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ISI039 Visualising the curriculum
Project Manager Scott Renton
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Achievements
- Justin Ho has created impressive visualisations (using R) in the following areas: gender across various levels of citations and across schools; number of times a resource/author is cited; geographical analysis
- Two project meetings have taken place where a number of excellent additional suggestions have been raised (Melissa Terras, Angela Laurins, Sarah Ames). Hannah Mateer and Kirsty Lingstadt have contributed remotely- meetings have needed a lot of rescheduling.
- The last two weeks of July have been approved so Justin can use that time to focus on writing up.
- Genderize API subscription was paid.
Issues
- We will not have time to produce an automated platform for this work, but that was only ever a 'nice to have'.
- Justin needs some additional data for school codes.
Next Steps
- Book a slot at Library Committee for Justin to present his paper.
- Blogpost will follow on from that (with the 'sensitivities' removed), and sent to Ex Libris.
- Justin's end of employment procedures to be carried out.
- The last remaining visualisations to be created.
Budget Information
- Spend to date:
- Projected spend:
- This includes the additional time for Justin as he was originally only budgeted up to 16 July, but contracted to end of month.
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ISI040 Revealing and Expanding Diversity in our Library Collections
Project Manager: Hannah Mateer
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Report pending
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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 ended on 26th May 2019
- Project is now finished
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LTW008 Playful Strategy Phase 2
Project Manager Charlie Farley
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Achievements
- Book travel to and from Playful Learning conference in Leicester.
- Write up blog posts about interactions during MH Awareness week & collaboration with HWL.
- Gave a Keynote presentation at the ICEPOPS conference June 26th mentioning the Playful Engagement Strategy at ISG.
- Collaborated with ISG Disability Officer Viki Galt to collaborate on Healthy Working Lives competition as part of Mental Health Awareness week May 13th-17th. Additional materials were sent out to site library locations.
- The travelling Playful Box is still touring site library locations.
Issues
- Still awaiting data feed from the IoT project.
Next Steps
Budget Information
- Budget is still within expected costings
- Spend for June
- Playful Learning Conference Travel £141.31
- EIT for Internet of Things £492
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LCI041 Examination, Identification and Innovation: XRF Research Internship
Project Manager Emily Hick
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Achievements
- Internship started on schedule
- Employ.ed and CRC induction completed
- Intern has begun to meet with collection curators to determine priorities for XRF testing
- XRF Testing begun on special collections. Testing complete on a collection of medals to determine whether they are original or facsimile.
- Meeting with Digital Imaging Unit to discuss film of project/internship
- eIT created to pay for film
Issues
Next Steps
- Internship carries on until 9 August
- Further testing of collections using XRF
- Furher meetings with CRC collection curators
Budget Information
- Spent to date - Total £2,141 . Internship Salary (paid at end of June - £1,641) and XRF film (£500)
- Expected spend until completion - Internship Salary (two instalments, one paid at end of July (£1,641) and the other at end of August (£821))
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LCI043 Undergraduate Data Management Skills Training
Project Manager Bob Sanders
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- Candela is currently developing an online version of the 'Making the most of your dissertation' course, which will use 8 short videos (presented by Candela) to introduce each of the topics covered in the 'Making the most of your dissertation' handbook. Candela will use her remaining time on the project (currently until the end of July) to develop the online training course. The proposed online course will make use of the videos alongside supporting materials (the handbook, suggested activities, and links to other useful online resources) plus guidance for teachers on how to use the materials to deliver research data management (RDM) training to students. With the above in mind, we will employ a professional video editor to record and edit the 8 videos (to be shot in mid-July). Additionally, we will print materials to support the wider promotion of RDM training more widely within the university.
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Achievements
- Candela (the PhD intern working on this project) has now completed the 'Making the most of your dissertation' handbook. The handbook was circulated amongst the RDS team and other relevant parties and feedback has been used to improve the handbook. Candela has been working on the final Project Report about developing the training materials and presenting the training sessions. The report has been circulated and is currently being reviewed by members of the team.
Issues
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As the timing of the project unfortunately did not coincide with the time when the training would be most usefully available to UG students, we are exploring whether project funds can be carried across to allow Candela to be employed into the next academic year to allow her to deliver the training again when it will have greater impact and reach. Due to getting a decision on this we have needed to explore alternative methods for increasing the impact and scope of the training materials. Based on discussion with and positive feedback from various stakeholders (UG programme directors, Academic Support Librarians and other student support services) we are currently developing training videos based on the 'Making the most of your dissertation' training workshops, which will allow these training materials to remain accessible to UG students after the project ends. Due to the anticipated time needed to get the online training materials ready (given the short time before the anticipated end of the project) we have increased Candela's hours (from 9hrs per week to 14hrs per week) and extended her contract until the end of July to enable her to spend as much time on this as possible.
Next Steps
- Candela is currently developing an online version of the 'Making the most of your dissertation' course, which will use 8 short videos (presented by Candela) to introduce each of the topics covered in the 'Making the most of your dissertation' handbook. Candela will use her remaining time on the project (currently until the end of July) to develop the online training course. The proposed online course will make use of the videos alongside supporting materials (the handbook, suggested activities, and links to other useful online resources) plus guidance for teachers on how to use the materials to deliver research data management (RDM) training to students.
