Some Assembly Required: The PRC and the Work Behind Research

Slides for my presentation at the launch of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Alliance on 28 October 2026. The talk explored the practical and institutional challenges of making scholarly publishing more open, equitable, and sustainable, drawing on the experience of Transformations. A DARIAH Journal and the ATRIUM Peer Review Framework. It examined how assessment models can be adapted to non-traditional research outputs such as datasets, workflows, and training materials, arguing that true transformation in scholarly communication requires far more than merely changing the sequence of publication, review, and curation.