Sometimes Students Make the Best Teachers: Developing and Enhancing Graduate Skills

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The Wiltshire Wills Feasibility Study

The Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office has nearly ninety thousand wills in its care. These records are neither adequately catalogued nor secured against loss by facsimile microfilm copies. With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund the Record Office has begun to produce suitable finding aids for the material. Beginning with this feasibility study the Record Office is developing a strategy to ensure the that facsimiles to protect the collection against risk of loss or damage and to improve public access are created.<p></p> This feasibility study explores the different methodologies that can be used to assist the preservation and conservation of the collection and improve public access to it. The study aims to produce a strategy that will enable the Record Office to create digital facsimiles of the Wills in its care for access purposes and to also create preservation quality microfilms. The strategy aims to seek the most cost effective and time efficient approach to the problem and identifies ways to optimise the processes by drawing on the experience of other similar projects. This report provides a set of guidelines and recommendations to ensure the best use of the resources available for to provide the most robust preservation strategy and to ensure that future access to the Wills as an information resource can be flexible, both local and remote, and sustainable

Ahead of the CurV: digital curator vocational education

In this paper, we describe the work of the EC-funded DigCurV project. We examine the context of the project, the methods and findings of its extensive survey work, and the development of proposed frameworks for evaluating and delivering a digital curation curriculum

Sometimes Students Make the Best Teachers: Developing and Enhancing Graduate Skills

This paper demonstrates the good practice in developing and enhancing graduate skills and experience of Senior Honours Students in Digital Media and Information Studies through engaging these students as demonstrators for the computer based lab sessions as part of the delivery of the DMIS level 1 courses. This paper will be delivered by both staff on the programme and students taking part in the scheme this year as well as with input from previous year’s cohorts to demonstrate the effectiveness of the activity on employability. This input will be as videos embedded in the paper to demonstrate the international impact from students who were demonstrators last year and now work in Sweden. We use results from a study taking place over the year both from students and demonstrators to evidence the positive effect for both elements , e.g “how helpful XX has been in my labs over the last few weeks. She's guided me in some detail through what happens in Year 2 and at Honours level which has probably convinced me to keep going with DMIS.” “It's been extremely useful to get some specifics from someone who's already been through it, and I didn't even have to ask - it was just born out of a chat. “ Feedback from 2015-16 DMIS 1B student. This paper will reflect on the success of embedding the graduate attributes into this scheme through a number of key areas, not least Subject Specialist, Confident, Effective Communicators and Resourceful and Responsible. We will demonstrate through our study that these attributes are achieved not only through the classroom activities but through application of training and accreditation, from UofG GTA training, Subject meetings, and support to apply for Associate Fellow of the HEA. This is aligned to CILIP professional accreditation for the single honours DMIS degree, ensuring our demonstrators graduate with a firm set of graduate attributes and employability skills

The DigCurV curriculum framework for digital curation in the cultural heritage sector

The Digital Curator Vocational Education (‘DigCurV’) project was funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci lifelong learning programme . It aimed to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation. DigCurV brought together a network of partners to address the availability of vocational training for digital curators in the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors, with a particular focus on the training needed to develop new skills that are essential for the long-term management of digital collections. In 2013, the DigCurV collaborative network completed development of this Curriculum Framework for digital curation skills in the European cultural heritage sector. Drawing on a variety of established skills and competence models in the digital curation and cultural heritage sectors, DigCurV synthesised such expertise with input from those in the digital curation professions to develop a new Curriculum Framework. As a result, the Framework can help develop digital curation training offerings, provide a benchmark against which to map and compare existing offerings, and motivate training providers to continue to develop and refresh training. Our paper will describe the salient points of this work, including how the project team conducted the research necessary to develop the Framework, the structure of the Framework, the processes used to validate the Framework, and three ‘lenses’ onto the Framework. Our paper will also provide suggestions as to how the Framework might be used, including a description of potential audiences and purposes. As such, this paper draws on various DigCurV project deliverables. The contributions of members of the network to these deliverables is gratefully acknowledged

