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ISI039 Visualising the curriculum
Project Manager Scott Renton
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Achievements
- Justin Ho started work on April 4
- Induction took place and project plan drawn up
- Justin has already managed to generate some impressive programmatic summaries for the first use case (gender)
- First project meeting with Hannah, Kirsty and Sarah has taken place- they were very impressed with this work, and we thought about additional use cases and the platform if there is time.
Issues
- Justin has discovered that he is limited to 100000 API calls per month to genderize. For $9 per month he can get 1000000, so we will pay for this.
- Justin has also discovered that he is limited to 1000 API calls to Google Books for more author information. There is no payable increment, so he must simply change the way he works.
- We cannot quite make the 9 hours per week in one day, so we are looking at working in the annual leave (8 hours per week)/ working up the backlog.
Next Steps
- Meeting between Justin and Melissa Terras 28/5
- Pay for genderize subscription through company credit card. Remember to cancel when project finishes!
- First visualisations to appear this month.
Budget Information
- Spend to date: £550.87
- Projected spend: £2224.27
- This is slightly higher because the genderize api projection was for 1 month at £9. I've put in 3 months at £7 (based on exchange rate 0.77). We may not need all 3 months though.
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ISI040 Revealing and Expanding Diversity in our Library Collections
Project Manager: Hannah Mateer
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Report pending (PM on AL)
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ISI041 Vote100 Exhibition
Project Manager Anne-Marie Scott
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Closure pending
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LTI036 Student Digital Ambassadors
Project Manager Satu Kapiainen
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Achievements
- Two Digital Champions employed to represent CAHSS and CSE respectively
- Digital Champions working as part of the Digital Skills and Training team, promoting digital skills to students and key stakeholders
Issues
- No applications received for CMVM - post was not re-advertised
Next steps
- Digital Champions' contracts will end on 26th May 2019
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LTW008 Playful Strategy Phase 2
Project Manager Charlie Farley
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Achievements
- Co-presented with Melissa Highton on the Playful Engagement strategy at the UCISA Leadership end of March.
- Liaised with ISG Disability Officer Viki Galt to collaborate on Healthy Working Lives competition as part of Mental Health Awareness week May 13th-17th. Event is to encourage and record ISG staff use of playful provisions on Trolleys and boxes. Additional materials have been ordered and are going out to site library locations as part of this action.
- Received approval of Staff Development form for attendance at Playful Learning conference. Once approved will book attendance and accommodation now booked.
- Met in late March with Daphne Loads of IAD who will promote our Playful Engagement page and approach to other areas in IAD and outward to staff.
- Met in April with Brian Lamb, Director of Innovation at Thompson Rivers University to discuss playful engagement approaches in HE.
- Virtual coffee meeting with Keegan Wheeler, Educational Technologist at the Office of Digital Learning, University of Oklahoma. Keegan has also used Twine for digital and creative playful education purposes, and has created a five week / five session course on how to utilise playful games in education and technology.
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Issues
- Still awaiting data feed from the IoT project.
- Still awaiting finalisation of EIT in order to send payment to the IoT project.
Next Steps
- Book travel to and from Playful Learning conference in Leicester.
- Write up blog posts about interactions during MH Awareness week & collaboration with HWL.
- Present at Playful Learning conference in July.
Budget Information
- Budget is still within expected costings
- Re-allocated UCISA attendance funds into materials and prizes for the collaborative competition with Healthy Working Lives.
- Expected spend for May:
- Playful Learning Conference Travel £100
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LCI041 Examination, Identification and Innovation: XRF Research Internship
Project Manager Emily Hick
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Created workplan and timetable for intern
None
Attendance of "Employ.ed on Campus - Line Manager Induction Event" on 8 May
Intern to start on 3 Jun
- Budget Information (what has been spent to date and expected spend until completion)
No spend to date
Intern salary will be paid in June, July and August. Total expected spend: £4,603
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LCI043 Undergraduate Data Management Skills Training
Project Manager Bob Sanders
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- Achievements
- Training materials (e.g. data management handbook and slides for training sessions) were finished.
