Annual Report 2008-09

Table of contents

• 1. A Letter from the Director of IT
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Introduction to Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
• 4. Executive Summary
• 5. Strategic Issues and Development
• 6. Review 2008-09
  • 6.1. University Backbone Network
    • 6.1.1. External Access
    • 6.1.2. Wireless Networking
    • 6.1.3. Email Relay
  • 6.2. Herald Mail System
    • 6.2.1. Overview
    • 6.2.2. Usage
    • 6.2.3. Mail delivery
  • 6.3. Access Management Services
    • 6.3.1. Webauth
    • 6.3.2. Oak LDAP
    • 6.3.3. Shibboleth
  • 6.4. Hierarchical File Server
  • 6.5. IT Security
  • 6.6. Help Centre
    • 6.6.1. Help Desk
    • 6.6.2. Computing Services Online Shop
    • 6.6.3. Hardware Repairs and Upgrading
  • 6.7. Registration Services
    • 6.7.1. Single Sign-On Account Statistics
    • 6.7.2. Mail address management
      • 6.7.2.1. Mass mailing
      • 6.7.2.2. EZMLM mailing lists
    • 6.7.3. Major changes in User-Facing Services
      • 6.7.3.1. Changes to student account management
      • 6.7.3.2. Migration from Herald to Nexus
      • 6.7.3.3. Nexus Service
    • 6.7.4. Other projects
  • 6.8. Information Services
  • 6.9. Research Technologies Service
  • 6.10. WebLearn (Virtual Learning Environment) Service
  • 6.11. The IT Learning Programme (ITLP) 2007-08
    • 6.11.1. Team Wins Another Award
    • 6.11.2. Developments in the Year 2008-9
    • 6.11.3. Closed courses
    • 6.11.4. Skills Toolkit for Research Students
    • 6.11.5. Breakfast at OUCS
    • 6.11.6. Ostrakon Evaluation System
    • 6.11.7. Thames Suite
  • 6.12. Learning Technology Group Services
  • 6.13. Software Licensing
  • 6.14. Computer Hardware Breakdown Service
  • 6.15. Printing Services
  • 6.16. OUCS Data Centre and Operations
  • 6.17. NSMS
  • 6.18. IT Support Staff Services (ITS3)
  • 6.19. ICT Support Team (ICTST)
  • 6.20. Marketing
  • 6.21. Web Design Consultancy
  • 6.22. Human Resources and Administration
  • 6.23. Report on open source involvement at OUCS
• 7. Project Reports
  • 7.1. British National Corpus (BNC)
  • 7.2. Core User Directory Project (CUD)
  • 7.3. Embedding institutional data curation services in research (EIDCSR)
  • 7.4. e-Infrastructure use cases and service usage models (eIUS)
  • 7.5. ENRICH
  • 7.6. Erewhon
  • 7.7. University Groupware Project
    • 7.7.1. Groupware Vision
    • 7.7.2. Groupware Project
  • 7.8. Intute: Arts and Humanities
  • 7.9. Information Security Best Practice (ISBP)
  • 7.10. Low Carbon ICT Project
  • 7.11. Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE)
  • 7.12. OSS Watch
  • 7.13. Oxford Text Archive
  • 7.14. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Project
  • 7.15. OpenSpires project
  • 7.16. Steeple Project
  • 7.17. Modelling4All
  • 7.18. First World War Poetry Digital Archive
  • 7.19. System Aided Compilation and Open Distribution of European Youth Language (SACODEYL)
  • 7.20. Scoping digital repository services for research data management
  • 7.21. Thema: Exploring the Experiences of Master’s Students in a Digital Age
  • 7.22. Text Encoding Initiative
  • 7.23. VLE Service Development
  • 7.24. UCISA
  • 7.25. XAIRA