC structural tools, accessibility, and the Exposition Field Guide, followed by a workshop exploring how to organise portal pages, managing unpublished material, and engaging audiences. Then the RC Librarians’ Group shared updates addressing metadata, DOIs, and categorisation standards. Highlights included a presentation by the 2024 RC Prize winner Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Scharin Fragmente 2, and presentations on the new Media Transcoder, framework transfers, and ongoing platform redesigns by Casper Schipper and Danielle Pozzi (RC Managing Team). The day ended with collaborative sessions on portal challenges and opportunities.
 

Day 2 sessions, co-hosted with the COST Action Artistic Intelligence WG3, explored the RC’s role in collective knowledge-making, including a presentation by Andre Guidi and Danielle Pozzi on KOBI - an AI-driven research platform designed to build connections across diverse fields and stimulate expansive, creative inquiry - combining collectively authoring an RC Exposition and AI semantic mapping. Jonas Hovden Sjøvaag then showcased a use of automatic data (in the form of a spreadsheet) to RC exposition conversion.  The day concluded with in-depth reflections on referencing and research focus in three selected RC expositions.
 

The annual gathering of portal partners serves as a key meeting point for collaboration, where shared expertise, practical exchange, and strategic dialogue drive meaningful progress in the development, accessibility, and impact of the Research Catalogue as a platform for artistic research—and we deeply appreciate the time, energy, and commitment each partner brings to making this collective effort possible.