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

[Alexander Dutton]

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On 13/09/11 15:09, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> wave!

particle!

> 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.

Cool. Well, let's try and match up as much as possible (popes,
catholics; grandmothers, eggs).

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

Looks sane to me :-).

> 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)

Sounds sensible. AFAIK, we don't have an institutional register so
just asking for and publishing data here would be a quick win.

> 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)

Presumably you can only go so far to representing this stuff in RDF,
after which point you're best off with a free-text ex:peculiarities
property.

> 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.

Just looking at the typology on the ESPRC register makes me scared.
Mind you, if one wants to push data at them one would need to be able
to stick stuff in their tree.

> 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"

ov:simpleLabel beckons…

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

Interesting; I've joined their mailing list. (Though they seem to have
gone quiet).


It appears there'll also be some higher-up discussion on this next
week, so we'll see what happens…


Alex

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Alexander Dutton
Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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