[Buildingdata] Re: Datasets and funding for improving equipment sharing

[Christopher Gutteridge]

wave!

Yes, I've got to write a protocol of how we'll collect and share this 
information for our university. I'm also looking at the spreadsheets plan.

I have a very early sketch of some of this here:
http://data.southampton.ac.uk/work/facilities.rdf

We are specifically starting by asking for info on stuff management by a 
member of tech. staff, as oppose to self-service kit, but we're not 
going to limit what people can also optionally tell us about.

The key issue is to get the most value out of our kit by promoting 
awareness & sharing both internally and externally, and so sone of my 
draft questions are "on a scale of zero to five, how utilised is this 
resource?" and asking if they've got costings for daily rates for its 
use by other projects (allowing people to easily put costings in the 
funding proposals)

Another important issue is "weird configurations" what mean the kit 
doesn't do what it sounds like it does (eg.has  been reconfigured for 
non-human subjects)

Another is categories-- I was going to go with a complex tree, but 
that's a can of insane academic worms, so I'm veering towards tagging 
flickr style instead.

Lastly, I've learned from the bioimaging work that asking "name" gets a 
very weird unreadable response, and it's worth having a "name that the 
average reader of new-scientist (or average V.C.) will understand"

Lastly, this may be of interest: http://kit-catalogue.lboro.ac.uk/project/


On 13/09/11 14:51, Alexander Dutton wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> We've just had the following come through:
>
> """
> The EPSRC has provided funding to ‘to enable Universities to run short
> projects that enable increased sharing of existing research equipment’
> and provide examples of ways to increase use and share scarce
> resources. *Internal grant proposals are invited. Due: 5.00pm,
> Friday 28 October 2011. Funds per project: normally £500 to £10,000.
>
> Activities can be within the University (projects that will enable
> cross-departmental / divisional use of equipment are especially
> welcome) or in collaboration with other Universities.
>
> Some examples of activities that could be undertaken include
>
> * developing/configuring equipment so that it can be more
> easily shared - any investment in items of equipment to enable this
> must be less than £10,000 per item
>
> * setting up equipment as managed facilities (see
> e.g. _http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/researchsupport/facilities/)
>
> * running training/use courses for new users
> """
>
> Further details at<http://is.gd/EEgjY8>.
>
>
> <http://equipment.epsrc.ac.uk/>  seems like some kind of national
> register. So, I'd hope to set up some sort of spreadsheet-based
> submission process that creates some RDF, which can then automagically
> be submitted to the equipment register.
>
> Has anyone done any work in this area? Would anyone be interested in
> working together on such a project?
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Alex
>
> NB. I seem to remember that Southampton (or someone else?) was already
> publishing facilities information to promote sharing.
>
>
> - -- 
> Alexander Dutton
> Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
> Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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