User:MartinPoulter/Oxford

From October 2016 to October 2017 I am working as WIR at the University of Oxford, based in the Bodleian Libraries.

Activity log

March

• 30 March: Preparing for next week's talks. Finishing NT briefing. Meeting with Lucy Tallents to discuss educational resources.
• 29 March: Meet Jacob Dahl about Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative; Making example queries to show what's possible with CDLI IDs; interview with Work In Progress podcast
• 28 March: Read up on Fell fund and write idea for project proposal
• 23 March: Correspondence about Eighteenth Century Poetry Archive and custom queries. Writing up progress on ORA. Getting blog post published
• 22 March: Speak to BDLSS staff meeting about Wikidata for citations and for cultural heritage. Follow up queries about Meet John Mittelmeier and create some custom queries for his research.
• 21 March: Various correspondence. Email David Zeitlyn with suggestions about improving Wikipedia about topics in Cameroon.
• 8 March: Presentation to Digital Humanities Working Group. Meeting with Oxford University Press. Follow-up email to OUP contacts. Fixing some things that went wrong in ORA data upload, and creating custom queries to view these data.
• 7 March: Reporting (x3) meeting Cultures of Knowledge, various project work.
• 6 March: Team away-day (attending for half day)
• 3 March: Tidy up and import of 3238 ORA records; Propose a "dissertation for" property on Wikidata. Prepare and deliver training session.
• 2 March: Tidying up ORA data, finding connections to Wikipedia and investigating methods of import. / Various correspondence
• 1 March: Meeting Alexandra Franklin about Curzon Collection. Fixing some of the data errors with the Curzon uploads and making a list of affected files. Further corrections (dates) to follow in the Summer. Finishing writing up public engagement workshop and Wikidata workshop

February

• 28 February: Writing up advice on using Wikimedia projects for public engagement
• 22 February: Meeting Cory about data import: working on data checking and ways of automating. Meeting David Zeitlyn about anthropology. Other correspondence & paperwork
• 21 February: Preparing workshop on Wikidata visualisation; workshop cancelled, so writing up exercises as worksheets
• 20 February: Attending WMUK education day in London & co-running session
• 16 February: Sending publicity emails about forthcoming events. Preparing talk with Liz for Monday. Getting data dump from EE.
• 15 February: Getting Identity fusion article undeleted. Meeting Cultures of Knowledge team. Review meeting with Richard Nevell. Meeting with Cory. Mocking up some visualisations of EMLO data
• 14 February: Various correspondence
• 8 February: Reviewing job applications. Corresponding about events. Inducting assistant and replying to other applications
• 7 February: Reporting for This Month in GLAM. Writing up project idea for National Trust. Catching up on Wikidata developments
• 2 February: Meeting Jon Ray (GLAM Programme Manager) to discuss GLAM partnership project. Coding mockup of qLabel for use labelling exhibition spaces. WMUK Partnership advisory group meeting.
• 1 February: Arranging future meetings. Catch-up phone meeting with Richard Nevell. Cleaning and wikifying Oxford Research Archive data

January 2017

• 30 January: Compiling feedback from last Friday's workshop. Responding to job applications. Coming up with Wikidata graphs to showcase its abilities
• 27 January: Meeting Emma Stanford about Digital Bodleian and future bulk exports. Delivering Wikipedia training for trainers workshop
• 26 January: Speaking at meeting of communications, training and public engagement staff for Medicine. Some correspondence.
• 20 January: Attending all-day event on open access publishing
• 19 January: Running #1Lib1Ref lunchtime session. Working on handouts & slides for next week's training session. Meeting Dominic Oldman of ResearchSpace
• 18 January: Meeting with Martin Hadley about data visualisation/ Interactive Data Network project. Making some relevant Wikidata queries. Running #1Lib1Ref lunchtime session.
• 17 January: Audio meeting with Peter Findlay of Jisc. Getting fix for problem with laptop.
• 12 January: Working on data dump from Oxford Research Archive/ Bodleian staff meeting
• 11 January: Meeting with Andrew Fairweather-Tall about research collaborations. Finishing blog post, reading up on Wikidata projects around GLAMS and looking at/ amending Wikidata representation of Oxford's GLAMs
• 10 January: Writing blog post on Wikidata and art
• 5 January: Item for This Month in GLAM. Various correspondence
• 4 January: Report-writing for WMUK and Innovation fund. Writing proposal for Digital Humanities Summer School

December 2016

• 21 December: Meeting at IT Services about events for next term. Various correspondence about future events and projects
• 20 December: Reporting audio meeting with WMUK
• 15 December: Meeting with Electronic Enlightenment and Oxford Text Archive staff to plan future work
• 14 December: Meeting with Bryan Ward-Perkins of the Cult of Saints project. Project reporting meeting at IT Services. More work on case study
• 13 December: Writing up case study + work on Voltaire timelines
• 9 December: Communications team away-day
• 8 December: Various work on Voltaire timelines + meeting Robert McNamee of Electronic Enlightenment project
• 7 December: Meeting at Voltaire Foundation to explore possible activities. Meeting Fiona Mackintosh and Claire Kenward of Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD)
• 6 December: Various correspondence

November

• 24 November: WIR Summit in London
• 23 November: Meeting Peter McQuilton, OERC about Biosharing. Writing event proposals for Trinity term
• 22 November: Meeting Johnathan Prag, Merton College about two projects. Setting up other meetings
• 21 November: Exploring potential for import from Digital Bodleian
• 17 November: Correspondence about ORA data import & other stuff
• 16 November: Writing session proposal for OER 17 conference; some emails
• 10 November: Meeting about Oxford Collections. Creating briefing and custom query for hillfort images. Preparing and delivering 45-minute presentation for Ritual Modes staff (six attendees). Working on queries for WWI event
• 9 November: Various emails. Meeting to plan activity for IT Learning Programme
• 8 November: Meeting with WMUK for the start of the project
• 4 November: Preparing & delivering talk for Technology Enhanced Learning group. Some reporting, including This Month in GLAM. Setting up more speaking slots.
• 3 November: Meeting about Hillforts Atlas. Setting up meetings with various researchers
• 2 November: Phone call with Andrew F-T about reaching humanities academics; writing introductory message for researchers; more emails to re-establish contact
• 1 November: Writing introductory blog post + various email contacts

October

• 27 October: Working on data mapping for Atlas of Hillforts. Studying existing and recent Wikidata properties.
• 26 October: Rehearse and deliver 1-hour webinar for ALT OERSIG. More emails.
• 25 October: Sign employment contract and officially start work. Emailing contacts to advertise my services.
• 20 October: Prepare slides for webinar next week + test run with moderators
• 15 October: Deliver 1-hour workshop with Ylva Berglund-Prytz at Young Scientists Journal Conference
• 10 October: Prepare workshop materials for YSJ Conference