A Community of Developers Stimulating Innovation in UK Higher Education Sound Software – http://www.soundsoftware.ac.uk Monday 18 th June 2012, 16:45, onwards, Maths Lecture Theatre, Mathematical Sciences Building, Queen Mary University of London, England, UK. Mahendra Mahey ([email protected]) Project Manager of DevCSI Project UKOLN is supported by: www.ukoln.ac.u k A centre of expertise in digital information management #devcsi
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Presentation by Mahendra Mahey at the SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop.
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A Community of Developers StimulatingInnovation in UK Higher Education
Sound Software – http://www.soundsoftware.ac.ukMonday 18th June 2012, 16:45, onwards, Maths Lecture Theatre, Mathematical Sciences Building, Queen Mary University of London, England, UK.
• doing so in a very open , informal, playful, and fun environment
• contributing ideas
Building stuff!
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Open Repositories 2010 (Madrid) Developer Challenge• Enhance single metadata records with as
many automatically created, useful links to related external content as possible.
• used remote services to link data and add functionality
• bringing remote services to bear in a local context
• users, domain experts and developers collaborating successfully
Links Managed by Google doc
Enhanced Metadata Record
Richard Davis and Rory McNicholl from
University of London Computer Centre
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Case study• University of Kent ay Canterbury
• Manager’s View
• "They gained a huge amount. They came back very enthusiastic and full of good ideas. It did a great deal for morale and motivation…. It's a very powerful thing when your peers say that you are doing something the best,"
• “...decided to use the momentum of Dev8D to move forward with agile working and the List8D project by providing the development team with two very important assets: physical and mental space.”
• Local developers understand local context, act as bridge between remote service providers, open source communities, and local end users and add value by integrating into local contexts – 75% +
• Local developers work closely with end users to deliver innovation – 75% (more work needed though)
• Can be shared with sector – 88%
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Sustainability: community• Discussions valuable to peers and to JISC and
wider!
• Community needs to be developed and nurtured
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sustainability: support• events give commercial players direct
access to developers in the HE community, more sponsorship, setting challenges, testing
• this is commercial developers talking to HE developers, rather than commercial sales-people talking to IT managers in HE
• some have already recognised that this is an opportunity
• using a pool of HE developers to test and develop against their APIs - this is really valuable and very cheap
More evidence…• People know anecdotally that developers
bring value but where is the evidence?
• 10 case studies showing local developer impact but providing a balanced picture where more work needs to be done
1. Come up with ideas2. Group together 3. Categorise 4. Consider and choose the ideas
5. Get into groups 6. Work into the night 8. Present to audience
?9. Develop Further
7. Work during the day
Recent Examples…• Using Bit Torrent and SWORD 2 protocol to deal with Data
Sets in Institutional Repositories
• Visualisation of BBC data
• Used a (1907) Metric RDF graph structure that one group member had applied to molecule comparison context (Tanimoto coefficient), and applied this metric to BBC data overnight