Building the Research Information Infrastructure (BRII)

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69045192363836701082012-01-30T22:41:56.389-08:00Building the Research Information Infrastructure (BRII)Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-67872543326683628022010-08-09T08:23:00.000-07:002010-08-12T07:33:18.104-07:00Uncovering hidden connections in Research Activity Data

I recently submited an article to Sconul Focus which, I hope, will be published in a few months time. The topic of the article was data harvesting and aggregation. A simple and (hopefuly) easy to read explanation of a rather complex topic. I used our entity registry as an example and described how it harvests data from University and external sources, how it converts sources into RDF format so

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-14070641702492404272010-07-13T04:14:00.000-07:002010-07-13T04:22:04.514-07:00Southampton ECS release their data into the public domain

The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton releases all public data in open linked data format."In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format.The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-52855544058625352282010-06-30T04:17:00.001-07:002010-06-30T05:21:23.829-07:00BRII Summer Project

This another update to explain our summer 2010 activities. At BRII we are working on a reporting system where users can notify us and official sources of data about errors they find in Research Activity Data. This system will help us and our sources to improve the quality of data. As we are harvesting data from other sources we are designing a system were users can flag errors and send

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-15637701281956382332010-06-29T03:58:00.001-07:002010-06-29T04:21:37.994-07:00Advisory Group Meeting

On Friday 2nd of July we will have our first advisory group meeting after the BRII Project ended. The advisory group is comprised of 10 stakeholders from across the University. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss avenues for development of the Entity Registry and related services (i.e. Blue Pages) and strategies for embedding these services within the University. This of course will be a

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-76354956319056039942010-06-17T04:51:00.000-07:002010-06-17T08:00:31.132-07:00BRII at the SCONUL Conference

Yesterday I attended the "Organisational Leadership in a Time of Change" SCONUL Conference at Leeds Queens Hotel. Although I could not stay for the whole event (I stayed only 1 of 3 days) I enjoyed it. I attended a few presentations and presented our BRII poster.I would like to thank Prof John Lancaster who welcomed me and who kindly helped me to move the BRII poster to a more visible place :)

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-1969230577149109182010-05-13T04:17:00.000-07:002010-05-18T04:06:43.264-07:00BRII Update

This is a short update on our activities and some ideas I have come up with.Since the end of the BRII project we have been working on the registry and user engagement. We are adding more data continuously. We are also outlining data quality control processes and planning some activities with users to evaluate our work.Outcomes of our work in BRII gave us some insights into what the requirements

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-47728468652495919652010-04-01T04:24:00.000-07:002010-04-07T08:47:34.722-07:00End of Project

The BRII project has officially concluded. However development and user engagement work are still ongoing. We will continue to add data to the registry and go around the Univeristy selling our outputs and asking people for more feedback. We will keep you updated on our progress here and in our website http://brii.bodleian.ox.ac.ukIf you want to know more about our outputs and outcomes, have a

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-50639967901183257372010-03-19T08:07:00.000-07:002010-03-22T07:58:58.889-07:00Blue Pages video clip

As the project will end soon (31st of March) I wanted to show you what we have done so far with the Blue Pages. We will not stop working though. We will continue working on harvesting more data and user engagement. Anusha and Mat have been working tirelessly on the Blue Pages and although there is still a lot of work to be done on it I think it is at a stage where I can show you a short demo.

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-48747820494855753652010-03-08T03:27:00.000-08:002010-03-11T07:32:11.852-08:00BRII Presentation

On Friday 5th of March I attended a book launch at the University of Hull - Business School. The book is titled "Supporting research students" by Dr Barbara Allan."The importance of supporting the needs of research students has recently risen higher up the academic agenda around the world. Numbers of postgraduate students have expanded, and the traditional PhD has now been joined by a new range

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-61699800344869757512010-03-02T03:41:00.001-08:002010-03-03T03:35:28.453-08:00Project Evaluation

We just finished our Project Evaluation report. The project's summative evaluation took place on the 19th of February and was directed by Neil Beagrie from Charles Beagrie Ltd. As part of this evaluation Neil ran an online survey with a sample of our interviewees and testers. The results were very positive. We chose people who knew about BRII and who had at least seen a demo or tested the Blue

