Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 1

The JISC Innovation Base

David Millard (University of Southampton)

Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting education and research

Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 2

“Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.”

Dr Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) Ghostbusters, 1984

Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 3

Admissions Team

Description

Admissions Process

Definition

XCRIStandards

Role: Admissions

Tutor

Role: Admissions Administrato

r

Role: Admissions

Manager

Standard:XCRI-CAP

Software:ACME

Admissions

ACMEAdmissions

System

Activity: Establish

Acceptance Criteria

Activity: Process

Applications

Activity: Interview

Applicants

Activity: Advertise Courses

Activity: Send out

Offers

Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 4

Software:ACME

Admissions

ACMEAdmissions

System

XCRIStandards

Standard:XCRI-CAP

Admissions Team

Description

Role: Admissions

Tutor

Role: Admissions Administrato

r

Role: Admissions

Manager

Admissions Process

Definition

Activity: Establish

Acceptance Criteria

Activity: Process

Applications

Activity: Interview

Applicants

Activity: Advertise Courses

Activity: Send out

Offers

Interface 1: Knowledge Base

Tools help people to author their outputs as proper knowledge structures in the IB KB

Advantage: Promotes proper structure, with fine grained interconnected items

Challenge: Creating highly structured information can be difficult for non-experts

Interface 1: Knowledge Base

Tools help people to author their outputs as proper knowledge structures in the IB KB

Advantage: Promotes proper structure, with fine grained interconnected items

Challenge: Creating highly structured information can be difficult for non-experts

Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 5

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Joint Information Systems Committee 11/04/23 | slide 7

Admissions Team

Description

Admissions Process

Definition

XCRIStandards

Role: Admissions

Tutor

Role: Admissions Administrato

r

Role: Admissions

Manager

Standard:XCRI-CAP

ACMEAdmissions

System

Software:ACME

Admissions

Activity: Establish

Acceptance Criteria

Activity: Process

Applications

Activity: Interview

Applicants

Activity: Advertise Courses

Activity: Send out

Offers

Interface 2: Wiki

Tools allow large descriptions (documents) to gradually evolve into proper structures

Advantage: Lower entry barrier and easy for non-experts to use

Challenge: To encourage users to continue to add structure and increase complexity

Interface 2: Wiki

Tools allow large descriptions (documents) to gradually evolve into proper structures

Advantage: Lower entry barrier and easy for non-experts to use

Challenge: To encourage users to continue to add structure and increase complexity

Software Lifecycle

Google Blogger

Online Blog Editors (4) Desktop Blog Editors (2) Mobile Blog Editors (1)

Blog Editors (7)

Blog Tools (8)

Blog Analysis Tools (1)

What is this?

Content First

Content First

Software Lifecycle

Lifecycle: Research Project

What is this?

Stage 1: Call

Stage 2: Bidding

Stage 3: Startup

Stage 4: Running

Stage 5: Dissemination

Stage 6: Reporting

Lifecycle: Marketing

Google BloggerBlog Editors (7)

Content First

Content First

Joint Information Systems Committee

Innovation Base Summary

11/04/23 | slide 10

• Place to record community outputs…• … and link then together to form a powerful knowledge base

Software Lifecycle

Lifecycle: Research Project

What is this?

Stage 1: Call

Stage 2: Bidding

Stage 3: Startup

Stage 4: Running

Stage 5: Dissemination

Stage 6: Reporting

Lifecycle: Marketing

Google BloggerBlog Editors (7)

KB Interface Wiki Interface