1. equipment.data
“The national equipment portal
project”
Adrian Cox
Project Manager
May 2014
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2. What is equipment.data?
An RCUK (EPSRC) funded project to establish a service providing a national
research equipment portal for HE
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A project team based at the University of Southampton:
Adrian Cox – Project Manager
Louise Payne – Project marketing & communications officer
Andrew Milsted – Web developer
Who are we?

3. • Established network of interested parties in equipment sharing
related activity (SES (S5 then), N8, GW4, M5)
• Standardised database vocabulary – the “UNIQUIP data
publishing specification”
• Established common agreement to linked open data approach
• Early influencing of system design (e.g. Pure, Agresso, Kit
Catalogue and bespoke systems)
• Proved the concept for a national equipment portal
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Where did it start?

4. What are our objectives:
• Deliver a sustainable solution enabling the searching of
research equipment and facilities across HE
• Provide support for institutions wishing to engage
• Contribute to wider related developments (e.g. Gateway
to Research and equipment sharing discussion)
• Vendor engagement – influencing system design and
interoperability
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5. What has been achieved to date?
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6. Branded website with search function
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7. Status Report – Contributors and data statistics
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8. Contributors to date…
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9. UNIQUIP - http://equipment.data.ac.uk/uniquip
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10. Organisation Profile Document (OPD) –
Machine readable version
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11. OPD – Human readable version
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12. Vendor engagement…..
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14. Practice what we preach!
University of Southampton Database
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15. Agresso Fixed Asset Module development
New “Equipment” and “Facilities” screens
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16. University of Southampton Database
Facility example
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17. http://equipment.data.ac.uk
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18. Objectives this year….
• Continued community engagement
 Landscape study follow-up and increasing compliance
• Encouraging introduction into procedures and guidance
• Establishing the standards
 Embedding open data best practice, linking wider datasets e.g.
publications for Gateway to Research
Achieving recognised standards e.g. W3C and CASRAI
• Vendor engagement – wider developments – Use in institutional
repositories
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19. …….and another
poster!
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