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-68620282818037670712010-02-22T04:08:00.000-08:002010-02-22T06:38:48.547-08:00Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data

I recently wrote a paper about the user testing of the Oxford Blue Pages. It has been published in Ariadne in their January 2010 issue. Here you have a link to the article in Ariadne www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/loureiroKoechlin The title is Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data. I chose that title to emphasise the aspect of the user testing which we think helped us the most to

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-4190893371263150352010-02-12T07:39:00.000-08:002010-03-03T03:37:29.006-08:00The BRII Project Use Cases Report is ready

The BRII Project Use Cases report is ready and available in PDF format from here. The Use Cases report contains four short, business-style use cases illustrating the uses and benefits of the BRII project outputs.Any comments about the report are welcome. (Click on comments below or email me.)

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-4614322976519763182010-01-27T19:11:00.000-08:002010-01-28T03:29:01.237-08:00BRII's Products - JISC Trade Fair

These are posters I designed for the Institutional Innovation Projects Trade Fair. The posters explain our three products: a vocab site, an approach to user testing and the Blue Pages.Click on pictures to get larger versionsWe have many more products of course but these are the ones I thought could be more attractive to other projects. In addition to the above, we have produced an object registry

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-13402850754617764752010-01-20T04:14:00.000-08:002010-01-20T04:40:02.963-08:00Institutional Innovation Projects Trade Fair

I have been working on the products I will offer in the Projects Traid Fair, part of the JISC Institutional Innovation Exchange event. I have designed a couple of posters to explain my three products. These will be:The Vocabulary site storing the new vocabularies created by BRII providing formal descriptions of concepts, terms and relationships within the "research" knowledge domain (funder

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-76444528216456186032010-01-12T06:37:00.000-08:002010-03-03T03:38:35.607-08:00What is going on in BRII

Since September we have been carrying out user tests of the Oxford Blue pages. These tests have been very useful to improve the Blue Pages usability and to get the perspectives of potential users. These perspectives were not limited to the Blue Pages but to the BRII registry. After seeing the Blue Pages testers asked about the sources of data and the processes of updating these in the registry.

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-25777567416317183682009-12-11T12:32:00.000-08:002009-12-11T13:09:42.178-08:00JISC MEAoT Assembly

Yesterday I attended a JISC assembly organised by the Modular e-Administration of Teaching MEAoT Project run by CARET - Cambridge University. The aim of the event was to explore ways in which stakeholders and other parties can be encouraged to adopt tools developed in JISC projects. Below you can see my presentation:The second slide briefly explains the nature of BRII and the Entity Registry we

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-89947128074239391122009-11-27T06:13:00.000-08:002010-03-03T03:40:03.108-08:00BRII's Entity Store

In our internal meetings we use the term Registry or Entity Registry to refer to the Research Information Infrastructure. Wanting to know a bit more about the meaning and technological features of such kind of store I asked Anusha. She gave me the following lecture:Cecilia: What is an Entity Registry and what is the difference with conventional stores?Anusha: Lets first list our entities, so we

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-82267245948480798982009-11-18T08:59:00.000-08:002009-11-23T07:49:19.333-08:00Blue Pages - User Tests 3

We have just started a third round of user tests of the Oxford Blue Pages. This time tests focus on research collaborations. Collaborations can happen in projects, when writing (books, articles, etc,) or they can be informal exchanges of knowledge. The Blue Pages will display the collaborators of researchers as far as data is available. Names of collaborators will be extracted from publications,

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-62513376820405021682009-10-30T04:17:00.001-07:002010-03-03T03:40:32.718-08:00Blue Pages - User Tests 2

After 3 intense weeks Anusha, Monica and I have completed a second round of user tests. This time no mock ups but with the real thing, which of course is the Blue Pages v0.00 :) We did 15 tests with a selection of academics, students, administrators and one research facilitator. Again feedback has proved to be an eye opener, and is helping us on our design.Tests lasted an average of 45 minutes

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-64290835426185910272009-10-26T08:36:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:40:54.707-08:00BRII Inside O.R.

