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Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Case study: Barton Peverill Sixth Form College
No full textStudent Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Case study: Barton Peverill Sixth Form College describing their experiences of the tracker pilot
Nova Training case study
No full textCase study on how e-portfolio use helps apprentices take ownership of their learning and improve progressio
Resurrecting Early Christian Lives: Digging in Papyri in a Digital Age
No full textThis project investigated ancient papyri relevant to the rise of early Christianity within the multi-cultural context of Greco-Roman Egypt. Specifically it examined in detail the complex networks of identity and authority and how Christians saw their new religion as part of their other identities (Greek, Egyptian, Roman, merchant, monk). The rich resource of ancient data came from papyrus documents unearthed from the garbage dumps around the outskirts of Bahnasa in Egypt, known in antiquity as Oxyrhynchus. Building on data from the crowd-sourced transcriptions of the Ancient Lives project, they data mined papyri relevant to early Christianity. To increase the range of their dataset, they developed a transcription tool for Coptic, the final stage of the indigenous language of Egypt, notably used by Christians. They implemented a Coptic language version of Ancient Lives, allowing for the crowd-sourced transcription of these poorly known and unpublished texts, and, for Greek and Coptic texts, developed a unique mining tool for the Ancient Lives database
The Complexities of Citation: How theory can support effective policy and implementation
No full textPaper by Cameron Neylon underpinning work on research data citation and citation-based indicators more generally.
Commissioned as a part of the Jisc Research Data Metrics for Usage project
Digital Access Solutions: Report on investigations for possible pilot studies - Dataset
No full textThis is the dataset that supports the finding in the Digital Access Solutions: Report on investigations for possible pilot studies. It consists of over 1000 titles supplied by 10 UK Higher Education institutions of books which are requested in reading lists but which are not available as ebooks
Review of Open Access Policy Dependencies
No full textKnowledge Exchange analysed the extent to which OA policies are dependent on a number of non-commercial, compliance-enabling services used by researchers and institutions.
This work offers clear evidence to policy makers on the importance of a number of non-commercial services to the successful implementation of OA policies. It also shows that many of these services are at risk and warrant further support in financial and/or governance terms.
The summary report (available here) includes an analysis of a wide range of OA services and policies currently in use and presents:
• an analysis of the common elements found in the current OA policies adopted by research funders and institutions
• a set of case studies that illustrate the direct or indirect dependency of OA policies on key services
• the views of stakeholders on the key services that enable compliance with OA policies
• use cases, presented in accessible formats and language for a non-technical audience
• a set of priorities for action if OA policies are to be successfully implemente
EMA podcast: improving processes through the electronic management of assessment
No full textAn audio podcast involving interviews from universities talking about electronic management of assessment business processes and systems
Research Software Sustainability: Report on Knowledge Exchange Workshop
No full textThe report introduces software sustainability, provides definitions, clearly demonstrates that software is not the same as data and illustrates aspects of sustainability in the software lifecycle. The recommendations state that improving software sustainability requires a number of changes: some technical and others societal, some small and others significant. We must start by raising awareness of researchers’ reliance on software. This goal will become easier if we recognise the valuable contribution that software makes to research – and reward those people who invest their time into developing reliable and reproducible software.
The adoption of software has led to significant advances in research. But if we do not change our research practices, the continued rise in software use will be accompanied by a rise in retractions. Ultimately, anyone who is concerned about the reliability and reproducibility of research should be concerned about software sustainability.
Beside highlighting the benefits of software sustainability and addressing the societal and technical barriers to software sustainability, the report provides access to expertise in software sustainability and outlines the role of funders. The report concludes with a short landscape of national activities in Europe and outside Europe. As a result of the workshop steps will be explored to establish European coordination and cooperation of national initiatives