- With the above in mind, we will employ a professional video editor to record and edit the 8 videos (to be shot in mid-July).
- Additionally, we will print materials to support the wider promotion of RDM training more widely within the university.
Budget Information
- Grade 5 PT17 (SBS Pension ) – 9 hours p/w (0.26 FTE) - January 14th 2019 to June 9th 2019 Grade 5 PT17 (SBS Pension ) – 14 hours p/w (0.4 FTE) - June 10th 2019 to July 31st 2019 Fees for professional video editor to record and edit training videos - approx. £2,000.00 (costs to be confirmed, July 2019) Printed materials for promotion of RDM training (costs to be confirmed, July 2019) Subject to confirmation that remaining project funds may be carried over to new academic year, if possible we expect to extend Candela's contract for approx. 6 months @ 9 hrs p/w
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USI016 Card Services: Feasibility study of providing student identity on smartphone
Project Manager Barry Croucher
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Achievements
- Progress made on developing the mobile app for ID on phone with basic structure created
- Apps Software Developer has set up emulator on PC for proof of concept on desktop as per development pathway
Issues
- Development Service Resource Coordinator re-negotiated Apps Software Developer time to meet needs of a MyEd high priority project on 27 June: this caused suspension of developer work to 12 July from which point resource will be committed full time to USI016
- Requirements from Apps Development Technology have been identified by Apps Software Developer: server for displaying the user interface on the phone; server for microservice to fetch data
- Resources from Apps Development Technology are not scheduled: advice is resources cannot be committed unless conflict for time
- Proof of concept to deploy to Dev/Test for testing by select users is in doubt
- Further steps after UAT would be needed: deploy to Live (UI/Microservice), set up Apple/Google account and complete process to publish the mobile app
Next Steps
- Apps Software Developer to work full time on USI016 from 12 July.
- Detailed requirements for Dev/Tech are to be provided by Apps Software Developer to Mark Lang/Gillian Henderson for review.
- Raise conflict for Dev/Tech resource.
- Reallocate projected underspend of £1710 for USI016 for Dev/Tech work; or return to Innovation Programme if unspent.
Budget Information
- EIT 10440493 raised 4 July for User Experience & Digital Consultancy 21 days of user research time at a cost of £7350 (@ £350 per day): this is 4 days under budget (£1400)
- Incentives for student involvement in co-design - Amazon vouchers - spent in February at a cost of £690: this is £310 under budget
- Apps Software Development budget allocation of 20 days £7,000 (@£350 pre day) is expected to be spent by 31 July
- Budget Summary:
- Spent: £690
- Committed: £7350
- Expected: £7000
- Total: £15040
- Budget allocation: £16,750
- Projected underspend: £1710 (unless reallocated for Dev/Tech work)
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USI017 Card Services: Feasibility study of door access function via smartphone
Project Manager Paul Gorman
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Achievements
- Followed up with hull university on their implementation of HiDs solution and how they overcame the hurdles around legalities.
- Reviewed other solutions and aiming to follow up with other vendors on alternative solutions.
- Security research of BLE/nfc based system for mobile devices
- We have a student now working on the project and they have been developing an app to run on Android that displays an animated and time varying sequence of QR codes to create a secure non-copiable token system for transactions, such as the specific use case for this project gaining entry to the main library.
- We have tested integration of the scanning system with the constituent parts of the door entry system that reflect what is deployed in the main library.
- We have configured a server for the back end central processing system for handing out QR codes to validated clients.
Issues
- Hull hasn’t replied to requests for collaboration
- Interop across devices seems to be an issue in terms of different handsets and implementations of BLE
- Predominately this lends itself to a managed mobile service with central app deployment, most solutions require sign apps from official sources IE non rooted phones
- We purchased two units that are BLE/rfid capable which we were for the project until we saw the T&Cs from HiD, but can be reused in other areas within the university
- With staff holidays in July its tight for us to complete the install of the QR code door release system in the Main Library by end of July, it may be we can only achieve this in August, but we are still working towards this goal.
Next steps
- Carry on with the above to find a suitable solution outside of HiD
- Complete the set-up of the back-end QR code server
- Integrate the Android app to work with the back-end QR code server
- Integrate the gate entry Raspberry Pi to work with the QR code back-end server
- Deploy the demo QR code system to the Main Library
Budget Information
- Estimated spend December £776
- Estimated spend January £0
- Estimated spend February £0
- Estimated spend March £5350
- Estimated spend April £0
- Estimated Spend May £0
- Estimated spend June £0
- Estimated spend July £3490
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USI018 PC Availability App
Project Manager: Andrew Millington
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Achievements
Issues
- We could not implement historical trends for the availability of PCs as we didn't have access to a JavaScript friendly database on the university's cHost infrastructure
- Had issues running the site on the production server due to the way the Nuxt framework runs. We had to write our own script to start the Nuxt server as a background process which took some time to implement
Next Steps
- None as project completed
Budget Information
Remaining budget spent in final sprint of project. Total spend of £8750 in line with expectations. Some tasks were dropped due to complexity issues but extra time was spent on deployment issues so this balanced out.
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