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 (CREW)
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.
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.
If you are interested in finding out more about the CREW project, or its potential application for your conferences and events, please contact Web Futures Coordinator Nikki Rogers (nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk). Also see the CREW website at http://www.crew-vre.net/ and the demo at http://crew.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/Crew/
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:
"STARS' map view for information visualisation is like mind mapping and offers a really useful alternative to working with linear displays of information".
"STARS would make an excellent tool to support projects over their lifetime, allowing for annotation through the entire journey of a project as opposed to retrospective tagging".
"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".
If you are interested in finding out more about the STARS project, please contact Web Futures Coordinator Nikki Rogers (nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk) and see the STARS website at http://stars.blogs.ilrt.org/
SubSift
SubSift is an innovative "submission sifting" application developed by the Intelligent Systems group at the University of Bristol to support academic peer review. 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 but the software may be used as part of bespoke web applications or in mash-ups with tools like Yahoo Pipes.
If you are interested in finding out more about SubSift, or its potential application for your conferences and events, please contact Web Futures Coordinator Nikki Rogers (nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk) and see the SubSift website at http://subsift.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/