This week I got a copy of the Inside O.R. magazine - November issue with a short article about BRII. I wrote this article after the OR51 conference (Operational Research) where I presented a paper called Making Sense of Research Activity Information in the Information Systems stream.Thanks to Rajan Anketell, Inside O.R. editor.Click here to download whole issue.

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-14918793332773561812009-10-02T16:54:00.000-07:002010-05-25T04:31:11.687-07:00Institutional Repositories: acceptance and adoption

I have been reading some literature about institutional (digital) repositories. I am interested in the human and social issues surrounding their development and implementation as well as their embedding. I think this literature is very relevant to BRII as it reports experiences in similar implementations (not necessarily technically but conceptually) in similar kinds of institutions.Technically

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-74024859633913424142009-09-17T13:37:00.000-07:002009-09-18T01:10:58.143-07:00Data, ideas and more

Yesterday, I met with Luis Martinez Uribe, Digital Repositories Research Coordinator, to talk about research data. Luis is working in the The Embedding Institutional Data Curation Services in Research (EIDCSR) project which looks at research data management and curation challenges. Previously he worked in the Scoping digital repository services for research data management project where he

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-46234184744848268952009-09-11T04:46:00.000-07:002009-09-12T12:17:04.780-07:00Making Sense of Research Activity Information

This week I attended the Operational Research OR51 conference at the University of Warwick. This is a big conference for the OR people. A very exciting event. I gave a presentation in the Information Systems stream, having previously submitted an abstract. We started conference activities on Tuesday morning, but there was dinner and a wine tasting welcome event on Monday evening. :)The

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-58081889912219992882009-09-01T03:25:00.000-07:002009-09-02T03:11:45.133-07:00JISC SSBR Newsletter

The JISC Institutional Innovation programme has released a new issue of their Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation (SSBR) Newsletter. (Issue Six - 1 September 2009.) We are happy to see that we are featured on the front page, or is it the first paragraph? :)Activity slowed a little over the past few weeks? Looking at the significant progress made by many projects, it appears not. BRII have

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-82321511458842591362009-08-28T09:39:00.000-07:002009-09-02T05:45:13.696-07:00Beyond the Repository Fringe 2009

Sally and Ben were in Edinburgh last month attending the Beyond the Repository Fringe 2009, an event for repository developers, managers, researchers, administrators and onlookers.They shared central stage when they gave the opening keynote speech. This is what they said:Ben O’Steen and Sally Rumsey (Oxford) – “A sneak preview at the A-list stars of future repositories: blockbuster technical

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-66349641811308045462009-08-18T06:56:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:43:06.936-08:00BluePages - User Tests 1

Anusha, Monica and I have finished a first (short) round of user tests. We got very interesting feedback from them which we will use to design a first online version of the BluePages. We will have a second round in maybe a month time.In the mean time I am going to give you a brief overview of the process we designed for the user tests.We recruited a small number of testers from within the Library

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-11267953548795626382009-08-11T05:43:00.001-07:002009-09-01T03:49:52.519-07:00BluePages - User Tests

Anusha and I are running a first round of user tests. For this we are using a mockup of the BluePages that Monica made with Balsamiq. Nice tool by the way, you can see some screenshots of a previous version of our mockup here.I am using the term user tests as we are aiming to do a bit more than just asses the usability of our initial design. With these tests we are also trying to assess the

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-9379730046181320882009-07-27T08:04:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:43:45.061-08:00Stakeholder Analysis report is ready

The BRII Stakeholder Analysis report is ready and available in PDF format from here. Any comments about the report are welcome. (Click on comments below or email me.)

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-90762529639365289032009-07-23T03:01:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:45:53.959-08:00Developing the Bluepages

The BRII project is very much on track.I finished the Stakeholder and User needs Analysis. Will be ready for distribution soon.Ben has been working on the development of the foundations of the Research Information Infrastructure (RII). He has also created an online store for the vocabularies resulting from the BRII project. The vocab site has been given a single, central location in Oxford and

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-43931898185097174702009-07-16T08:13:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:47:36.532-08:00Stakeholder Analysis Report

I have been busy these last weeks writing the BRII Stakeholder Analysis report. It is almost ready! I hope to have it finished by next week. Sally has already read it and she has made some suggestions. I am working on them now.This report has over 13 thousand words (35 pages), and it will probably reach 14 thousand as I will write an executive summary after I finish it. To carry out this study I

