Our latest DART podcast interview contains a compelling and fascinating interview with Dr Marta Teperek, the Research Data Facilitator at Cambridge University Library’s Research Operations Office. She attended our May Web-Archiving 101 Course (featuring guest speakers Dr Peter Webster and Sara Day Thomson) and seemed to derive a lot of benefit from it. She even published a very positive blog post on the subject.

We thought it would be nice to hear her expand on her views. In the interview that follows, she describes a vibrant scene at Cambridge where websites and blogs – and indeed many other forms of Web 2.0, social media, and interactive web content – have a central role to play in the research data continuum. Far from being a “nice to have” add-on to a researcher’s work, a website can be an evidence base, an interactive communication and feedback tool, a sharing platform, a project management tool, and more besides. Marta confidently describes web content and social media output as part of research documentation and that it should be seen as “our lab book of modern times”.