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  • Bristol Online Surveys
    BOS is a web based tool that allows people to create, deploy and analyse online surveys. BOS is used widely in approximately 140 UK and overseas Universities and over 100 other organisations. There is no complicated set-up or administration. Users need ...

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  • CURL 19th Century Pamphlets Online
    This project intends to digitise 1 million pages of 19th century pamphlets from seven UK CURL research libraries. It is funded by the JISC within Phase 2 of its major digitisation programme and is intended to run from March 2007 to February 2009. ...
  • Careers in Research Online Survey
    The Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) is run from the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) software. CROS is an annual survey run since 2002 in 50 to 60 UK Universities. The survey aims to get feeback from researchers on working experiences, career ...
  • Content Management System (University)
    We have produced a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) or what might be termed "a website bulding tool" for the University of Bristol. This is based on the CMS that we have successfully deployed for external customers. Our CMS ...
  • Courses Online Booking System
    In 2003 Bristol University commissioned us to create a web application to allow students to book support courses online, and for University departments to manage related course administration. Uptake of the system has been impressive and COBS is ...
  • Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact   New!
    The AHRC has secured £4m of additional capital funding in 2009/10 and 2010/11 to support a funding call for proposals that will lead to (i) enhanced access to leading edge digital technologies and facilities by arts and humanities researchers ...

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  • Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy
    The Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy provides a range of services that support university teachers of economics in the UK.
  • EdQual
    Provide a website to assist dissemination activity for the EdQual project, whose aims are to generate new knowledge to assist governments in low income countries, DfID and the international development community to implement initiatives that will improve ...
  • Embedding Learning Technologies Institutionally
    ELTI is a follow up project to the learning technologies career development scoping study undertaken by a team from ILRT, University of Plymouth and University of Glamorgan. The original study investigated the roles, skills and activities of learning ...
  • Equality Challenge Unit
    We developed the ECU website using our Plone Content Management System. The development process had a strong focus on users' requirements. The stages included:user and client requirements analysisspecification and graphic designtechnical development ...
  • European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education
    The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education is an independent and self-governing organisation, established by European Union member countries to act as their platform for collaboration in the field of special needs education.In the ...
  • Evidence Based Medicine online tutorials
    Development of a web-based multi-media tool that will help teach senior doctors the necessary skills to practice and teach EBM. Working with staff from the University's School of Social Medicine the product will be designed to deliver EBM along the ...
  • ExaMiner: Mining and mapping the University's research landscape
    The ExaMiner project is a collaboration between the ILRT and the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Bristol. The work is part of the University's Exabyte Informatics research theme which aims to advance computing as the language of ...
  • Exeter StudentHelp
    Exeter StudentHelp is an online resource that provides links and answers to frequently asked questions on all aspects of University and community life - study, personal and practical problems and much more. Exeter StudentHelp is based on the University ...
  • e-Portfolio pilot
    We are using the Clinical Experience Recorder tool created as part of the EELS project as pilot e-portfolio tool. This is in use by Veterinary students at Bristol and is due to be used by Medics in the Autumn of 2008.
  • Fresh Expressions
    ID has been commissioned to design & develop the Fresh Expressions website. Fresh Expressions is a initiative between The Church of England and The Methodist Church, and aims to help Christians of any denomination think about ways of starting ...
  • Fresh Expressions - CofE
    Fresh Expression Ltd commissioned the ILRT to develop an an innovative forum in which experience and good practice in worship can be shared and in which learning networks can form and evolve.

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  • Greening Events
    The JISC-funded Greening Events project proposes to conduct an exploratory investigation into how to minimise the sustainability impacts of academic events (such as conferences and seminars, training, administrative and project related events) while ...

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  • IDBlog: coffee with ILRT
  • INASP - Author Aid
    Author Aid is a project, run by the international charity INASP, to "help researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their work. It also serves as a wider global forum to discuss and disseminate research." We have ...
  • Intute: Social Sciences
    Intute: Social Sciences is the subject group of Intute that provides the very best Web resources for education and research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism. It has been created by bringing together two of ...
  • JISC Digital Media
    JISC Digital Media is an advisory service that supports the academic community on the digital creation, management and use of still images, moving images and sound resources.  As a JISC-funded service, JISC Digital Media supports FE and HE ...
  • JISC IE Metadata Schema Registry
    A JISC funded project under the Shared Services Programme jointly with UKOLN, University of Bath advised by the CETIS and the Becta. IEMSR is developing a metadata schema registry and schema creation tool as a pilot shared service within the JISC ...
  • JISC Managing Research Data   New!
    The specific aim of funding a raft of projects in this area is to create a body of discipline-focussed postgraduate training units which can be reused by other institutions on order to stimulate curriculum change and create a greater awareness of the ...

