RSETraining2019 Test

contents/data/person.yaml

@@ -46,10 +46,35 @@
   email: marjorie.burghart@gmail.com
   website: http://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en
 
+- name: Samantha Callaghan
+  slug: samantha-callaghan
+  avatar: ../images/authors/samantha-callaghan.jpg
+  website: https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/who-we-are/samantha-callaghan/
+  description:
+    Samantha Callaghan is a Research Software Engineering Project Manager as
+    well as the Georgian Papers Programme Metadata Analyst. As an RSE Project
+    Manager, Samantha guides projects through KDL’s Software Development Life
+    Cycle. She also undertakes analysis, decommissioning documentation and
+    outreach work, particularly in relation to Indigenous DH and decolonising
+    practice in the GLAM sector.
+
 - name: Angeliki Chrysanthi
   slug: angeliki-chrysanthi
   avatar: ../images/authors/angeliki-chrysanthi.jpg
 
+- name: Arianna Ciula
+  slug: arianna-ciula
+  avatar: ../images/authors/arianna-ciula.jpg
+  description:
+    Dr Arianna Ciula is Senior Software Analyst and Deputy Director of King's
+    Digital Lab. Dr Ciula has broad experience in digital humanities research
+    and teaching, research management, and digital research infrastructures. She
+    holds a PhD in Manuscript and Book Studies (digital palaeography, University
+    of Siena), an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King’s College
+    London) and a BA Hons in Communication sciences (computational linguistics,
+    University of Siena).
+  website: https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/who-we-are/dr-arianna-ciula/
+
 - name: Claire Clivaz
   slug: claire-clivaz
   avatar: ../images/authors/claire-clivaz.jpg
@@ -107,6 +132,17 @@
   slug: marianne-huang
   avatar: ../images/authors/marianne-huang.jpg
 
+- name: Neil Jakeman
+  slug: neil-jakeman
+  avatar: ../images/authors/neil-jakeman.jpg
+  website: https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/who-we-are/neil-jakeman/
+  description:
+    Neil Jakeman is Senior Software Analyst at King's Digital Lab. Neil has a
+    background in environmental analysis, spatial statistics and experience in
+    commercial development. At KDL, Neil has led the development of a number of
+    important projects. His particular teresearch interests lie in the fields of
+    geospatial humanities and virtual reality.
+
 - name: Klaus Illmayer
   slug: klaus-illmayer
   avatar: ../images/authors/klaus-illmayer.jpg
@@ -252,6 +288,19 @@
 - name: Rebecca Seirig
   slug: rebecca-seirig
 
+- name: James Smithies
+  slug: james-smithies
+  avatar: ../images/authors/james-smithies.jpg
+  website: https://jamessmithies.org/
+  description:
+    Dr James Smithies is Director of King’s Digital Lab. He was previously
+    Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Associate Director of the UC
+    CEISMIC Digital Archive at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has
+    worked in the government and commercial IT sectors as a technical writer and
+    editor, business analyst, and project manager. His monograph _The Digital
+    Humanities and the Digital Modern_ was published by Palgrave Macmillan in
+    2017.
+
 - name: Juliane Stiller
   slug: juliane-stiller
   avatar: ../images/authors/juliane-stiller.jpg

contents/data/tag.yaml

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     their research outputs, which might include data, publications and training
     activities, are available and open to all without restriction
 
+- name: Project management
+  slug: project-management
+
 - name: Research infrastructures
   slug: research-infrastructures
   description:
@@ -139,6 +142,10 @@
     sciences and geography-based practices to study physical, cognitive,
     perceptual and relational aspects of the human spatial experience
 
