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Near Future Data, Near You BITS MAGAZINE Issue 20, Spring 2018 Sharing news and stories across Information Services Group and the University Near future data, near you Data- Driven New Web Extending 60 second Innovation Search Digimap interview – page 02 – page 04 – page 09 – page 13 BITS MAGAZINE Editor in Chief: Melissa Highton Managing Editor: Lauren Tormey Editors: Susan Watson, Marco Polvara Editorial team: Eva Barrett, David Bonas, Alex Delipalta, Angela Laurins, Jo Newman, Garry Scobie Design and production: Editorial Graphic Design Service, LTW, ISG, The University of Edinburgh www.ed.ac.uk/is/graphic-design Published by: Our featured theme for this issue is Data-Driven Innovation, inside and Information Services Group, The University of outside Information Services Group. We have services and projects in Edinburgh ISG which provide ‘near future data, near you, now’ to support decision Contributions, contact and distribution queries: making across the University community. We also provide infrastructure Email: [email protected] and tools which will benefit people across the local regions as part of BITS on the Web: www.ed.ac.uk/is/bits the City Region Deal. Our feature article on pages 2-3 highlights our Printed by: J Thomson Colour Printers contribution to developing new capabilities and capacity. Our teams in ISG continue to grow and change in response to the needs of the University. In this issue, we welcome Gosia Such, our new Director of User Services. Our Head of Research Services, David Fergusson, is the subject of our 60 second interview on page 13. If you require this publication in an You can keep up to date with our activities, news and exhibitions via alternative format, please contact our social media channels, newsletters and websites. We have a Viki Galt, Disability Information Officer wide range of engagement activities planned this year in response to growing demand. In February teams across ISG offered more than 20 on 0131 650 6645 or email events, workshops, showcases, hacks and hands-on activities to staff [email protected] and students during this year’s Festival of Creative Learning Week. We explored augmented and virtual reality, adventure story games, animated gifs, paper circuits, archive collections, digital skills, painting on vellum, medieval pigments and medieval perspectives on information security. SUBMISSION DETAILS Our engagement events fill up quickly and waiting lists show how keen members of the University are to get started with new digital ideas. If you If you would like to submit an article, or tell would like to have a session run specifically for your group or students, us about some news, please email: please let us know. [email protected] The deadline for submissions for the next issue of BITS is 18 May 2018. To keep up to date with IS news: www.ed.ac.uk/is/news Melissa Highton FSC LOGO Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Sharing news and stories across Information Services Group and the University ISG news New people Store and transfer your data securely Gosia Such Andrew Todd Gosia Such joined the ISG Senior Management Team in January as Director of User Services. The University is expanding its support to the research User Services Directorate provides frontline community by delivering a state-of-the-art Data Safe Helpdesk services to our students and staff, Haven environment. on-site library support across all campuses, The service provides a secure analytic environment, IS Helpline and operational 2nd line support, secure file transfer protocol for receipt of sensitive including printing and card services. data and provision of a range of analytic (SPSS, STATA, SAS and R) and supporting software. Longer Gosia previously worked in the manufacturing industry, namely term we will offer high-power compute options and Heineken International, where she managed IT Global Service will attain the ISO27001 certification for best practice Provision for 80 countries. Previous to Heineken, Gosia worked in information security. in Service Management at ATOS and RBS, bringing 20 years of experience in IT Service and Operational Management. Access is gained via an assigned ‘Yubikey’ and secure VMware Horizon Client. This allows trusted and I am very excited to be joining the University authorised researchers to analyse linked individual- of Edinburgh, where diversity takes level data while maintaining the utmost confidentiality. precedence and allows for out-of-the-box thinking. I am very passionate about quality Inclusive and providing world-class service, and I look forward to ensuring the best user experience Workplace award to our students, staff and affiliates. Viki Galt We are delighted to have been awarded the SUSE (Scottish Union of Supported