Slides from a presentation given by Holly Large, Emma Sewell (in absentia) and Dr Chris Willmott at the launch of our guide on the use of BoB ("Box of Broadcasts" and TRILT (the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching) as tools for academic research. The launch event took place in London on 23rd September 2022.
Analysis of Broadcast Science as a Capstone ProjectChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation delivered virtually (via Zoom) on 20th May 2020, in the #DryLabsRealScience series as UK Universities seek to adapt some of their teaching and projects to online formats
About the Webinar
Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.
This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Building the Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries
KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery
Chad Hutchens, Head, Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries
What we learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative
Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University
COBWEB technology platform and future development needs, ISPRA 2016COBWEB Project
On 26 and 27 January 2016, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission invited international experts for a two-day workshop in Ispra (Italy) in order to discuss data and service infrastructures for Citizen Science. The participants were challenged to:
- identify the major requirements for Citizen Science project repositories and their relation to existing Citizen Science platforms;
- draft a reference model for analysing and sharing Citizen Science tools and data – with first examples;
- define a high-level roadmap with checkpoints for synchronising already ongoing activities.
More information on the workshop and other presentations can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/citizen-science-workshop
Analysis of Broadcast Science as a Capstone ProjectChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation delivered virtually (via Zoom) on 20th May 2020, in the #DryLabsRealScience series as UK Universities seek to adapt some of their teaching and projects to online formats
About the Webinar
Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.
This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Building the Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries
KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery
Chad Hutchens, Head, Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries
What we learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative
Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University
COBWEB technology platform and future development needs, ISPRA 2016COBWEB Project
On 26 and 27 January 2016, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission invited international experts for a two-day workshop in Ispra (Italy) in order to discuss data and service infrastructures for Citizen Science. The participants were challenged to:
- identify the major requirements for Citizen Science project repositories and their relation to existing Citizen Science platforms;
- draft a reference model for analysing and sharing Citizen Science tools and data – with first examples;
- define a high-level roadmap with checkpoints for synchronising already ongoing activities.
More information on the workshop and other presentations can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/citizen-science-workshop
Presentation on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the 2015 Society of American Archivists conference in Cleveland, Ohio. AAPB staff presented on the history of the project, website development, metadata, Online Reading Room, value to scholars and researchers, and digital preservation. Panelists included Karen Cariani, AAPB Director at WGBH, Casey Davis, AAPB Project Manager at WGBH, Alan Gevinson, AAPB Director at the Library of Congress, and James Snyder, Senior Systems Administrator at the Library of Congress.
The COBWEB Summit was held as a side event chaired by Chris Higgins at the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) 99th Technical and Planning Committee (TC/PC) Meeting.
The event was held at University College Dublin.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
On 28th June 2022, Census 2021 released their first results, followed by data covering eight topics and more recently launched a new ‘Create a custom dataset’ tool. We will take you through a tour of the products such as census maps, build a custom area profile, create your own custom dataset tool and pre-built tables, as well as census analysis plans and how you can carry out your own analysis using census data.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on Census data or on any Census topics.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
Open Access Barometer to Open Access Indicator: lessons learned from the jour...Mikael Elbæk
Monitoring a phenomenon has two remarkable effects; first it enables us to understand its properties and interact with the object or phenomenon in an informed way. The second effect (an interesting fact about social phenomenon such as publishing), is that when something is being monitored it tends to stimulate that which is being monitored. It was these facts that were the primary motivation for the Open Access Barometer – a pilot project funded by DEFF in 2013-2014. Firstly we simply didn’t know how much of the research coming out of Denmark were Open Access. Secondly we wanted to stimulate the growth of Open Access. The Danish Open Access Barometer project published a mapping of Open Access to Danish research articles and produced a prototype of a web-based Open Access barometer that through data harvest from all Danish universities could monitor the current state of Open Access (gold, green) daily and produce a number of interesting statistics including an Open Access-potential based on SHERPA/RoMEO data. In conclusion the project made a number of recommendations to monitoring Open Access and it was the hope that policy makers working with Open Access implementation would take up the idea of measuring Open Access – but we did not expect it.