D5.3 National Meetings Reports 2012

In 2012, DigCurV Partners organised or attended National Meetings for the express purpose of promoting the activities of DigCurV and the Curriculum Framework development. At each meeting, the rationale behind the lenses was discussed, and the uses of lenses themselves were explained. Many partners used the meetings as a means to promote DigCurV. UGOE suggest that their meeting ‘…served as a platform for the exchange of experiences...’ and highlighted how useful the meeting was for networking. Other partners found other useful feedback from the meetings, particularly with regards to promoting future events, discussing the Curriculum Framework in its current form, and using the CURATE! game as a means of raising topics for discussion. This report looks at each national meeting in turn by country of the reporting partner. Details of the reports are presented in sections looking at the audience profile of the event, the outcomes of the meetings, and the impact of the meeting. The report concludes with a summary of the feedback and information taken from each meetng, and present recommendatons for future meetngs and work of the network

Effect of a thermal care bundle on the prevention, detection and treatment of perioperative inadvertent hypothermia

Aims and Objectives: To improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of perioperative inadvertent hypothermia (PIH) in adult surgical patients by implementing a Thermal Care Bundle. Background: Keeping patients normothermic perioperatively prevents adverse surgical outcomes. Hypothermia leads to serious complications including increased risk of surgical bleeding, surgical site infections, and morbid cardiac events. The Thermal Care Bundle consists of three elements: 1) assess risk; 2) record temperature; and (3) actively warm. Design: A pre-post implementation study was conducted to determine the impact of the Thermal Care Bundle on the prevention, detection and treatment of PIH. Methods: The Thermal Care Bundle was implemented using an adapted version of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series Collaborative Model. Data were collected from auditing medical records. Results: Data from 729 patients (pre-implementation: n=351; post-implementation: n=378) at four sites were collected between December 2014 to January 2016. Improvements were recorded in the percentage of patients with a risk assessment; at least one documented temperature recording per perioperative stage; and appropriate active warming. Despite this, the overall incidence of PIH increased post-implementation. Conclusion: The Thermal Care Bundle facilitated improved management of PIH through increased risk assessment, temperature recording, and active warming but did not impact on PIH incidence. Increased temperature recording may have more accurately revealed the true extent of PIH in this population

Changing Curriculums for a Changing World? Living in Interesting Times: Digital Preservation Education, Pedagogy and Skills

As we live through the significant challenges of pandemic, information wars, climate change, and war in Europe, what skills do current students and future practitioners need to cope with managing digital materials in our historical moment? What might a holistic syllabus encompassing DP skills, knowledge, and personal qualities alongside awareness of social and political trends, and an understanding of the interplay between the two, look like in a Higher Education context? This workshop aims to discuss and disrupt the ideas around Digital Curation (DC) and Digital Preservation (DP) education for future professionals and those managing digital collections. It will bring together stakeholders drawn from the those delivering DP education, those learning, employers, and practitioners, to interrogate and reflect on the suitability of existing curricula in Higher Education (HE) for a changing world

Phosphoric Metabolites Link Phosphate Import and Polysaccharide Biosynthesis for Candida albicans Cell Wall Maintenance

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We declare no conflicts of interest. We thank Jesús Pla for his kind gift of the anti-Mkc1 antibody and Kristin Moffitt and Richard Malley for generous advice in ELISA technology and use of the ELISA reader. We thank Tahmeena Chowdhury for scientific discussions leading up to this work. We thank the Candida Genome Database. N.-N.L., M.A.-Z., W.Q., and J.R.K. were supported by R21 AI137716 and by Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics. M.A.-Z. was partially funded by the Alfonso Martin Escudero Foundation. J.D.-A. and O.L. were funded by the Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics and U19 AI118608-01A1. N.A.R.G. was supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Correction: Differential Adaptation of Candida albicans In Vivo Modulates Immune Recognition by Dectin-1

The b -glucan receptor Dectin-1 is a member of the C-type lectin family and functions as an innate pattern recognition receptor in antifungal immunity. In both mouse and man, Dectin-1 has been found to play an essential role in controlling infections with Candida albicans , a normally commensal fungus in man which can cause superficial mucocutaneous infections as well as life-threatening invasive diseases. Here, using in vivo models of infection, we show that the requirement for Dectin-1 in the control of systemic Candida albicans infections is fungal strain-specific; a phenotype that only becomes apparent during infection and cannot be recapitulated in vitro . Transcript analysis revealed that this differential requirement for Dectin-1 is due to variable adaptation of C. albicans strains in vivo , and that this results in substantial differences in the composition and nature of their cell walls. In particular, we established that differences in the levels of cell-wall chitin influence the role of Dectin-1, and that these effects can be modulated by antifungal drug treatment. Our results therefore provide substantial new insights into the interaction between C. albicans and the immune system and have significant implications for our understanding of susceptibility and treatment of human infections with this pathogen