Tag Archives: BRII

BRII Blue Pages

March 3, 2010 – 11:50 am

Creating Oxford University Blue Pages is one of the objectives of the BRII Project (see http://brii.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.) The Blue Pages will be a directory of expertise. Through them you will be able to search for research activities and experts in Oxford University. As I see it, it will be a sort of mega tool allowing you to see what is in Oxford’s Research Information Infrastructure from

By Cecilia | Posted in blue pages, stakeholder analysis | Comments (0)

Stakeholder Buy-in

March 3, 2010 – 11:48 am

On the 9th of June we hosted an Assembly. The topic was Stakeholder buy-in and we invited participants from other 6 JISC-funded projects and a representative from the JISC. (Find the programme here.) Our aim was to have a small but friendly gathering where we could exchange ideas, issues and problems related to stakeholder engagement. Basically what we asked presenters was to share their

By Cecilia | Posted in event, stakeholder | Comments (0)

Stakeholder Analysis Report

March 3, 2010 – 11:47 am

I have been busy these last weeks writing the BRII Stakeholder Analysis report. It is almost ready! I hope to have it finished by next week. Sally has already read it and she has made some suggestions. I am working on them now.This report has over 13 thousand words (35 pages), and it will probably reach 14 thousand as I will write an executive summary after I finish it. To carry out this study I

By Cecilia | Posted in event, report, stakeholder analysis | Comments (0)

Developing the Bluepages

March 3, 2010 – 11:45 am

The BRII project is very much on track.I finished the Stakeholder and User needs Analysis. Will be ready for distribution soon.Ben has been working on the development of the foundations of the Research Information Infrastructure (RII). He has also created an online store for the vocabularies resulting from the BRII project. The vocab site has been given a single, central location in Oxford and

By Cecilia | Posted in blue pages, mock-up, user tests, vocabularies | Comments (0)

Stakeholder Analysis report is ready

March 3, 2010 – 11:43 am

The BRII Stakeholder Analysis report is ready and available in PDF format from here. Any comments about the report are welcome. (Click on comments below or email me.)

By Cecilia | Posted in project milestone, report | Comments (0)

BluePages – User Tests 1

March 3, 2010 – 11:43 am

Anusha, Monica and I have finished a first (short) round of user tests. We got very interesting feedback from them which we will use to design a first online version of the BluePages. We will have a second round in maybe a month time.In the mean time I am going to give you a brief overview of the process we designed for the user tests.We recruited a small number of testers from within the Library

By Cecilia | Posted in mock-up, user tests | Comments (0)

BRII Inside O.R.

March 3, 2010 – 11:40 am

This week I got a copy of the Inside O.R. magazine – November issue with a short article about BRII. I wrote this article after the OR51 conference (Operational Research) where I presented a paper called Making Sense of Research Activity Information in the Information Systems stream.Thanks to Rajan Anketell, Inside O.R. editor.Click here to download whole issue.

By Cecilia | Posted in blue pages, dissemination | Comments (0)

Blue Pages – User Tests 2

March 3, 2010 – 11:40 am

After 3 intense weeks Anusha, Monica and I have completed a second round of user tests. This time no mock ups but with the real thing, which of course is the Blue Pages v0.00 :) We did 15 tests with a selection of academics, students, administrators and one research facilitator. Again feedback has proved to be an eye opener, and is helping us on our design.Tests lasted an average of 45 minutes

By Cecilia | Posted in blue pages, user tests | Comments (0)

BRII’s Entity Store

March 3, 2010 – 11:40 am

In our internal meetings we use the term Registry or Entity Registry to refer to the Research Information Infrastructure. Wanting to know a bit more about the meaning and technological features of such kind of store I asked Anusha. She gave me the following lecture:Cecilia: What is an Entity Registry and what is the difference with conventional stores?Anusha: Lets first list our entities, so we

By Cecilia | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

What is going on in BRII

March 3, 2010 – 11:38 am

Since September we have been carrying out user tests of the Oxford Blue pages. These tests have been very useful to improve the Blue Pages usability and to get the perspectives of potential users. These perspectives were not limited to the Blue Pages but to the BRII registry. After seeing the Blue Pages testers asked about the sources of data and the processes of updating these in the registry.

By Cecilia | Posted in event, user tests | Comments (0)
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