However, in June 2014 the Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science announced the Danish strategy for Open Access – with two remarkable goals of 80% Open Access in 2017 to publications published in 2016 and topping this by 2022 where the goal is that all (100%) publications published in 2021 should be Open Access. In order to achieve these ambitious goals a high-profile steering committee was put together. One of the key focus areas are: “The implementation of Open Access is to be monitored on an ongoing basis to ensure that all parties make a maximum effort to develop and disseminate free accessibility to Danish research findings”. To specify and ultimately measure Open Access a working group was set-up – that in its mandate was to build on the outcomes and experiences of the former DEFF project The Danish Open Access Barometer. By January 2015 this group produced a specification, price estimate and production plan for this Open Access monitor. The name was changed to Open Access indicator and will measure Open Access to Danish research from January 2016.
The presenter of this contribution was project manager of the Danish Open Access Barometer and member of the Open Access indicator working group set-up by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Based on the Mikael K. Elbæk’s experience from this work the presentation will take you through:
• Definitions – what to measures, when to measure - an imperfect compromise
• Analysis and visualization – what kinds of statistics was decided to make public
Tom Mosterd - DOAB & OAPEN
Rupert Gatti - Thoth, COPIM and Open Book Publishers
The transition to open access for scholarly content such as books and journals enables research to be widely and freely available to readers worldwide. As publishers, funders, libraries and researchers are increasingly engaged in making scholarly books available open access (OA), how do these OA versions find their way through the supply chain for scholarly books? Which, for a large part, is built around print and digital (non-OA) books.
As part of this session we will hear from the OAPEN & Thoth team – two open metadata service providers that are part of the Open Book Collective and work together to increase discoverability for open access books. Jointly, we’ll take a closer look at the OA ebook supply chain and how these solutions contribute to bringing OA books to their readers, the challenges along the way and how we can ensure, collectively, that OA books are as (or more) discoverable compared to their closed counterparts.
Metadata Aggregation: Assessing the Application of IIIF and Sitemaps within C...Nuno Freire
In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources is made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings challenges to the discoverability and usage of the resources. A widely-used approach is metadata aggregation, where centralized efforts like Europeana facilitate the discoverability and use of the resources by collecting their associated metadata. This paper focuses on metadata aggregation in the domain of cultural heritage, where OAI-PMH has been the adopted solution. However, the technological landscape around us has changed. With recent technological accomplishments, the motivation for adopt-ing OAI-PMH is not as clear as it used to be. In this paper, we present the first results in attempting to rethink Europeana’s technological approach for metada-ta aggregation, to make the operation of the aggregation network more efficient and lower the technical barriers for data providers. We (Europeana and data providers) report on case studies that trialled the application of some of the most promising technologies, exploring several solutions based on the Interna-tional Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Sitemaps. The solutions were trialled successfully and leveraged on existing technology and knowledge in cultural heritage, with low implementation barriers. The future challenges lie in choosing among the several possibilities and standardize solution(s). Euro-peana will proceed with recommendations for its network and is actively work-ing within the IIIF community to achieve this goal.
How the use of multimedia enhances teaching, learning and researchChris Willmott
Slides from a webinar delivered by Dr Chris Willmott (University of Leicester) on behalf of Learning on Screen and Association of Learning Technologists (ALT).
Chris discussed the use of Box of Broadcasts (BoB) in university teaching, illustrating the potential with examples from his own practice. He also discussed the emerging potential of BoB as a tool for multimedia research
"Discussion boards don’t work": Evaluation of a course blog for teaching with...Chris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at the Horizons in STEM Higher Education (Virtual) Conference, 30th June 2021. I discussed an initiative in which students had been asked to contribute to a "Shared Resource Collection" instead of a terminal exam paper. The trial was only partially successful, as demonstrated by the data in the presentation (and additional data after the final "Any Questions" slide, which was not shared at the event.
Presentation on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the 2015 Society of American Archivists conference in Cleveland, Ohio. AAPB staff presented on the history of the project, website development, metadata, Online Reading Room, value to scholars and researchers, and digital preservation. Panelists included Karen Cariani, AAPB Director at WGBH, Casey Davis, AAPB Project Manager at WGBH, Alan Gevinson, AAPB Director at the Library of Congress, and James Snyder, Senior Systems Administrator at the Library of Congress.