+- name: Software development
+  slug: software-development
+  description:
+
 - name: Speech technology
   slug: speech-technology
   description:

contents/events/RSETraining2019/about.mdx

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+# About
+
+## [Partners](https://datacite.hypotheses.org/partners)
+
+'MaDiH: Research Software Engineering (RSE) Training workshop inaugurated Phase
+1 of
+[Mapping the Digital Heritage in Jordan project](https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS011722%2F1)
+(MaDiH)'. This event was held with the guidance of:
+
+- [Dr Andrea Zerbini](https://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/team/dr-andrea-zerbini/)
+
+## Participants
+
+- **Dr Fadi Bala'awi**, MaDiH Project PI, Dean of Queen Rania Faculty of Tourism
+  and Heritage, Hashemite University, Jordan
+- **Arianna Ciula**, Senior Research Software Analyst and Deputy Director,
+  King's Digital Lab, King's College London, UK
+- **Dr Stuart Dunn**, Head of Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
+  London, UK
+- **Dr Alessandra Esposito**, MaDiH Project Research Associate, King's Digital
+  Lab, King's College London, UK
+- **Dr Adrian Evans**, MaDiH Consultant, Research Fellow, School of
+  Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford, UK
+- **Dr Pascal Flohr**, Researcher on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle
+  East and North Africa (EAMENA) project, Oxford University, UK
+- **Sahar Idwan**, Dean of Information Technology, Hashemite University, Jordan
+- **Neil Jakeman**, Senior Research Software Analyst, King's Digital Lab, King's
+  College London, UK
+- **Samia Khouri**, Department of Antiquities, Director of Museums, Jordan
+- **Issa Mahasneh**, Executive Director of the Jordanian Open Source
+  Association, Jordan
+- **Shatha Mubaideen**, MaDiH Project Manager, University of Jordan, Jordan
+- **Dominic Oldman**, Head of ResearchSpace, The British Museum, UK
+- **Dr Carol Palmer**, Director of the Council for British Research in the
+  Levant (CBRL), UK
+- **Professor Shaher Rababeh**, MaDiH Project Co-I, Vice President, Hashemite
+  University, Jordan
+- **Raya Sharbain**, Jordan Open Source Association, Jordan
+- **Dr James Smithies**, MaDiH Project PI, Director, King's Digital Lab, King's
+  College London, UK
+- **Tom Sparrow**, Research Fellow, School of Archaeological and Forensic
+  Sciences, University of Bradford, UK
+- **Diana Tanase**, Senior Curator of ResearchSpace, The British Museum, UK
+- **Dr Will Wootton**, Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, King's College
+  London
+
+## Coordination
+
+**Arianna Ciula**, King's Digital Lab, King's College London, UK
+
+## Companion blog
+
+[https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/](https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/madih-research-software-engineering-rse-training-london/)
+
+## Bibliography
+
+The complete list of websites and publications mentioned in the sessions' slides
+can be found in
+[KDL RSE Training 2019 Zotero Bibliography](https://www.zotero.org/groups/2345477/kdl_rse_training/library).
+
+## Contact
+
+Arianna Ciula, King's Digital Lab: arianna.ciula[AT]kcl[DOT]ac[DOT]uk

contents/events/RSETraining2019/index.mdx

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+---
+title: 'MaDiH: Research Software Engineering Training'
+slug: rse2019
+type: event
+date: 2020-04-09
+categories:
+  - events
+abstract:
+  Hosted by King’s Digital Lab (KDL) at King’s College London, the workshop
+  introduced participants to best practices in project management, the Agile
+  Dynamic System Development Methods (DSDM) as well as various theoretical and
+  practical approaches to digital cultural heritage.
+authors:
+  - arianna-ciula
+  - james-smithies
+logo: images/madih-logo.png
+featuredImage: images/madih_background_darkened.jpg
+tags:
+  - data-modeling
+  - software-development
+  - data-management
+  - project-management
+license: CCBY 4.0
+partners:
+  - dariah-eu
+social:
+  - name: website
+    url: https://www.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/
+  - name: kdl-info@kcl.ac.uk
+    url:
+  - name: flickr
+    url: #add url for pictures
+  - name: twitter
+    url: https://twitter.com/kingsdigitallab
+synthesis: docs/doc-name.pdf
+#if you created a summary or report on the activities at the event, you can include it here as a .pdf.
+---
+
+# 'MaDiH: Research Software Engineering Training'
+
+## An Open Access synthesis of the RSE Training workshop for MaDiH project, King's Digital Lab, London 2-5 July 2019
+
+The purpose of the workshop was to introduce best practices in Research Software
+Engineering and the Software Engineering Lifecycle (SDLC) adopted at King's
+Digital Lab. The target audience of the workshop was members of the team of the
+AHRC-funded "MaDiH: Mapping the Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan".

