The EVIE Project

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The EVIE Project

• Derek Sergeant
• Leeds University Library

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Presentation overview

• Overview of the 10 WPs
• User requirements analysis
• Document visualization
• Digital preservation

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The 10 work-packages

• WP1 Ensure the project runs smoothly
• WP2 User requirements analysis
• WP3 Systems scoping/design
• WP4 Digital preservation requirements
• WP5 Resource discovery and document visualisation
• WP6 Taxonomy
• WP7 Simplified-sign-on, channel development
• WP8 Implementation and deployment
• WP9 Evaluation and dissemination
• WP10 Collaborative tools

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The 10 work-packages
WP2 User Req
WP3 Sys Req
(WP5) Res Disc (Doc Viz)
WP8 Implement
WP7 SSO Dev
(WP10) Collab
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User Requirements Analysis

• 1 1 interviews
• Focus groups
• Online questionnaire

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Research Lifecycle
Peer activities (publishing) Research-Teaching
Links Consultancy
Resource Discovery
Research Outputs
Project Management
Obtain Funding
Collaboration with Partners
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User Requirements - Results
Arts
Business
Biological Sciences
Education, Social Science and Law
Environment
Engineering
Mathematical Physical Sciences
Medicine and Health
Performance, Visual Arts and Communications
Joint Honours
Other
Faculty not stated
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User Requirements - Results
Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer,
Senior Research Fellow
Lecturer, Research Fellow
Graduate Student, Post-doctoral
Researcher
Other
Research role not stated
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User Requirements - Results
essential
1
very important
2
aspect ID
important
3
somewhat important
4
not important
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
number of times rated
1 Resource Discovery
2 Obtain Funding
3 Collaboration with Partners
4 Research Outputs
5 Other
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Results 1, resource discovery
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Results 2, obtain funding
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Results 3, collaboration
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Results 4, research outputs
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Results 5, other
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Document Visualization

• 10 week summer project
• Uses the Google API
• Alternative user interface to sort and
  conceptualise a web search

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Document Visualization

• User types in Search Term
• GoogleAPI called with ST
• Cached copy obtained for top 10
• HTML parsed and analysed to extract keywords
• GoogleAPI called with STkeyword
• Results analysed to allocate relationship
  strengths between URLs and keywords
• Modified TouchGraph presents this

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Document Visualization

• User types in Search Term
• GoogleAPI called with ST
• Cached copy obtained for top 10
• HTML parsed and analysed to extract keywords
• GoogleAPI called with STkeyword
• Results analysed to allocate relationship
  strengths between URLs and keywords
• Modified TouchGraph presents this

• 20 calls

• 10 calls

• 1510

• 20

200 calls to GoogleAPI
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Types of research outputs

• Community knowledge
• Processed data
• Raw data
• Sound / dialogue recording
• Audio
• Video
• Consultancy reports

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Case Study One Kia Ng

• Outputs for a project that has just started
• In the beginning email is important
• Use Wiki to share docs
• Contracts, Budgets, Diarys (EU proprietary)
• Year financial statement
• Kia sends 30GB a day to EC
• Consortium agreement (physical signature)

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Case Study One Kia Ng

• Website, public (mainly static)
• Private view
• Partner profile
• Workpackage manager
• UML diagrams
• Test cases (arbitrary formats)
• Upload/download area (CMS), with metadata
• Stats on usage
• Forum
• Newsletter

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Case Study One Kia Ng

• Deadlines deliverables need to go to EU
• Source code (a subversion repository)
• JavaDoc
• User docs (latex, bibtex, pdf, word, endnote)
• Conferences attended (text paper, pdf, ppt)
• Conferences run
• Info for next conference
• Proceedings (IEEE)
• Website (photos, links)

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Case Study One Kia Ng

• Deliverables
• Reports
• Software
• Docs
• Websites
• Fliers / dissemination material
• CD/DVD
• T-shirts/pens/bags (photo in report)
• Marketing video

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Case Study Two Mark Priestley

• Based on ESSL Support for your Research
• My research plan (reviewed yearly) (PDP)
• Building a research culture
• ULPD keywords used to indicate expertise
• Communication strategy
• Finding funding
• Notes on conversation with resource mentor

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Case Study Two Mark Priestley

• Write research proposal
• Want My applications, past and present
• Work out realistic budget
• Submitting a proposal (JeS)
• Letters, referees comments, etc.
• Approval
• Costing, ethical, HoS

• COSTA schedule
• Case for support
• Application form

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Case Study Two Mark Priestley

• Start project
• Accept the award
• Open a research account
• Appoint new staff, sub-contractors
• Communications, job description, advert
• Manage project
• Track expenditure, manage time workload

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Case Study Two Mark Priestley

• Finish project
• Delivering promised output
• End of project report
• Annual reports
• Working papers
• Publications
• (details of events, external publications)
• Publicise outputs
• Dissemination

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Case Study Two Mark Priestley

• Doing the research
• Data
• RA digitally records interview
• Transcription service
• Store (CD with .wmf transcript)
• Use analysis software (NVivo), coded by staff
• Photo, Video, Stats datasets, Spreadsheets

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3rd VRE Programme Meeting

• Monday, January 16th 2006

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