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WRAP – Warwick Research Archive Project : final report
No full textWRAP's aim was to capitalise on the learning from early adopter institutional repository projects and build a repository for the University of Warwick that would further develop understanding of how repositories can meet the needs of their stakeholders.
Key objectives were to implement a repository for preprints, postprints and theses with the EPrints Open Source software, using SWAP, the Scholarly Works Application Profile, and the EThOS EPrints OAI plugin; to explore the potential for interoperability of the repository with other campus systems; to develop an infrastructure to receive around 350 theses a year; to attract participation by a range of departments and researchers; and to achieve a corpus of over 1500 items by project end.
IT Services, Library and Research Support Services staff comprised the project team: the Library as lead partner, with IT Services hosting the repository software and providing the technical expertise to integrate WRAP with the campus search engine, and Research Support Services providing linkage between WRAP and its Expertise/My Profile system (which contains information about Warwick researchers, including publication details).
The project team worked with a small set of pilot academic Departments in the earlier stages of the project in order to assess effective advocacy approaches and to obtain content prior to the repository being made live. Additional Departments were included as the project progressed and awareness of WRAP increased through promotion at meetings of academic groups, University committees and internal events.
WRAP has been implemented as a full-text only repository to expose and emphasise Warwick research excellence. The project team also adopted a mediated submission process combined with creation of high quality metadata, including full Library of Congress Subject Headings, to maximise discoverability, interoperability and provide future-proofing.
Although content submission levels are very good technical delays when implementing SWAP with EPrints, combined with the time and effort required to create high quality metadata, have significantly impacted on record creation and ability to meet the initial volume target. However, as the project closes WRAP has achieved many of its aims and objectives, including its primary purpose of providing a repository service that is embedded within the institution. In particular, WRAP has implemented the SWAP metadata schema with EPrints software, obtained an institutional mandate for submission of e-theses, developed procedures for populating the repository, integrated WRAP with the campus search engine, and created a mechanism for transfer of content to and from the Expertise/My Profile system. In addition, the WRAP team has both contributed to and made good use of the range of initiatives and shared infrastructure services sponsored by JISC to support IR developments. Learning from and sharing this experience has been a large part of the project, making it a valuable initiative not only for the University of Warwick but also for the wider repositories community, both in the UK and abroad
Check It Out : University of Warwick Library launches the hottest session on campus
No full textThe University of Warwick Library mission is: “Connecting you with information, support and your community.”
To help connect our new students as quickly and effectively as possible with information, support and their community the Library - through its induction planning – offers generic induction sessions (alongside subject-focused information) in weeks 0-3 of each new academic year.
This in turn supports the University’s key strategic priorities to ensure students receive a “high quality and distinctive student experience.”
For the last two years the Library has been running ‘Check it Out’ induction programmes. This submission describes the 2010/11 induction programme and how an increased focus on marketing led to a 717% increase in take up of the programme and increased recognition, understanding and engagement with the Library and the Library brand
Notes on the design of a barrel shifter for the Warwick pipelined CORDIC processor
No full textThis document discusses the design decisions made during the design of the barrel shifters used in the floating point adjustment circuitry of the Warwick pipelined CORDIC processor. The barrel shifter is required for both the input (mantissa alignment) and output (post normalistion) parts of the floating data path, although it also has applications in other areas such as a bit field extraction and multiplication/division. A brief survey of the available techniques will be given, followed by a discussion of the design process for the Barrel shifters in our implementatioof the CORDIC algorith
The Warwick ELT Archive Catalogue [3rd edition]
No full textThe most recently updated version of the Warwick ELT Archive catalogue (publ. December 2013) can be accessed by clicking on the following links or on the book cover images below):
The Warwick ELT Archive Catalogue (3rd edition, 2013), Part I: Published material (up to 1979).
The Warwick ELT Archive Catalogue (3rd edition, 2013), Part 2: Archival / Unpublished Items.
The Warwick ELT Archive Catalogue (3rd edition, 2013), Part 3: Selected items published from 1980 onwards
Interview with Robert Warwick
No full textInterview with Robert (Bob) Warwick. Bob Warwick has been involved in the finances and growth of Wilmington since 1958. In addition, he has served on UNCW's Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, and Foundation Board
Buckingham, Warwick. Warwick Buckingham, March 20, 2012. Corner Brook
No full textDale Jarvis interviews Warwick Buckingham regarding his mill basket , Corner Brook
Memoirs, the University of Warwick 1970-1989 : (And the rise of Warwick Business School)
No full textProf Robert Dyson, initially a research mathematician and senior systems technologist at Pilkington Plc (1964-70), joined the University of Warwick, School of Industrial and Business Studies in 1970 as a lecturer. These memoirs chart his personal experiences and the development of the University over the next two decades, following a period of turbulence and student protest in the late 1960s, through a programme of renewal and development that resulted in Warwick Business School (WBS) becoming one of the leading business schools of Europe.
Prof Dyson had a crucial role in this transformation as Chairman of WBS 1978-81 and later as a member of the senior management team that implemented the changes in the mid and late 1980's. He was later appointed Dean of WBS (1998-2000) and now holds the position of Emeritus Professor in the Operational Research & Management Sciences Group
Processes of 'positive multiculturalism' in practice : an extended case study with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC)
No full textThis thesis consists of three distinct but interconnecting case studies that took place
between 2007 and 2010 in collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC), Britain’s
second largest multi-arts venue. The study developed practice-led methods to
investigate the dynamic interactions between notions and perceptions of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘internationalism’ in relation to WAC’s theatre and performance
programming and education activities. The first case study is a qualitative audience
reception study designed to make sense of WAC’s programme in relation to
multicultural and international issues. The second case study focuses on an
educational outreach project that placed two local schools in collaboration with a
commissioned teacher-artist and a University of Warwick academic. These
encounters inspired the final case study, which made use of WAC’s newly built
Creative Space as a site for a devising project with young people from nearby
Coventry, culminating in a performance for an invited audience.
The thesis explores the varied complexities that frame ‘multiculturalism’ by focusing
on its origins as a political concept in post-1945 Britain and its subsequent
association with contemporary contentious social, political and cultural national and
international issues. An analysis of the negative effects of ‘multiculturalism’ is
balanced by considerations of the project’s emergent concepts: ‘hospitality’ and
‘conviviality’, which articulate the possibilities of living in diversity in more ‘positive’
terms. These paradigms reverberate throughout each case study, informing their
methodologies, influencing their conceptual frameworks and placing
‘multiculturalism’ in more dynamic and relevant dimensions of pedagogical and
creative practices. Each case study considers collaboration between strangers and
investigates the potential of WAC as a hospitable and convivial environment. These
new perspectives demonstrate the optimistic possibilities of creative and humane
action for producing a ‘positive multiculturalism’
Exploring ‘Flatland’s’ Future during Materials Week at Warwick
No full textMaterials have been at the heart of humankind’s development since our beginning. Recently, a new family of materials have emerged that promise to revolutionise our technologies. These are materials that are only one atom thick, truly two-dimensional. From 1 to 5 of February 2016, Warwick hosted Materials Week, which brought together students, researchers, and the public to discuss materials research at Warwick. This critical reflection piece looks at the events in Materials Week that focused on the emerging field of 2D materials: a workshop to discuss 2D materials in composites and electrochemistry; a colloquium by Professor Jonathan Coleman, a leader in the production of 2D materials; and finally a lecture from Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov, one of the two researchers who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for having started the 2D revolution
And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States. The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
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