contents/events/RSETraining2019/session01.mdx

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+---
+number: 1
+title: "King's Digital Lab: Overview and Context"
+speakers:
+  - james-smithies
+---
+
+## Welcoming remarks
+
+### Professor Graeme Earl
+
+The participants were welcomed by the Vice-Dean for External Relations at
+[King's College London](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/),
+[Professor Graeme Earl](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-graeme-earl) from
+the [Department of Digital Humanities](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh)
+
+## Abstract
+
+_King's Digital Lab: Overview and Context_
+
+The session gave an overview of the institutional context of the workshop,
+mentioning over 30 years of history of Humanities Computing and Digital
+Humanities (DH) at King’s College London and presented King’s Digital Lab (KDL),
+founded in 2015; KDL’s place and role within the university, its team,
+infrastructure, activities, projects, funding strategy, partners and
+collaborators were briefly discussed. The session dwelled on emerging as well as
+core research themes and directions for KDL, such as immersive experiences,
+software development, archiving and sustainability, machine learning and big
+data analysis, design, visualisation and indigenous DH. The last part of the
+session focused on the contexts in which KDL operates that necessitate a balance
+between a drive for innovation and focus on continuity and value, between
+experimentation and institutional responsibility. In order to address the scale
+and complexity of contemporary DH projects and infrastructures, KDL has adopted
+and adapted industry standards, broadly accepted research data management
+workflows and clearly defined processes for documentation and software
+development lifecycle (SDLC).
+
+<Download download="docs/1.1-Intro_KDL.pdf" />
+<Speakers>
+
+<Speaker speaker="james-smithies">
+
+</Speaker>
+
+</Speakers>

contents/events/RSETraining2019/session02.mdx

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+---
+number: 2
+title: 'KDL Practices: Team, Systems, Data and Models (Part One)'
+speakers:
+  - arianna-ciula
+---
+
+## Abstract
+
+The first part of the session began with the description of team roles at KDL,
+aligned with a holistic vision of Research Software Engineering (RSE) career
+paths plotted in a continuum from research active to research support profiles,
+mappable to best practices in industry standards such as development and
+management frameworks (in particular the Agile Dynamic Systems Development
+Method: DSDM) and competence skills (e.g. SFIA). These roles and promotion
+processes were compared and contrasted with traditional roles and promotion
+processes in academia on the one hand, and industry on the other. Focusing on
+the example of the analyst role, the range of tasks and responsibilities
+inherent to the role was demonstrated.
+
+In what followed, infrastructures and frameworks used at KDL, the lifecycle of a
+typical project and its SDLC were outlined, beginning with initial contact by
+the partner (i.e. an academic, a research institution or a business) through to
+funding application, release and post-project hosting and maintenance. Sources
+of funding and classification of projects according to size were also discussed.
+
+KDL members of staff work on several projects in different stages of development
+at the same time, and in order to manage the workflow most effectively, the team
+has implemented flexible “timebox planning”, whereby tasks are planned for each
+“timebox” (two-week period) and then are revised according to priority and
+resources. In order to manage and document the processes effectively, KDL has
+developed a set of templates for project governance documentation corresponding
+to each stage of the project SDLC (such as “Terms of Reference”, “Feasibility”,
+“Product Quote”, “Project Review Record” and “Service Level Agreement (SLA))”.
+Simplified templates with contextual information on use can be consulted by
+accessing KDL’s repository on GitHub.
+
+<Download download="docs/1.2-Practices_1.pdf" />
+<Speakers>
+
+<Speaker speaker="arianna-ciula">
+
+</Speaker>
+
+</Speakers>

