ILRT
What We Do - Event Management Software
We have developed a range of software to help with the planning and organisation of seminars and conferences.
Conferences, workshops and seminars are important means of dissemination of research and R&D findings and underpin the creation of new ideas and the sharing of good practice. Planning and organising seminars and conferences - particularly the administrative processes - can be a chore. You need to keep track of calls for papers, publicise the event, process bookings, review submissions in timely and efficient ways.
Conference organisers are also often faced with the challenge of disseminating the outputs from parallel sessions, panels and other discussion both to those unable to attend all sessions and, after the event, anyone unable to attend at all.
We offer a range of software to help
Collaborative Research Events on the Web
The new knowledge generated during discussions, conference panel sessions and workshops is often lost to anyone unable to attend. Increasingly though this information is being captured: presentations are videoed; delegates make blog entries; a lively Twitter channel can accompany a conference. These and other informal outputs can be very valuable. However, they can be hard to track down or easily search as few are integrated fully into official conference sites.
The CREW software was developed through JISC funding and is a system that lets events organisers link informally-generated web-based content with formal content (including multimedia), for a whole event and for individual sessions within that event. It also allows further annotation of these resources by logged-in individuals. All content - including user-contributed annotations - becomes fully searchable within CREW.
SubSift matches submitted conference or journal papers to potential peer reviewers based on their similarity to published works of prospective reviewers in online bibliographic databases, such as Google Scholar. SubSift has been used as a standalone application to support major international conferences.
To quantitatively evaluate SubSift's performance, the bids made by KDD paper reviewers were considered to be the "correct assignments" against which SubSift's automated assignments were compared. On that basis, an average of 58% of the papers recommended by SubSift were subsequently included in the reviewers' own bids. Furthermore, an average of 69% of the papers on which reviewers bid for were ones initially recommended to them by SubSift.
Previous users say:
"As I go through my paper assignments, I am extremely impressed by quality of your initial automated assignment!".
"This is really cool!!! (and fast!) Thank you very much.".
"This is a totally awesome tool!".
Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research
Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research (STARS) is a web-based information visualisation tool that may be used in collaborative work with a range of online, static and/or multimedia content generated during hands-on workshops or throughout a project. It supports a range of multimedia and social annotation functions and provides a workbench so that workshop participants may organise and save particular views of information to be worked with individually or shared with others.
Previous users say:
"The information created in a workshop can be showcased really well using the STARS tool and allows partipants to work with it after the workshop has ended and to show it to others".
"STARS' map view for information visualisation is like mind mapping and offers a really useful alternative to working with linear displays of information".
If you are interested in finding out more about the above projects, or their potential application for your conferences and events then please get in touch.
For more information please contact:
Nikki Rogers, Web Futures Manager,
nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk +44 (0)117 331 4412