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-78415841898454492752009-06-18T06:58:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:48:41.417-08:00Stakeholder Buy-in

On the 9th of June we hosted an Assembly. The topic was Stakeholder buy-in and we invited participants from other 6 JISC-funded projects and a representative from the JISC. (Find the programme here.) Our aim was to have a small but friendly gathering where we could exchange ideas, issues and problems related to stakeholder engagement. Basically what we asked presenters was to share their

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-79444990532291046122009-06-11T07:16:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:50:04.568-08:00BRII Blue Pages

Creating Oxford University Blue Pages is one of the objectives of the BRII Project (see http://brii.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.) The Blue Pages will be a directory of expertise. Through them you will be able to search for research activities and experts in Oxford University. As I see it, it will be a sort of mega tool allowing you to see what is in Oxford's Research Information Infrastructure from

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-2342940157036950832009-06-03T05:46:00.000-07:002009-06-15T05:28:50.467-07:00Stakeholder Analysis Report 1

On Tuesday we had our 3rd Project Board meeting. For that I prepared a short presentation with an overview of my data. I had previously emailed them a list of stakeholders I had interviewed with some comments. This gave them an idea of the kinds of (administrative/academic) areas that have participated so far. I also prepared a couple of slides to help me send a clearer message.And this is

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-53711921606416793602009-05-28T08:06:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:00:23.911-07:00JISC Assembly final Programme

The BRII project will host an Assembly on the 2nd of June. The following is the definite prorgamme.Date: 9th JuneTime: 10:30 – 15:00Title: Stakeholder buy-inVenue: Board room, Osney one Building, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EW* 10:30 Coffee* 10:50 Introduction – Sally Rumsey, BRII Project Managero Roundtable of Presentations and discussions on Stakeholder buy-in.View from Oxford University – Cecilia

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-90710275235640823622009-05-18T08:42:00.000-07:002009-07-21T06:39:44.170-07:00Data Analysis

In my previous post I talked about my initial thoughts on the data I am collecting from my interviews. That was an exercise to warm my brain up to start thinking on qualitative data analysis, categorisation and coding of data. In this post I would like to briefly explain the methodology I am using to analyse that data. Be careful... this post has a bit of theory on methodology, but I'll try to

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-63560997052020413002009-05-14T04:33:00.000-07:002010-03-03T03:51:51.601-08:00Comparing perspectives on Research Activity data

As I progress on my data collection for the BRII project I feel the need to share my thoughts about the people I have met and the information I got from them. So far I have done 16 interviews across the University and I have scheduled a few more for the next few weeks. I could classify my interviewees in four groups:The administratives - these are departmental administrators or heads of

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-86658469667182322692009-05-08T06:20:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:01:09.391-07:00BRII Assembly

BRII is organising an Assembly on the 9th of June 2009. Project Teams belonging to the JISC Phase 2 Institutional Innovation are invited. The theme for the Assembly will be Stakeholder buy-in, and the proposed agenda is as follows: • 10:30 Coffee• 11:00 Introduction – Sally Rumsey, BRII Project Managero Roundtable of Presentations and discussions on Stakeholder buy-in.View from University of

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-20553916855663553712009-04-28T06:16:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:01:23.480-07:00Sample Applications Poster

This is the second part of the BRII poster presented at the Lifelong Learning and Workforce Engagement Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation Event on Friday 25th of April in Manchester. This bit was designed by Anne Bowtell MedSci Project Manager and Web Manager. It explains the technical aspects of the project: the Research Information Infrastructure and the harvesting of information by

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-2994640260474372222009-04-20T03:22:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:01:34.546-07:00Stakeholder Analysis Poster

This is the poster I designed for the upcoming JISC event. Click on the figure to see a larger version.Here I try to show the two aspects of the BRII stakeholder analysis I am finding while doing it. Everytime I do some research on a department, an academic or an administrative officer, or everytime I setup an appointment I find new, different things. Every area within the University has their

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-28418739454871435742009-04-03T04:32:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:01:51.784-07:00JISC upcoming event

