User:MartinPoulter Jisc

This account is for my work on the Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador project. For my work outside the project, as a Wikimedia UK volunteer, see User:MartinPoulter.

Activity log

• 2 September: Half day at UoB, half day at Jisc in Bristol. Meetings about education and about Jisc Digital Media. Circulated first draft of editathon sign-up form. More work on documentation. Got approval from Humphrey Southall for text of case study and use of images. Awaiting feedback on draft plan.
  • Action: investigate if I can be of assistance to British Geological Survey 3D virtual fossil collection Not done
  • Action: impact report on last year's WWI editathon Not done
• 30 August: Begin publicity for WikiVet editathon
• 29 August: Work on plan, contacts and dissemination material.
  • Action: draw documentation on J2W to attention of PLoS contact Not done
• 28 August: Skype meeting with Andrew from Jisc infoNet about development of the infoKit for this project. Other emails and work on dissemination material.
• 21 August: sent lots of emails to update contacts. Uploaded File:Journal publication timeline en.svg and File:Wiki2Journal publication timeline en.svg to illustrate Wiki to Journal publication.
• 20 August: half day. Catching up on emails. Put out call for suggestions for Wikisource brochure. Created template on WMUK wiki for flowchart.
• 5-19 August: On holiday, but part of this is at Wikimania so will be learning and writing Wikimedia-related stuff.
• 31 July: Skype meeting about Learning and Teaching
  • Action: set up meeting with Neil Jacobs in Bristol about repositories Doing...
• 30 July: Working on ideas for Oxford University event, other text, contacts and planning
  • Action: Investigate whether OSS Watch has advice relevant to Wikimedia Done Very positive article about MediaWiki- maybe nothing to improve on. MediaWiki not yet included in the list of OSS used in UK Universities. Will get in touch about this. Done OSS Watch is now independent rather than Jisc funded, but hadn't been announced on their home page.
  • Action: Investigate possibility of presence at Open Source Junction event Done Workshop on "how public sector organisations can make effective use of open source"/ "building public digital services" is possible, but not within scope of this project.
• 29 July: Phone meeting with Oxford University contact. Working on communications plan, infoKit specifications (looking at guidelines and existing infoKits) and communications for WikiVet editathon
  • Action: write up ideas for possible session and share them Done
  • Action: follow up on statistics for poetry archive: how many referrals from Wikipedia? Done
• 26 July: Skype meeting with WikiVet
  • Work on draft communications plan for editathon Done Shared and awaiting partner input
  • Answered query from Digitised Diseases Done
  • Action: follow up with Jisc infoNet about process for creating an infoKit Done
• 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 Done Arranging a training workshop
• 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 Done Waiting for HS to approve
• 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