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

[Christopher Gutteridge]

On 13/09/11 16:02, Alexander Dutton wrote:
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>> 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.
my approach too, but we get a big win if it's more or less apples & apples!
>> 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.
:) Yes, this is a human issue and could as easily go in a 
dcterms:description -- RDF can't save you here, but it's important to 
ask the question.
>> 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.
I was thinking of making them the default keywords...
>> 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…
!! I had to go check if that existed (it doesn't... yet)
>> 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…
OK. Feel free to tell them that we're keen to get our data more-or-less 
the same shape. The benefits are massive if we do...
>
> Alex
>
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> Alexander Dutton
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