{"id":1726,"date":"2015-03-25T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/acit-rs-team\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T09:58:15","slug":"3-month-report-december-to-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/acit-rs-team\/2015\/03\/25\/3-month-report-december-to-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"3-month report: December to February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlights<\/h2>\n
\"ORDS<\/a>

Click image to watch the new ORDS video (on YouTube).<\/p><\/div>\n

Another great quarter for actively engaging the researchers: the Things to do with data<\/a>, Data visualization<\/a> and Corpus Linguistics<\/a> seminar series, training in using ORDS<\/a>, XML editing with Oxygen<\/a>, the TEI Guidelines<\/a>, XPath Searching<\/a>, \u00a0agent-based modelling<\/a>, and a new 3-hour practical course about using Blender for visualization<\/a>. We have also delivered RDM training<\/a> for the social sciences, MPLS, and Humanities divisions, for the NERC doctoral training programme, and via ITLP.<\/p>\n

The IT Services ORDS early-life support team is approaching the final stages in terms of fixing bugs and formalising the application management with the software solutions and infrastructure teams. We also released a new ORDS demo video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The IT Services Redds project has started to scope and specify the deposit interface to ORA Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>

Sadly, Mark Johnson left IT Services to join the Open University<\/p><\/div>\n

The IT Services lecture capture project has started where we will lead on evaluating alternative software for recording and sharing presentations.<\/p>\n

The EU VALS project<\/a> is in the final phase and our contribution will be focused on evaluation and recommendations.<\/p>\n

The IT Services Web CMS project is up and running again and we are leading the definition of user requirements and piloting templates with researchers.<\/p>\n

The EU DiXiT project has delivered a number of training events across Europe.<\/p>\n

We continue to contribute to the CLARIN ERIC<\/a> network focusing on user involvement in language resources and tools, and to contribute to the setting up of a UK consortium of research institutions aiming to develop infrastructure for sharing digital linguistic data and tools.<\/p>\n

We are providing IP expertise to the Jisc Brisskit project<\/a> team.<\/p>\n

We have begun the IT Services Live data to scope a set of data visualization services.<\/p>\n

We have been given the go-ahead to investigate how to better support research who need to manage participant data (IT Services Participant Data project will start Sep 2015).<\/p>\n

Sadly we had to say goodbye to Mark Johnson who has joined the Open University. Mark made an enormous contribution to the team over the last 3 years working on ORDS, developing Drupal, leading on open source advice and starring in several vodcasts<\/em>. We saw Mark off at the local with a few games of DiXit (yes, he won) and Ergo (designed by Brian and Brent Knudson) – possible the nerdiest game ever invented.<\/p>\n

Progress against plans for last 3 months<\/h2>\n
\"Engagement<\/a>

Engagement statistics, December to February 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. Plans are still in formation regarding how we will report to the research IT committee (with the libraries and other service owners).<\/li>\n
  2. We have agreed to drop the application for funding for the OxLangCloud project and instead support a pilot of the CQPweb<\/a> software run by OeRC and Linguistics faculty<\/li>\n
  3. We have started the Live Data project and been given the go ahead to run a project focused on participant data<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Plans for next 3 months<\/h2>\n
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    1. Hand over ORDS software maintenance to Software Solutions<\/li>\n
    2. Finish the Live Data project PID<\/li>\n
    3. Embed the FrontRange system in our team practices<\/li>\n
    4. Write an innovation fund project focused on visualization of large data sets<\/li>\n
    5. Finish a new documentary style video about research data and update the openspires website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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