User:MartinPoulter Jisc

This account is for my work on the Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador project.

Activity log

For my work outside the project, as a Wikimedia UK volunteer, see User:MartinPoulter.

• 29 July: Phone meeting with Oxford University contact
  • Action: write up ideas for possible session and share them Doing...
  • Action: follow up on statistics for poetry archive: how many referrals from Wikipedia?
  • Working on communications plan, infoKit specifications (looking at guidelines and existing infoKits) and communications for editathon
• 26 July: Skype meeting with WikiVet
  • Work on draft communications plan for editathon Doing...
  • Answered query from Digitised Diseases Done
  • Action: follow up with Jisc infoNet about process for creating an infoKit (31st July or after)
• 25 July: catching up on various actions.
  • Phone call with Digitised Diseases project about sharing images on Commons. Done
  • Query from Academic IT Services, University of Oxford: respond and find out what support needed Doing...
• 23 July: Meeting with University of Bristol accountant about contract for the project.
• 18 July: Visit to Jisc's offices in Bristol for meetings about education work and about comms. Drew up first attempt at comms plan for the project.
  • Action: new case studies being published about use of Wikipedia in education: where? Done This was a misunderstanding
  • Action: arrange webinar
  • Action: find out if the info pack produced by the project can be branded as an "infoKit" Done Answer seems positive
  • Action: explore possibility of JDM guide on Wikimedia Doing...
  • Action: get onto agenda of Learning and Teaching Experts Group meeting. Doing... Meeting on Wednesday 31st about this.
• 17 July: Further work on project plan, emails, meeting at Jisc Collections office about media hub.
  • Action: identify areas of content to focus on and feed back. Send information about Commons API for cross-searching.
• 16 July: Meeting at Jisc offices in London to work on the bulk of the project plan.
• 15 July: Skype meeting with Peter about planning
• 12 July: Still in planning/ stakeholder analysis phase
• 8/9 July: Work officially starts on the project, still in planning phase.
  • Action: Respond to query from WikiVet Done
  • Action: Write up Southall case study Doing...
• 6 July: Working on a briefing document and on on-wiki documentation
• 3 July: Attending Jisc Content programme final programme meeting in London
  • Met some Jisc staff and project holders in the area of content; Gave short talk advocating Commons and Wikisource as outlets for appropriately-licenced materials
  • Impressed at high level of interest in Wikipedia (mentioned in four of the day's presentations) and recognition of its place in the ecology of digital resources. There were widely varying levels of understanding of how Wikipedia works and how to engage with it, but that highlights a way this project can help.
  • Action: Recommend Wellcome Library contact for MRC editathons Done
  • Action: chase up Humphrey Southall for slides and education case study; Done interviewed
  • Action: investigate whether sea level data can be included in Wikidata; Doing... Needs to be included in Wikipedia first, then that example used in a proposal to Wikidata
  • Action: offer help to British Geological Survey contact with sharing 3D models; Done (Sent email with recommendation and offer of further help)
  • Action: Documentation of Wikisource (as part of planned activity, once the plan is agreed)
• 2 July
  • Action: Query from User:Trevj about access to old journals. Contact Jisc staff to discuss. Done
• 29 June/2 July Working on stakeholder analysis Doing...
• 21 June: Kickoff meeting at Jisc in London
  • Met some Jisc staff; discussed Jisc structure and management; discussions about crowdsourcing of research and community design; audio-conferenced with Daria and Toni about WMUK's support for/ requirements of project; discussions about project planning and logistics