Authenticated Networked Guided Environment for Learning
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Workpackages
All workpackage deliverables are listed on the left-hand side. Documents without links represent documents and services not yet due for delivery.
Workpackage Name |
Description |
| 1. Project Management | |
- Project plan - D1.1 |
The objectives of this workpackage are to deliver the objectives of the ANGEL Project according to the timescale and budget agreed with the IE Programme Office, as amended during the life of the project by the Project Board and to act as the primary channel of communication between ANGEL and the IE Programme Office, the JCAS Sparta working group, and other relevant national agencies and parallel projects. |
| - 1st report to DNER - D1.2 | |
| - 2nd report to DNER - D1.3 | |
| - 3rd report to DNER - D1.4 | |
| - 4th report to DNER - D1.5 | |
| - Conclusive report - D1.6 | |
| 2. Initial Formative Evaluation | |
| - Methodology - D2.1 |
This workpackage forms the initial research and formative evaluation for the ANGEL project. The research undertaken will take into consideration the range of different potential users of the ANGEL service, including staff and students at all levels across a variety of subject domains. By applying appropriate user needs analysis methods, a viable sample of user issues can be identified. |
| - Interview script | |
| - Recommendations | |
| - Final report - D2.2 | |
| 3. - Dissemination and Monitoring | |
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- Study and recommendations - D3.1 |
This workpackage will explore issues and technologies of interest to a wide community including academics, librarians, and IT managers, as well as standards organisations and other projects. Tasks will include an initial state of the art study and literature review, maintenance of a technology watch, and various dissemination activities. |
| - Technology watch - D3.2 | |
| - Newsletter - D3.4a | |
| - Information Pack - D3.4b | |
| - ANGEL demonstrators - D3.5 | |
| 4. ANGEL Conceptual Design | |
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- Conceptual
design - D4.1 |
Following the findings of formative evaluation work, the conceptual design for the ANGEL system will be developed. It will take into account issues of user accessibility (including accessibility for users with differing sensory and motor abilities) and standards and protocols for integration of relevant resources. The focus will be on "resource discovery" (metadata, searching and browsing), "access" (full and part-content delivery) and navigation (support and tracking). The identification, understanding and support for standards for the integration of existing metadata (regarding users, systems and learning resources). |
| - Internal messaging specification - D4.2 | |
| 5. Development of ANGEL System | |
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- System specification - D5.1 |
The development of original software by ANGEL will follow the conceptual model (Deliverable 4.1) produced in Workpackage 4. Components will interoperate using the internal protocols defined in Deliverable 4.2. Service modules will be produced in at least two prototype versions for testing and feedback, with a final release package (including all necessary documentation) that should be capable of implementation by an appropriately equipped HE or FE institution that has had no previous connection with the ANGEL project. |
| - Angel prototype - D5.2 | |
| - Angel server - D5.3 | |
| - Angel documentation - D5.4 | |
| 6. Authentication and Authorisation | |
| - Specification - D6.1 (see main project plan) |
The ANGEL server to be developed in Workpackage 5 will provide a comprehensive range of online middleware services to support authentication of end-users, collation of 'user metadata' from institutional directory sources to establish the roles and rights of end-users based on group memberships, and the transparent authorisation of end-users to access those information and learning resources for which they have access rights. The purpose of Workpackage 6 is to implement and test interoperability and compatibility with national and global models and systems for Ac&As, including (but not necessarily limited to, if possible) PAPI and Shibboleth. Workpackage 6 will also document policy guidelines for the implementation and operation of future Ac&As services by JISC on a national scale. |
| - PAPI and Shibboleth demonstrators - D6.2 | |
| - PAPI and Shibboleth reports - D6.3 | |
| - Report for Sparta on AA developments - D6.4 | |
| - Namespace report - D6.5 | |
| 7. Evaluate System and Use | |
| - Final Evaluation Report - D7.1 |
This workpackage will constitute the main summative evaluation of the project. SBU will take no direct role in the design and systems development elements of ANGEL (apart from ongoing evaluation, dissemination and monitoring as described in WP3), and will act as 'arms length' evaluators of the working deliverables produced by other partners. Evaluation criteria would be likely to include ease of installation, user interface design, functionality, documentation / help, ease of use, speed of response etc. Adherence to broad design principles such as use of open standards, support for collaboration, support for audit etc. will also be evaluated. |
