Andrew Stewart (andystew)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Apr 15, 2009, follows 8 people, 5 public groups, 210 public bookmarks (210 total).

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November Update on 2010-06-08
October Update on 2010-06-08
- recent devleopment of a 'guest blogger' to try and engage the community more directly
- University of Manchester recently made the decision to adopt a
  modified version of the sossoon platform initially to develop its internal community and create channels for commercial opportunities.
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- - Faculty of Performance Visual Arts and Communications resulted in agreement to explore the use LIN as a forum for external relations for the faculty.
  - CAMPUS PR have been enagaged to help build the community and provide a range of promotional text.
KHIS Rollout « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
- excellent feedback, the rollout of accounts to other individuals and groups within the universities has begun.
- underpinned by a bespoke security model which allows access to data to be customised on a per user basis.
- 3 more annotation(s)...
- - four levels of access can be granted:
  - a single user, a collection of users, all users with access to a specific project, or globally to all users.
  - At one university, for example, a group of accounts has been set up for staff from a research centre.
Championing KHIS « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
- users were able to contribute to the new system, right from when it was simply a few rough sketches on a whiteboard. KHIS 2.0 was actually devised to address several fundamental problems with KHIS 1.5 identified during Champions meetings.
  
  As KHIS 2.0 progressed, the meeting was used to identify and prioritise problems, and plan solutions.
Bug Swatting « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
- Automatic error logging
- TRAC bug reporting system is used to allow users to lodge tickets
- 4 more annotation(s)...
- - anomaly with missing data, or a user might want to request an additional system feature
  - nominated representatives from our five partner universities (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside) meet with the KHIS development team to discuss problems and ongoing development work.
  - identifying problems, eliciting feedback and educating the users about how to use the new system
  - By actively involving the users in this forum, their trust in the new system has steadily increased.
Full Speed Ahead « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
- the biggest gripe reported by users was the slow system speed
- archive criteria
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- - Functionality was then added to the system to allow archived data to be searched if required. By default, though, searches are set to only search non-archived data.
  - Involving the users in addressing the problem subsequently led to a greater buy-in in KHIS 2.0
  - As SQL Server is more resource intensive than ColdFusion (the language KHIS is written in), it was decided to reverse the roles of the servers
  - The server roles were swapped in several stages and, once everything had been implemented, performance was found to have improved even further.
KHIS 2.0 User Manual « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
KHIS 2.0 now live at Knowledge House. « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
- Each site has nominated 1-2 ‘training champions’ who will be trained in a 2 hour session with KHIS developers Rachel Armstrong and Paul Cranner. It is then expected that these champions can be the initial point of contact at each site for any KHIS 2.0 user enquiries.
- running too slowly to be useable
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- - data in the database which is marked as ‘project closed’ with a creation date of over 24months would be archived and a ‘search the archive’ functionality be updated to all searches. The database has also be transferred to a more powerful server and feedback has been positive, with users commenting on increased speed.
Inaugural Post « Knowledge House Information System project updates on 2010-06-08
YouTube - Etienne Wenger on OPEN-i and the MAPJD on 2010-06-07

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