Soon I will be attending the Lifelong Learning and Workforce Engagement Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation Event Organised by JISC Institutional Innovation programme. (Yep, that is a long name.) The event will take place on the 23rd and 24th of April at the Macdonald hotel in Manchester. You can find the programme here.The BRII project belongs to the Institutional Innovation Round 2. It

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-41797938088455742542009-03-27T09:44:00.001-07:002009-07-23T05:40:08.066-07:00Some thoughts about Data

One of the interviews I conducted this week left me thinking on the issues of transformation of data and its different meanings. I was talking to this lady about her work with research activity data. She explained me how she collects information from various sources, enters that information in a spreadsheet and accommodates it according to her needs. This accommodation involves the organization

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-68629494718798877352009-03-19T09:30:00.000-07:002009-06-13T11:03:06.475-07:00Research Websites in the MSD

Yesterday I attended an interesting presentation in the Oxford Libraries Staff Conference 2009 titled: Research Websites in the MSD (or letting cats herd themselves) presented by Anne Bowtell, the Medical Sciences Divisional Web Manager. It focused on the complex and confusing structures of that division and the difficulties at designing numerous websites and trying to keep all their content

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-14063196127477385782009-03-17T06:17:00.000-07:002009-07-21T06:38:43.915-07:00Interviews v Online Surveys

Interviews and Online Surveys, both are research data collection methods. Both are useful in different ways. For example, interviews allow the researcher to meet with the people s/he wants to talk to, they allow for more rapport building and perhaps more honest and thoughtful responses. During interviews the interviewer can re-phrase questions, clarify points, ask new questions depending on the

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-15074028529918505362009-03-06T11:09:00.000-08:002009-06-13T11:03:44.301-07:00Stakeholder Analysis

Another week into the project....And now I have set foot on the analysis process, writing project briefs and sending emails like crazy... hmmm well not like crazy, I am still in first gear but I gaining speed!I have explained in previous posts that Oxford University is so big and so complex I needed a few weeks to absorb and understand all these names, acronyms, hierarchies, structures,

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-16410915171004161162009-02-27T15:04:00.000-08:002009-07-23T05:41:42.960-07:00Connecting stakeholders and data

The first stage in the BRII project is to carry out a stakeholder analysis. A stakeholder analysis is a process that involves the identification of the project's stakeholders and an assessment of their interests and the ways those interests could affect or be affected by the project. Stakeholders could be people or organisations and their interests could be in favour or against the project.As the

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-38595473731751431432009-02-16T04:54:00.000-08:002009-07-23T05:50:25.982-07:00What is Research Management Data?

BRII's aim is to develop an infrastructure that captures research management information from different sources, which are published or which are classified as appropriate for open publication, and allow their sharing or dissemination in different contexts. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am planning a stakeholder analysis (which I hope to start soon!) to identify stakeholders and their

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-53740448079845911772009-02-12T05:38:00.000-08:002010-03-03T03:54:30.853-08:00Making sense of chaos

The Medical Sciences division (MedSci) in Oxford University is BRII's main stakeholder. BRII will work with several departments within that division and target data in their websites which have already been published or which are classified as appropriate for open publication. These data will be harvested, classified (using taxonomies and ontologies) and aggregated. Finally BRII will create a

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-76087576957097224362009-02-04T08:14:00.000-08:002010-03-03T03:55:50.480-08:00A bit more about BRII

I am new in this post so I have been reading everything that comes to my hands which is related to this and similar projects in Oxford University. That includes websites and other kinds of documentation. For example, the project proposal and project plan which were written for JISC - the funders of the project - way before I joined the team. A summary of those is presented in our Project Website.

Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14423580446222057290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904519236383670108.post-7976492484462454412009-02-02T10:23:00.000-08:002009-09-02T03:08:43.563-07:00Welcome to the BRII Blog

Welcome to the Building the Research information Infrastructure (BRII) Blog. My name is Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin, I am the Project Analyst for BRII. I work for the Systems and eResearch Service (SERS) part of the Oxford University Library Services (OULS). I am based at Osney One, Osney Mead in Oxford, a nice, quiet building not very far from the city centre.The BRII project aims to gather

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