Report for July 2018

Report Date
July 2018

Report compiled by Tim Gray (Programme Manager) for Melissa Highton (Fund Manager) and Kevin Brogan (Head of Operations) 

Programme Summary

Innovation Projects

LTW Strategic Projects

Innovation Project Reports 

  Project

  Report

  LTI033 Playful Strategy 

  Project Manager: Charlie Farley

Achievements

  • Met with Melissa and came up with a plan to order and create a 'Creativity Trolley' for Level E at Argyle house with items that could be used to encourage collaboration and creativity in workshops and meetings. Two boxes, one for Level H and one to move around ISG sites (e.g. Gyle Annexe, site libraries, King's Buildings etc.). Melissa also suggested incorporating this with the Internet of Things project so we could track where the trolley and boxes were moving and being used. Stationary, games, and items for the trolley and boxes were ordered.
  • The thinking.is.ed.ac.uk webpages to promote our Playful and creative services across ISG are underway and being created by the Interactive Content Team.
  • I ran a playful workshop on playful innovation, inviting representatives from all levels across ISG to attend, share their experiences, and collaborate towards the Playful Engagement and Innovation Strategy. The workshop was a great success with everyone participating

Issues

  • There was a hold up on the orders for the creativity items due to a temporary member of the business admin team not passing the purchase order through to Jo Newman until a week after it had been submitted. Additionally, the trolley turned out not to be available via the stationary suppliers despite being visible on the webpages. Jo Newman was investigating options but this may have missed the end of financial year deadline. We now have materials, but no trolleys to place them on.
  • There was a lot of confusion and I'd had no training on what an eIT was, how to place a purchase order, no idea that when it arrived a received form also needed to be created. I think that because the purchasing system changed after the start of the innovation fund program began there was a gap in training. The training at the beginning clearly set up what our codes were and how to create reports,  which was great, but there were assumptions of knowledge even I didn't realise I lacked until errors were being made. Additionally there's very little clear guidance or information on the ISG Business Admin SharePoint as to how it all works. It all makes perfect sense to someone working 'in' the system, but not to someone who has never placed purchase orders or received goods within ISG. When I asked for support it was readily provided, but I needed to know when and where to ask for it.

Next Steps

  • Feedback from the Playful Innovation workshop is being integrated into the Playful Engagement and Innovation Strategy draft, this will be sent to all attendees to invite further comments. Then this will be passed on to Melissa Highton for further development.
  • Trolleys still to be chased and the IoT for the trolleys and items to be made available around Argyle House.

Budget Information

  • £1262.03 was spent towards the creativity trolley and boxes for Level E, H, and ISG Sites.
  • £506 was to be spent on the two trolleys, I'm unsure if this went through before the end of financial year.
  • £201 were to be spent on Tempo Disc Movement and Shock Bluetooth Sensor Beacon and Logger (IoT). Again I'm unsure if this went through in time for the end of the financial year.
  • £291.75 was spent on catering.
  • £50 was spent on books
  • £600 went towards the Playful Learning Conference attendance
  • £1750 went to the Interactive Content team for the thinking.is.ed.ac.uk webpages.
  • Total confirmed spend: £3953.78 (unsure if the £506 on trolleys & £201 of IOT went through before end of financial year, if so spend would be £4660.78)

  LTI034 Research Data Management Service Development MOOC  

  Project Manager: Magdalena Getler

Achievements

  • Scripts for two modules completed
  • Content shot for module one
  • Interactive content commissioned

Issues

  • None

Next steps

  • Shot content for module two
  • Commission interactive content for module two
  • Ongoing collaboration with RDNL to make sure the remaining modules (3, 4 & 5) and conducted in a smilier manner, consistent with the rest.

Budget information

  • 6k carried over to pay for media production

 

 

 

 

 

LTS Strategic Project Reports 

  Project

  Report

  LTW003 Digital Writing Surfaces in Science and Engineering

  Project Manager: Victoria Dishon

  No report

  LTW007 Speak to us - Voice Interaction Design for University Websites

  Project Manager: Stratos Filalithis  

Achievements

  • Review of standards and technology landscape review in Wiki pages.
  • Booked a full day on 30/8 for a Hackathon event to communicate and pilot the standards and guidance in the wiki pages.
  • Send invitations for Hackathon attendees.
  • Generated interest for funding a follow-up project.

Issues

  • No issues to report

Next Steps

  • Run the Hackathon.

Budget Information

  • Current spend £186
  • Estimated spend £6,000

 LTW006 Schema.org integration with Library and University Collections

 Project Manager: Scott Renton

Achievements

  • Mappings completed for nine collections sites.

  • The first three collections sites released to live with schema.org markup as expected (https://collections.ed.ac.uk/arthttps://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimedhttps://collections.ed.ac.uk/calendars)

  • The next six sites are in the code ready for the next release

  • More sites can be updated, as the interns have left their process for implementation

  • Nandini trained in Google Analytics

  • Nandini trained in technical SEO

  • Holly met with Duncan MacGruer to discuss how this material can be purposed for funnelback

  • Holly and Nandini have both written blogposts highlighting their achievements

  • Nandini presented to the Digital Library Systems team to show her work

  • Both interns have completed their work and have the relevant paperwork to show that they took part in this project.

Issues

  • Both interns had some sick time in July, but this did not upset the project.

Next Steps

  • LDD to implement the St Cecilia's Hall mapping as documented by the interns
  • The One Note documentation file to be uploaded to the DL Dev wiki.
  • Meetings to take place with LTW to make use of the data.

Budget Information

  • To be added

 

 

 

 

 

 

Completed Projects

Project

  Report

  LTI023 Understanding Student Perceptions and Expectations of Technology  

  Project Manager: Ross Ward

 Project closed in September 2017

  Completion Report

  LTI025 UoE Open Knowledge Network

  Project Manager: Lorna Campbell

  Project Closed in October 2017

  Completion Report (to be added)

  LTI029 Teacherbot Service Pilot

  Project Manager Stewart Cromer

  Project Closed in October 2017

  Completion Report (to be added)

 LTW005 Nureva Span Local & Distance Collaborative System

  Project Manager: Stephen Dishon

Project Closed in March 2017

  Completion Report (to be added)

LTW004 Multimedia Metadata Generator

  Project Manager: Jimmy Angelakos

Project withdrawn

LTW001 Blockcerts for Edinburgh

  Project Manager: James Reid

Project closed in July 2018

Completion Report

  LTW002 Dealing with Data Video Case Studies

  Project Manager: Pauline Ward

Project closed in July 2018

Completion Report