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  • Metalib Shibboleth integration
    A Shibboleth environment for the University of Bristol has been implemented as a pliot. Integration with the Ex Libris Group's Library Portal product "Metalib" means a user who successfully attempts to access Metalib or use SFX services will ...
  • MixedMediaGrid
    The MiMeG (MixedMediaGrid) project is part of the ESRC's eSocialScience programme and is based at the University of Bristol and King's College London. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science, social studies and education with ...
  • MyMobileBristol   New!
    MyMobileBristol is an exciting, new, twelve-month project being led by the Web Futures group at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol. The project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) ...
  • National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
    Redesigned and moved the NCCPE website to a Drupal-backed content management system. All design and implementation work was done by the Internet Development group, with advice on podcasting and resource provision provided by Intute staff working at the ...
  • National Composites Centre   New!
    The National Composites Centre (NCC) will bring together dynamic companies and enterprising academics to develop new technologies for the design and rapid manufacture of high-quality composite products.The ILRT created and hosts the NCC website. The ...

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  • Office for Fair Access
    Redesigned and moved the Office for Fair Access website to a WordPress weblog technology, based website. Providing automatic categorisation, RSS feeds, image galleries and email lists. Extensive user analysis was performed to reorganise and prioritise ...
  • PHP Security review consultancy
    We were commissioned by another academic institution to undertake a security audit of PHP programs and application architecture.
  • Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)
    PRES is a collaborative national survey sponsored by the Higher Education Academy.Over 60 Universities issue a PRES survey simultaneously through the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service. Five 'benchmarking clubs' have been formed within BOS to ...
  • Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)   New!
    The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is run on behalf of the Higher Education Academy. PTES is delivered via our Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service. Over 50 UK universities participate. Universities are able to run a common survey and then ...

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  • Re-using Medical Images   New!
    The overall aim of the Re-using Medical Images project is to develop the ethical, legal and moral use of clinical recordings in non-clinical environments through clear, concise easy to use and effective policies and practices across health and ...
  • Research Revealed
    ResearchRevealed will demonstrate ways in which researchers, research managers and the public can explore (and enhance) up-to-date, accurate integrated views of research information. It uses existing institutional, UK and potentially global research ...
  • Research Visualisations Web site
    The Research Visualisations site will promote the public understanding of leading scientific research undertaken at the University of Bristol in the departments of Computer Science and Engineering Mathematics. The ILRT provides initial technical ...
  • Russell Universities Group IT Directors (RUGIT) site
    ILRT created a communication and coordination Web site backed by a Plone content management system

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  • SCONUL Web site: Society of College, National and University Libraries
    ILRT hosts and develops the SCONUL website. This includes a CMS plus Membership database and intranet, SCONUL library statistics software and the Access scheme for students and librarians.
  • Semantic Web And Repurposing Applications
    The SWARA (Semantic Web And Repurposing Applications) project, is funded by Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol (http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/). It aims to investigate how Semantic Web and social software technologies can support and enrich the use of Web and ...
  • Student Help
    Student Help aims to provide links and answers to frequently asked questions on all aspects of University life - study, personal and practical problems and much more.Although the Student Help application is integrated within the University of ...
  • Subject Portals Project
    The Subject Portals Project aims to provide users with the ability to search seamlessly from the Intute subject groups across a wider range of resources. The project is based on shared software development across Intute. Technical co-ordination is based ...
  • Sustrans Cycling Cities and Towns
    ID has been commissioned by Sustrans, the UK's leading sustainable transport charity, to develop a data capturing tool that can be used by councils in England to gather information on the effectiveness of investment in cycling. Entries are ...

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  • Usability Consultancy
    We employ user-centred design methods to find out what users require from the site and how it should be structured. We then develop the design and functionality of the website around their needs. Working in partnership with Pure Usability we test ...
  • Video Conference Service
    ILRT no longer run a videoconference service.  Please see below for alternative services.Internal: A new videoconference service has been set up by Estates IT and is based in Senate House. Please email video-conferencing@bristol.ac.uk for more ...
  • Virtual Training Suite
    The Virtual Training Suite is a national eLearning service for Higher and Further Education in the UK, offering FREE "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web, for students, lecturers and researchers who want to learn what the Internet ...
  • Visualising China
    Funded by the JISC (within the eContent Programme) Visualising China builds on recent digitisation work undertaken by the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol culminating in the presence of a large, growing collection of ...

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  • Worldwide Universities Network
    We developed a new site for the World Universities Network using the Drupal Content Management System. The process involved:requirements analysisprototyping and graphic designtechnical development and implementationcontent developmenttrainingongoing ...