The COBWEB Summit was held as a side event chaired by Chris Higgins at the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) 99th Technical and Planning Committee (TC/PC) Meeting.
The event was held at University College Dublin.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
On 28th June 2022, Census 2021 released their first results, followed by data covering eight topics and more recently launched a new ‘Create a custom dataset’ tool. We will take you through a tour of the products such as census maps, build a custom area profile, create your own custom dataset tool and pre-built tables, as well as census analysis plans and how you can carry out your own analysis using census data.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on Census data or on any Census topics.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
Open Access Barometer to Open Access Indicator: lessons learned from the jour...Mikael Elbæk
Monitoring a phenomenon has two remarkable effects; first it enables us to understand its properties and interact with the object or phenomenon in an informed way. The second effect (an interesting fact about social phenomenon such as publishing), is that when something is being monitored it tends to stimulate that which is being monitored. It was these facts that were the primary motivation for the Open Access Barometer – a pilot project funded by DEFF in 2013-2014. Firstly we simply didn’t know how much of the research coming out of Denmark were Open Access. Secondly we wanted to stimulate the growth of Open Access. The Danish Open Access Barometer project published a mapping of Open Access to Danish research articles and produced a prototype of a web-based Open Access barometer that through data harvest from all Danish universities could monitor the current state of Open Access (gold, green) daily and produce a number of interesting statistics including an Open Access-potential based on SHERPA/RoMEO data. In conclusion the project made a number of recommendations to monitoring Open Access and it was the hope that policy makers working with Open Access implementation would take up the idea of measuring Open Access – but we did not expect it.
However, in June 2014 the Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science announced the Danish strategy for Open Access – with two remarkable goals of 80% Open Access in 2017 to publications published in 2016 and topping this by 2022 where the goal is that all (100%) publications published in 2021 should be Open Access. In order to achieve these ambitious goals a high-profile steering committee was put together. One of the key focus areas are: “The implementation of Open Access is to be monitored on an ongoing basis to ensure that all parties make a maximum effort to develop and disseminate free accessibility to Danish research findings”. To specify and ultimately measure Open Access a working group was set-up – that in its mandate was to build on the outcomes and experiences of the former DEFF project The Danish Open Access Barometer. By January 2015 this group produced a specification, price estimate and production plan for this Open Access monitor. The name was changed to Open Access indicator and will measure Open Access to Danish research from January 2016.
The presenter of this contribution was project manager of the Danish Open Access Barometer and member of the Open Access indicator working group set-up by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Based on the Mikael K. Elbæk’s experience from this work the presentation will take you through:
• Definitions – what to measures, when to measure - an imperfect compromise
• Analysis and visualization – what kinds of statistics was decided to make public
Tom Mosterd - DOAB & OAPEN
Rupert Gatti - Thoth, COPIM and Open Book Publishers
The transition to open access for scholarly content such as books and journals enables research to be widely and freely available to readers worldwide. As publishers, funders, libraries and researchers are increasingly engaged in making scholarly books available open access (OA), how do these OA versions find their way through the supply chain for scholarly books? Which, for a large part, is built around print and digital (non-OA) books.
As part of this session we will hear from the OAPEN & Thoth team – two open metadata service providers that are part of the Open Book Collective and work together to increase discoverability for open access books. Jointly, we’ll take a closer look at the OA ebook supply chain and how these solutions contribute to bringing OA books to their readers, the challenges along the way and how we can ensure, collectively, that OA books are as (or more) discoverable compared to their closed counterparts.