contents/events/RSETraining2019/session03.mdx

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+---
+number: 3
+title: 'KDL Practices: Team, Systems, Data and Models (Part Two)'
+speakers:
+  - arianna-ciula
+---
+
+## Abstract
+
+The second part of the session introduced the concept of “Double Diamond” – a
+visual map of the design process (developed and described by the
+[Design Council](https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/what-framework-innovation-design-councils-evolved-double-diamond)).
+The Double Diamond model posits the necessity, for any creative process, to
+spend time defining the problem before setting out to solve it. Therefore, the
+process is divided into four distinct phases – Discover (a problem), Define (the
+problem), Develop (a solution) and Deliver (the solution).
+
+These four phases can be mapped onto two of the three stages of KDL’s workflow
+which comprises
+
+1. Pre-project (Discover/Define)
+2. Project development from start to launch (Define, Design and Develop)
+3. Post project (maintenance, archiving and decommission)
+
+The second phase of project evolutionary development is an iterative cycle that
+evolves as development progresses.
+
+The rest of the session was dedicated to detailed analysis of workflows by RSE
+role (Project Manager; Analyst; Software Engineer; UI/UX Designer; Systems
+Manager) with the tasks mapped onto the three stages of KDL project workflow,
+from Pre-project through Project development to Post-project.
+
+<Download download="docs/1.3-Practices_2.pdf" />
+<Speakers>
+
+<Speaker speaker="arianna-ciula">
+
+</Speaker>
+</Speakers>

contents/events/RSETraining2019/session04.mdx

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+---
+number: 4
+title: Project Requirements
+speakers:
+  - arianna-ciula
+---
+
+## Abstract
+
+At the beginning of the session, the elements to be taken into consideration
+while planning any DH project were named and discussed: a **core** idea
+typically evolves into a set of **research** questions, then **methods** to
+address them are identified along with **management** approaches, required
+**budget** to support the project and any **sustainability** issues that need to
+be planned for in advance.
+
+When it comes to development, in contrast to traditional project management
+approaches that fix the features to be implemented in the course of the project,
+Agile project management approaches, adopted by KDL, treat time and cost as
+fixed variables. Instead of committing to implementing a set of features, the
+team commits to delivering value within defined constraints of cost and time,
+whereas features may change as the project progresses.
+
+At pre-project stage, feasibility analysis needs to be conducted before a
+project is considered viable and the rest of the life-cycle initiated. In order
+to prioritise requirements, KDL uses a prioritisation technique known as the
+MoSCoW principles, whereby, following consultation with the partners, each
+required feature is assigned a status: M for “must”, S for “should”, C for
+“could” and W for “will not have this time”. W requirements, although recorded
+by the analyst, are considered to be outside the scope of the project, and C
+requirements are low priority. In the iterative process of project development,
+this prioritisation technique is used throughout the project at review meetings.
+
+Since this training workshop was part of a specific project ("MaDiH: Mapping
+Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan") with a defined core idea and a set of high
+level requirements, the rest of the session focused on the project deliverables.
+Producing a Proof of Concept (PoC) is one of the objectives of the project; the
+notion of prototype, proving that a scaled-up version of the project can be
+executed, was therefore discussed and critiqued as RSE best practice to
+encourage review of and reflection on the project’s feasibility and gap
+analysis.
+
+The session further provided some examples taken from the MaDiH pre-project
+stage and demonstrated KDL’s template for requirement analysis.
+
+In addition, the applications of the “Comprehensive Archive Network” (CKAN)
+system, widely used across the public sector, as a proposed solution for
+capturing metadata in MaDiH was discussed as an example of how an RSE solution
+evolves through the KDL software development lifecycle.
+
+<Download download="docs/2.1-Requirements.pdf" />
+
+<Speakers>
+
+<Speaker speaker="arianna-ciula"></Speaker>
+
+</Speakers>