Making the most of your research equipment and facilitiesHow to use the national equipment portal

In this session

»The management of equipment and facilities»Two workflow examples: Cambridge and Strathclyde»Kit catalogue – a tailored database to manage your

equipment, being piloted as a potential Jisc service»University of Southampton and how the national portal

equipment.data works

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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities

Key facts

»Wakeham and Diamond reviews – cost savings and efficiencies from sharing equipment

»EPSRC – publish equipment over OJEU threshold»HEFCE and BIS – push for metrics to support increased

sharing and realising efficiencies

»Universities – house cleaning benefits

So what is the technical approach to sharing?

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The workflow

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Case studies

Cambridge University Strathclyde University

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Asset register

ORACLE based database lists all equipment

>£10k and newer than 2006

SES regional database

Asset register

PURE – current research

information system

ULAB – equipment

booking system

Kit catalogue

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Kit Catalogue

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Kit catalogue

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Kit Catalogue

Pilot institutions

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Asset management lifecycle reviewUniversity of Southampton use case

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University of Southampton asset workflow

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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities

University of Southampton “Research equipment asset lifecycle”

staff guide

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equipment.data – “The national research equipment

portal”»Linked open data approach

enables low entry requirement

»Simple keyword and distance

based searches»Automatically generates

institutional search page to share with your colleagues

»Data and technology is exploited by wider developments e.g. NCUB “Konfer” intelligent brokerage tool

12,115 items from 45 organisations

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Making the most of your research equipment and facilities

equipment.data - Discovered datasets

»12,115 items from 45 organisations

»Typically valued at £20K or above

Dataset providers

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equipment.data - Discovered datasets

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equipment.data

»What do you need to contribute?› Published facilities and equipment data http://

equipment.data.ac.uk/uniquip› An Organisation Profile Document (OPD)

http://opd.data.ac.uk› Embedded link in you home page header http://

opd.data.ac.uk/docs/auto

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jisc.ac.uk

Making the most of your research equipment and facilities

Questions?

Daniela Duca, JiscMartin Hamilton, Jisc

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Adrian Cox, University of Southampton