Metadata Aggregation: Assessing the Application of IIIF and Sitemaps within C...Nuno Freire
In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources is made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings challenges to the discoverability and usage of the resources. A widely-used approach is metadata aggregation, where centralized efforts like Europeana facilitate the discoverability and use of the resources by collecting their associated metadata. This paper focuses on metadata aggregation in the domain of cultural heritage, where OAI-PMH has been the adopted solution. However, the technological landscape around us has changed. With recent technological accomplishments, the motivation for adopt-ing OAI-PMH is not as clear as it used to be. In this paper, we present the first results in attempting to rethink Europeana’s technological approach for metada-ta aggregation, to make the operation of the aggregation network more efficient and lower the technical barriers for data providers. We (Europeana and data providers) report on case studies that trialled the application of some of the most promising technologies, exploring several solutions based on the Interna-tional Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Sitemaps. The solutions were trialled successfully and leveraged on existing technology and knowledge in cultural heritage, with low implementation barriers. The future challenges lie in choosing among the several possibilities and standardize solution(s). Euro-peana will proceed with recommendations for its network and is actively work-ing within the IIIF community to achieve this goal.
How the use of multimedia enhances teaching, learning and researchChris Willmott
Slides from a webinar delivered by Dr Chris Willmott (University of Leicester) on behalf of Learning on Screen and Association of Learning Technologists (ALT).
Chris discussed the use of Box of Broadcasts (BoB) in university teaching, illustrating the potential with examples from his own practice. He also discussed the emerging potential of BoB as a tool for multimedia research
"Discussion boards don’t work": Evaluation of a course blog for teaching with...Chris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at the Horizons in STEM Higher Education (Virtual) Conference, 30th June 2021. I discussed an initiative in which students had been asked to contribute to a "Shared Resource Collection" instead of a terminal exam paper. The trial was only partially successful, as demonstrated by the data in the presentation (and additional data after the final "Any Questions" slide, which was not shared at the event.
Journal Club: Role of Active Learning on Closing Attainment GapChris Willmott
Slides from a Biological Sciences Scholarship of Learning & Teaching journal club held at the University of Leicester (UK) in May 2021. We discussed Theobald et al. (2020) Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math PNAS 117:6476-6483. Note slides relating to Fig 2 have been edited after the meeting to better reflect the discussion on the day.
Turning teaching innovations into education publicationsChris Willmott
Slides from a workshop run [online] on behalf of colleagues within Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester (UK). One or two of the slides are specific to local context, but most are pertinent for anyone wanting to get started in educational research by looking to make evaluation of their existing or future teaching initiatives more robust.
Measuring actual learning versus feelings of learning (Journal Club)Chris Willmott
Slides from Bioscience Pedagogic Research Journal Club meeting at the University of Leicester, UK. The meeting discussed "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom" a study by Louis Deslauriers and colleagues at Harvard University.
Do you know Bob? Adventures with technology-based resources for teaching (and...Chris Willmott
Slides from a presentation about the Box of Broadcasts resource, and creative uses of lecture capture technology. Talk given at the Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester in April 2019.
Adventures in Flipping the Teaching: A bioethical exampleChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at the AdvanceHE STEM Teaching and Learning Conference in January 2019. The talk is a warts and all description of a four year journey trying to develop flipped lectures for teaching core bioethics to second year undergraduates at the University of Leicester, UK
Teaching ethics in the UK: A Bioscience perspectiveChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given via Skype to the First International Bioethics Conference, on Teaching and Learning in Bioethics. The meeting was organised by Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation and held at the Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya in January 2019. The talk was a personal reflection on the teaching of ethics to bioscience students as it has occurred over the past 17 years or so.
A back-up version of the talk (in case of technical difficulties) was recorded and is available at https://youtu.be/JS--0SDAYTk.
Pedagogy Involving Capture Technology: Uses of Panopto beyond the recording o...Chris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at the Advance HE STEM Conference at Millennium Point, Birmingham in January 2019. The talk described the current status of the Pedagogy Involving Capture Technology (PICT) project, looking at innovative ways of using Lecture Capture tools for purposes over and above standard lecture recording.
As Seen On TV: Using broadcast media in university teachingChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at Lights, Camera, Learning: Teaching with the moving image - a conference held at Birkbeck, University of London in November 2018. The event marked the 70th anniversary of the setting up of the organisation known now as Learning on Screen (http://bufvc.ac.uk)
Not so flippin' easy: Adventures in "flipped teaching" in the biosciencesChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given to the Biological Sciences Scholarship of Teaching and Learning group at the University of Leicester (November 2018). The talk gave a step-by-step reflection on the evolution of bioethics teaching via a combination of online videos and face-to-face discussion of case studies. As noted, aspect of the process remain problematic.