- 9 training sessions were delivered (3 per week, weeks beginning 25th March, 1st April and 8th April).
- feedback from attendees, including academic support librarians, has been excellent.
Issues
- The delay in project starting due to recruitment process meant that by the time the training materials were ready there was only 3 weeks left of the teaching period to deliver the training. We are considering how to make use of the training materials developed by the PhD intern beyond the end of the project.
Next Steps
- Produce report on feedback from training sessions.
- Make UG RDM Handbook & training materials developed for this project available to stakeholders for review and feedback.
- Engage with academic support librarians to explore how feedback and PhD intern experience from this project can feed into their ongoing delivery of training and support for UG students.
- Look into developing an online training resource from the materials developed by this project (if this in scope of the project).
Budget Information
- Grade 5 PT17 (SBS Pension ) – 9 hours p/w (0.26 FTE) - January 14th 2019 to July 13th 2019
- Costs to develop online training resource - to be discussed
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USI016 Card Services: Feasibility study of providing student identity on smartphone
Project Manager Barry Croucher
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Achievements
- A design solution for a prototype representation of card identity on phone based on feedback from user research and stakeholder meeting has been agreed with Apps Developer Michael Sun (
 usi016_id_on_phone_design_3.pdf)
Issues
Next Steps
- Michael Sun will commence work on the design beginning of June working part-time on the project to end of July
- Budget Information (what has been spent to date and expected spend until completion
Budget Information
- There has been no expenditure in April and none expected in May: Apps development time is 20 days for June and July @ standard rate budgeted 20 days @ £350/day = £7000
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USI017 Card Services: Feasibility study of door access function via smartphone
Project Manager Paul Gorman
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Achievements
- A design solution for a prototype for a short life one time use QR code generated by App on phone to facilitate Main Library access (authorisation for staff mediated entry, or electronic release of glass door) has been developed by Simon Chapple.
- A design solution for a prototype for registration of phone to facilitate access through Main Library speedlane has been investigated by Alan Sloane.
Issues
- No technical issues for QR code generation but operational issues to be resolved – for example, QR code could facilitate exit as well as entry but glass door exit by-passes book security detection system.
- InfoSec review of terms and conditions of use for administration tool for registration of phone to facilitate access through Main Library speedlane has revealed strong reasons not to adopt the solution.
Next Steps
- Prototype QR code generator to be built and tested.
- Alternative administration tool for registration of phone to facilitate access through Main Library speedlane that works with C*Cure and speedlane readers to be investigated.
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USI018 PC Availability App
Project Manager: Andrew Millington
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Achievements
- Majority of functionality for app in place including location summaries, graphs, maps, and a quick find button to find the nearest study spaces location.
Issues
- The test API we had been provided prior to development does not have a production equivalent. We are working with apps to see if we can progress this to a production state.
Next Steps
- Complete development
- Review final look and feel of application
- Deploy on a production hosting account
Budget Information
- £7250 of total budget spent on development. This differs from our original budget forecast as we decided to do most of our development work in April instead of spreading it equally over 4 months as originally proposed.
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ITI031 University Calendar
Project Manager: Maurice Franceschi
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Achievements in Last Period
Analysis - contact timetabling - done
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Complete analysis - done
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Meet with Matt Beilby and Anne Major and James Jarvis and Abdul Majohti - Handover of Dates to Matt for ongoing ownership and update - objective 1 achieved
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Meet with Matt Beilby and Anne Major and James Jarvis and Abdul Majohti - Agree on communications of dates to PMs - objective 1 achieved
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Meet with Matt Beilby and Anne Major and James Jarvis and Abdul Majohti - Agree on Abdul as escalation point - objective 2 achieved
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Meet with Matt Beilby and Anne Major and James Jarvis and Abdul Majohti - Agree on Matt providing Forward Look - objective 3 descoped
Issues and Risks
Next Steps
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