making the most of your research equipment and facilities
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Making the most of your research equipment and facilitiesHow to use the national equipment portal
In this session
»The management of equipment and facilities»Two workflow examples: Cambridge and Strathclyde»Kit catalogue – a tailored database to manage your
equipment, being piloted as a potential Jisc service»University of Southampton and how the national portal
equipment.data works
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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities
Key facts
»Wakeham and Diamond reviews – cost savings and efficiencies from sharing equipment
»EPSRC – publish equipment over OJEU threshold»HEFCE and BIS – push for metrics to support increased
sharing and realising efficiencies
»Universities – house cleaning benefits
So what is the technical approach to sharing?
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The workflow
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Case studies
Cambridge University Strathclyde University
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Asset register
ORACLE based database lists all equipment
>£10k and newer than 2006
SES regional database
Asset register
PURE – current research
information system
ULAB – equipment
booking system
Kit catalogue
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Kit Catalogue
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Kit catalogue
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See jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/equipment-sharing3/03/2016 Making the most of your research equipment and facilities
Kit Catalogue
Pilot institutions
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Asset management lifecycle reviewUniversity of Southampton use case
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University of Southampton asset workflow
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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities
University of Southampton “Research equipment asset lifecycle”
staff guide
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equipment.data – “The national research equipment
portal”»Linked open data approach
enables low entry requirement
»Simple keyword and distance
based searches»Automatically generates
institutional search page to share with your colleagues
»Data and technology is exploited by wider developments e.g. NCUB “Konfer” intelligent brokerage tool
12,115 items from 45 organisations
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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities
equipment.data - Discovered datasets
»12,115 items from 45 organisations
»Typically valued at £20K or above
Dataset providers
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equipment.data - Discovered datasets
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equipment.data
»What do you need to contribute?› Published facilities and equipment data http://
equipment.data.ac.uk/uniquip› An Organisation Profile Document (OPD)
http://opd.data.ac.uk› Embedded link in you home page header http://
opd.data.ac.uk/docs/auto
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jisc.ac.uk
Making the most of your research equipment and facilities
Questions?
Daniela Duca, JiscMartin Hamilton, Jisc
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Adrian Cox, University of Southampton