As Seen On TV: Promoting the use of broadcast media in HEChris Willmott
Slides from a presentation given at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) in May 2018. The talk discussed work on developing resources to promote the use of television and radio in teaching.
Developing WordPress blogs as shared educational resources: some practical tipsChris Willmott
These are the slides I prepared for an innovative Twitter conference held on 29th March 2018. The #PressEDconf18 event organised by Natalie Lafferty (@nlafferty) and Pat Lockley (@pgogy) focused on educational uses of WordPress. Each speaker had 15 tweets, one per minute for 15 minutes. I chose to plan my contribution out as a standard PowerPoint presentations for which I turned each slide into a separate JPG to embed in my tweets.
As Seen On TV: Using broadcast media in university teachingChris Willmott
Slides for a presentation promoting the use of "BoB", an online repository of TV and radio programmes for education. This presentation was given at the Education in a Digital Age event at the University of Lincoln, UK, in November 2017.
RSB CPD PDG IMHO: A mechanism for capturing your “evidence”Chris Willmott
Slides from a presentation describing the merits of the Royal Society of Biology's CPD scheme. I can take no credit for the creation of the scheme, but have found it an extremely helpful way to capture the kind of "evidence" of ongoing professional development which is required for appraisals, awards and applications. This talk was given at BioSummit2017, an annual gathering of teaching-dominant UK Bioscience academics.
Slides from a presentation about her role as a teacher of the deaf, given by Deb Kent as part of the Careers After Biological Science programme in 2016.
Turning teaching initiatives into pedagogic publicationsChris Willmott
Slides from keynote presentation at Discovering Teaching Excellence at Leicester event, July 2017.
The talk outlines some lessons I have learnt about getting started in publication of pedagogic research and other education-related publications.
Slides from a workshop on taking recent news stories and developing them into case studies for teaching about ethical aspects of developments in biology and medicine. We used an audit tool derived from the standard set of questions used on the excellent NHS Choices "Behind the Headlines" site.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
1. How to Use BoB and TRILT
for research
Holly Large, Emma Sewell
& Chris Willmott
University of Leicester
2. • Role of popular media in conveying information,
understanding and shaping worldview
• Print media served by online tools such as (Lexis)Nexis
and Factiva
• TRILT & BoB as “boundaried collection” for
analysis of Broadcast media
Importance of media
3. • Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
Established June 2001
• BoB - “Box of Broadcasts”
Streamed copies of TV & Radio
• BoB now contains >3 million programmes
• Both are searchable, with capacity to export data
• Examine content and context – e.g. visual framing,
music, continuity, interstitials and adverts
TRILT and BoB
4. • Clarity of reasoning for criteria crucial
- scope of project, justification to readers, reviewers, etc
• Dates - hinged around key event(s)?
- defined period of time?
- database infrastructure?
1st August 2016 = Core Channels
• Core TV Channels: BBC One (London), BBC Two, ITV1 (London),
Channel 4, Five, BBC4, More4, BBC3 [when broadcast]
April 2020 + BBC News24, Sky News
March 2022+ Al Jazeera
Setting parameters for project (1)
5. • Format - TV, radio or both?
Core radio (from 1st Aug 2016) = Radio4
Radio4 Extra
NB Radio does not have transcripts
• Genre - Documentary? Drama? etc
Setting parameters for project (2)
7. • PhD project - Representations of cancer genomics
and personalised medicine in UK broadcast media
• Still popular medium despite social media – avg.
2 hrs 34 mins* of broadcast TV consumed daily
• Significant tool for communication of science to
public
• Aim to generate set of programmes for qualitative
analysis - using methodology in guide
*July 2021 - https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-viewing-summary-new
Case study: background
9. • Parameters:
• 5-year date range
• TV and radio
• 228 search terms – used Boolean operators
Case study: finding programmes
10. • BoB & TRILT have important
differences:
• Use different metadata – creates bias
towards/against media type
• Exporting of results – automated vs.
manual, potential for web scraping
• Re-broadcasts can appear in results
of both – abridged versions, ‘Sign
Zone’
• Boolean operators
Case study: finding programmes
11. • Differences in Windows vs
Mac import of CSV files
• Possibility of repeats:
• Similar search terms can
yield same results
• Abridged & Sign Zone
versions
Methodology: collating & refining
12.
