July already!

We had the first team meeting of the DIVAS project this morning, unfortunately Chris couldn't be there but I sent him the meeting notes. We went through the project plan and hopefully we've all got a good idea of where we are going. We spoke about how we see the project and agreed upon a vision. Users come to the system, put in their requirements eg, I want to see all the validations over the last 2 years that are in Humanities, at masters level and delivered online - a set of reports come back and then the user can see if there are any common features, for example, all validation panels have asked about staff training. Or if there aren't any, perhaps the user can go to the community of practice in NING and ask if anybody can help.

A number of actions came out of the meeting, I need to arrange several meeting and I need to email somebody involved in SURF to see if the colleges want to join in. Sue KB is looking at getting a list of the award leaders and she and Hamza are thinking about how to get the NING off to a flying start in Sept. It was thought that it was better to leave until Sept as so many people are out of the university at this time of year.

The next push is to get some real data into the HIVE repository for Ben and Chris to look at so hopefully over summer we can identify some useful validation reports. Interestingly Jenny wondered how we could perhaps capture the issues raised at validations that are not necessarily recorded in the validation reports - food for thought.

Sue