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Objective
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Corporate Plan Section
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Date
(Unless otherwise stated this is an ongoing activity.)
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Estimated Cost
(Unless otherwise stated this will be absorbed within OUCS’s current budget, or costs cannot be fully assessed yet.)
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General
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| Develop, bring in, and support systems to facilitate the administrative processes behind teaching and research |
VId |
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| Develop and support communication tools that facilitate speedy dissemination of information to people on demand — notably single sign-on, open standards, and a portal |
VI |
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| Act in a customer-driven way developing its services to the needs of the academics and students within the University |
VIc |
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| Assist in the development of the Enhanced Computing Environment by offering appropriate support to the new ICT Team |
X |
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| Monitor and assist in the development of the University’s ICT Strategy |
X |
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Research
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I, VId, Ib, Id, and Ig |
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| Develop infrastructure and tools for the next generation of collaborative research environments (VREs) |
“ |
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| Develop and launch an online Research Discovery Service |
“ |
MT06 |
£15k pa |
| Investigate and report on new authorisation services |
“ |
Sept 06 |
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| Monitor and advise on open source developments |
“ |
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| Make available resources and services via the UK National Grid Service |
“ |
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| Proactively support the establishment of an institutional research repository |
“ |
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| Promote OUCS (and other) services for assisting in the development of funding proposals for e-research |
“ |
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| Co-ordinate, on behalf of OUCS, a range of awareness-raising and training activities relating to services and technologies to support e-research |
“ |
Oct 06 |
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| Provide an opportunity to buy in IT services via our NSMS unit |
“ |
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Teaching and Learning
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II, IIb, IIc |
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| Launch the Tutorial Reporting System (OxCort) |
“ |
MT07 |
£15k pa |
| Develop and promote the use of the VLE WebLearn; secure its funding |
“ |
2007 |
£150k pa |
| Research and implement technology that provides teachers and learners with assessment technologies |
“ |
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| Research and implement technology that allows learners to share and express their understanding, e.g. blogs/wikis etc |
“ |
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| Explore the potential of reusable learning objects |
“ |
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| Develop a Training Needs Analysis tool to point people at appropriate courses |
“ |
2007 |
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Academic and Student Services
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I, II, VIc, VId |
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| Create a shared information environment for use of IT Support Staff |
“ |
March 06 |
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| Establish and promote a service for creating, publishing and aggregating RSS news items |
“ |
Feb 06 |
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| Develop a coherent Information Strategy across the department |
“ |
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| Promote TEI XML markup as a preferred archival format for digital texts in the university |
“ |
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| Introduce LINUX desktop systems into the help centre |
“ |
Jan 07 |
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| Expand (charged) PC hardware repair and maintenance service |
“ |
Aug 06 |
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| Upgrade the University’s backbone network |
“ |
2009 |
£1m |
| Review cabling, and update or replace existing cables and ducts |
“ |
2007 |
£0.6m |
| Promote guidelines for the Oxford Wireless service (OWL) |
“ |
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| Seek University funding to promote the use of mobile access, via handheld devices and wireless technology |
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2006 |
£1.5m, + 150k pa |
| Investigate and support the introduction of Internet Protocol Version 6 |
“ |
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| Plan and migrate University telecom systems to Voice over IP (VoIP) |
“ |
2009 |
£2-3m |
| Major upgrade to the Hierarchical File Server (HFS) |
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06/07 |
£450k |
| Introduce second tape library for HFS |
“ |
2007 |
£500k |
| Replace automated tape library for HFS |
“ |
2009 |
£300k |
| Invest in a filestore and repository system |
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06/07 |
£800k, + 100k pa |
| Provide IT Consultancy and Managed Services on a chargeable basis via NSMS |
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Space
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VIII |
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| Identify new opportunities to solve the accommodation problem and relieve pressure on the machine room |
“ |
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| Fund the series of major capital investment projects outlined in Appendix A |
“ |
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Finance
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IX |
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| Align OUCS’s spending plans and cycles with the recommendations to emerge from Work Tasks H and I of the ICT Strategy which are focusing on large-scale IT investments |
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| Investigate which services might be costed into research grants as 'directly incurred' rather than remaining within 'indirect' under FEC |
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| Provide advice on writing bids via our RTS unit, and also on the implications of FEC and TRAC and the opportunity to buy-in IT support and development via our NSMS unit |
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