Report for March 2018

Report Date
March 2018

Report compiled by Tim Gray (Programme Manager) for Jeremy Upton (Fund Manager)

Programme Summary

Project Reports

  Project

  Report

  LCI036 Library Compass

  Project Manager: Tom Armitage 

 

Achievements

  • Project kicked off with data search
  • Alternative methods of delivery have arisen

Issues

  • Delays in acquiring data in the early stages

Next Steps

  • Ingest library drawings

Budget Information

  • Spend to date £3,840. Forecast to spend budget by 31st July 2018.

  LCI037 Steps Through Time

  Project Manager: Christine Love-Rodgers

Achievements

  • A formal response from Planning was received in March, confirming that no planning consent is required for the project.
  • An initial short list of New College Library Special Collections items has been identified. Work has also begun on drafting dates to be included in the timeline.

Issues

  • The project start has been slightly delayed because of the wait to hear from Planning, however the design studio identified as the contractor for the work has confirmed that the revised schedule is still acceptable for them.

Next steps

  • Mon 9 April : meeting to form a project steering group including UG and PG student representatives. This group will have a coordinating role and select the dates for the timeline. They will make the final editorial decisions on which images to use on the panels.
  • Mon 23 April-Wed 25 April : Steps Through Time event. Students will be invited to come to a display of New College Library Special Collections, held over three days . They will be  invited to vote on the item from each century which they would choose to have displayed as a panel image. These votes will be collated to help us prioritise which images to include.
  • May : Final selection of images  and timeline dates
  • May : Meet with the designer to confirm design specifications and word limits for text
  • May : Process any photography required

Budget information

  • No spend as yet
  • Forecast to spend the budget as planned

  LCI039 Visual Metaphor Cards

  Project Manager: Rhian Davies

Achievements

  • Student worker recruited
  • Approach agreed with Library

Issues

  • No issues 

Next Steps

  • Complete student induction
  • Contact Graphics to agree indicative timeline for printing

Budget Information

  • No spend to date as IS time not chargeable
  • Confident funds will be spent by the end of the year

  LCI040 WhatsAppEd

  Project Manager: Nicola Osborne

  

Achievements

  • Recruitment underway

Issues

  • Delays in student recruitment

Next Steps

  • Complete recruitment

Budget Information

  • Spend to date £640. Extension requested into 18/19 for Freshers Week

 

  LCI035 EdinburghSpeaks 

  Project Manager: James Reid

  

Achievements

  • Student successfully engaged and work begun

Issues

  • Delays in recruiting student.

Next Steps

  • Meet with others in ISG to share experiences
  • Look at using UoE microservices for events and getting that into an Alexa skill
  • Try and source other machine interfaces feeds to populate skills
  • Test, review and deploy as live skill

Budget Information

  • Spend to date £500.
  • Forecast overspend of £500 - to be discussed at programme meeting

  LCI038 The Common Sense - Edinburgh Art Festival 2018 Exhibition  

  Project Manager: Liv Laumenech

Achievements

  • Students Exhibition of the first five episodes in Codebase successfully installed and launched on March 29th 2018. 

Issues

  • Awaiting drawings from Melanie Gilligan's studio for the design of the exhibition in West Court. Should be here on April 10th. 

Next steps

  • Desintall work at codebase 
  • Confirm AV Tech needs
  • Technicians - email and confirm details, arrange site visit 
  • Interpretation
  • Graphic designer/design 
  • EAF/ECA  offer - confirm details 
  • Invigilators

Budget Information

  • As per the forecast, the project has not spent any funds to date. 
  • The budget forecast is on track
  

 

 

Completed Projects

Project

  Report

 

LCI023 Student Interns for Makers Space

Project Manager: Fiona Hale

  Project closed in September 2017

  Completion report to follow

LCI032 Elearning Internship - What's eating your collections? 

Project Manager: Katherine Richardson 

  Project closed in September 2017

  Completion report to follow

 

Documentation

Not available.