Employment) Inclusive Wikidata in the classroom Workplace award. Gavin McLachlan accepted the award, on behalf of ISG, at the SUSE annual Ewan McAndrew conference in December where it was presented by Data Science for Design MSc MSP Jamie Hepburn, the Minister for Employability students volunteered to analyse, and Training. model, import and visualise data This new award requires workplaces to undertake about 3,219 accused witches a written assessment on their support, procedures and 3,211 witch trials (spanning and policies regarding disabled staff (including 1563 to 1736) from the Survey of recruitment, promotion and reasonable adjustments). Scottish Witchcraft database into In addition, seven disability awareness training Wikidata. Wikipedia’s newest sister sessions were provided by Enable, focusing on project, Wikidata is an online hub autism spectrum conditions and learning disabilities. of machine-readable, structured, linked open data. The project aided the students’ data literacy through the practical application of working with a real- world dataset. Surfacing this data on a multilingual open platform where it can link to and leverage from other related datasets may, in turn, fuel discoveries and shed light on a little understood period of Scottish history. ISG news 1 BITS MAGAZINE Data-Driven Innovation: 'Near future data, near you' Gavin McLachlan, Chief Information Officer and Librarian to the University Mark Baillie, Communications & PR Manager for the City Region Deal Support for technology across the region is a new strategic priority for ISG. As part of the City Region Deal – the £1.1 billion investment to fund major infrastructure projects in Edinburgh and the surrounding region – the University will play a central role in the development of Data-Driven Innovation to make our region the ‘Data Capital of Europe’. The new Data Economy will be a growth area for new jobs, companies and industry. In developments such as SMART cities, Personalised Health, SMART transport and SMART Tourism, advanced use of data drives value and understanding for new services. Institutes such as the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Bayes Centre, Easter Bush Campus and Usher Institute will directly lead innovation programmes. The 15-year programme will increase the contribution of research and graduate skills to the region’s economy, launching more spinout companies, attracting start-ups and established businesses and driving investment. ISG will support all of these institutes and contribute directly by managing the new Southeast Scotland City Region Internet of Things (IoT) education, Digimap and Digiscience for Schools, data education courses and an Innovation and Research network. Data-Driven Innovation will be across the whole city region, We aim to accelerate growth by investing consisting of Edinburgh, the in infrastructure, skills and innovation to Lothians, Fife and the Borders. support significant improvements in the region’s economic performance. Gavin McLachlan, CIO, ISG The DDI Programme will include the Easter Bush Campus, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Usher Institute and Robotarium — a partnership Our services for Digimap for Schools and with Heriot-Watt University. new tools for digiscience will provide the platforms for young people in schools in the six local authorities across the DDI launch events region to learn with their teachers how to use data to solve problems and find new To mark the launch of the Data-Driven Innovation Programme, we’re hosting roadshow events in April ways of thinking. They will work with the and May in all main campus areas. Join us to find out data which is near to their own schools more about the Programme and the opportunities for and homes to understand how the world academic staff. around them works. Book your place now: edin.ac/ddi-launch Janet Roberts, EDINA Director, ISG 2 Sharing news and stories across Information Services Group and the University Capital of Euro ata pe” D ice “ Serv Prod blic iciency uctiv Pu Eff ity m & (G for VA Re ) R C d e o e n s n n o itute ea (e s i ti Inst r f u a p er c fi m tr o h h c d Us ie e 0 A n r 0 t m B ,0 e 0 a r n 0 k e 1 Health & Public e f t i s t Social Care Sector s ) In the context of a citywide E e Digital ls a Financial d e r kil nd t S T i network for the Internet of Things, c Tech l a Services n n ta l n i e b e n g I e i u t n i C l r D i g w s s h connections can be made that a e e World Class r y F d R a u I c Space & t B Data n i Fintech u link together civic, cultural and v Satellite r m Infrastructure e e o s s n t I m o Data n c s private activities to foster an open s D t e t t E n n T i i g e t e t a i l u Robotics & t a s a Tourism & t l T a e l e S d t innovation environment.
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