13. • Possibility of repeats
• Similar search terms can yield same results
• Abridged & Sign Zone versions
• Excel’s ‘Find & Replace’ tool can be used to identify &
remove repeats using unique Programme ID
• Not flawless – abridged & Sign Zone versions have
separate IDs, must be identified manually, simulcasts
(BBC One & BBC News 24)
Methodology: collating & refining
14. • Search terms yielded:
• 58 results from TRILT
• 2469 from BoB
• After initial repeat exclusion, left with 339 results
• Incl. abridged versions
• Repeats on different channels e.g. simulcasts on BBC One & BBC News 24
• Depends on nature of project as to whether these are removed
Results… so far
15. • Using inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Choosing a method for
programme analysis –
quantitative or qualitative?
• Conduct audience research?
Next steps
16. Thank you for
listening –
any questions?
Personalised medicine in the NHS
‘GenerationGenome’ -
https://tinyurl.com/ydf7z8wq
‘Genome UK: The future of healthcare’ -
https://tinyurl.com/37ujn2nb
Learning on Screen
TRILT – https://tinyurl.com/2uflu22
BoB - https://tinyurl.com/ybzua7fc
Editor's Notes
Boundaried collection = a relatively constrained and consistent collection of material within a defined archive, as opposed to the results of a general web search, or indeed a search of, for example, the IMDb.com database, where a diverse range of sources will be identified, only some of which can actually be accessed
As suggested in the guide, I decided to use both BoB and TRILT for various reasons – more in next slides
Chris mentions parameters earlier on – these are the ones I’ve used as an example. Date range reflects release of seminal paper on the topic, rich science programming in both TV and radio, used Boolean operators as I needed programmes with content on both cancer AND genomics.
A significant difference is that they search for programmes using different information – BoB searches transcripts, which biases it against radio programmes, whereas TRILT uses metadata such as programme title and synopsis, hence why it’s appropriate to use both tools if you are wanting to study both television and radio programming. In the case of my project, science programming is rich in both TV and radio, so wanted to make sure all representations included. If you do want to stick to one type of media, however, there is an option to search for ‘TV only’ etc
Exporting results – guide goes into this in more detail, but essentially is a case of a slightly more automated vs a manual method. In TRILT, I had a relatively small number of results that could be exported into an Excel-ready file. As mentioned in the guide, if you have more results, you may have to adopt a slightly more manual method. With BoB, I manually copied the programme information I required into the spreadsheet – looking into possibility of using web scraping/coding to make this process more automated.
Rebroadcasts can still appear even if you select ‘show only latest broadcast’ – I’ve found that with Radio 4 programmes, you can get full versions and abridged versions broadcast at a later time, both count towards results. Same with BBC Sign Zone.
Boolean operators can be selected in TRILT but have to be typed in BoB
There are differences in windows vs mac import of csv files into excel, but this is discussed in more detail in the guide – however, the process is relatively similar.
After importing results, it’s important to note that the number of results you have is not necessarily a true reflection of the number of unique programmes. Multiple search terms may yield similar results, meaning there can be a lot of duplicates within the collated results.
Make use of Excel’s find and replace tool - knowing that each programme has a unique ID – with some exceptions that I’ll mention shortly – you can use Excel’s find and replace tool to identify and then easily remove repeats.
Again, there are slight differences in what the tool looks like and how it works, but these differences are discussed in more detail in the guide. In essence, the tool helps to highlight repeats of the programme using Programme ID and these repeats can then be removed as you see fit.
As I mentioned, this isn’t foolproof – abridged and BBC sign zone programmes have different IDs, so would need to be identified by searching for the programme title, for example. I’ve also encountered simultaneous broadcasts of the same programme on different channels – usually BBC News programmes on BBC One and BBC News 24 – these have different IDs.
Less referring to my own project here and more giving some suggestions as to what you can do once you have a sample.