Blog: A Whole Lot Of Hats

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Last week I spent a DELIGHTFUL couple of days at the Figshare & Symplectic EMEA User Conference 2024.

To clarify, before we go any further, I'm not being sarcastic or anything here - I really did have a lovely time, spending two days with excellent colleagues talking about the two systems what I manage at work. HANG ON - no, I mean I AM being sarcastic, because obviously I am too cool and rock and roll to think it's really interesting to talk about the implications of the lack of REF guidelines for the future of academic impact data collection. THAT WOULD BE KRAZY.

Yes yes all right that was me and it was GRATE. As I have mentioned before, I am in the strange (for me) situation of really enjoying my job these days, and it turns out that that makes conferences a whole lot more fun to go to, especially when you're with WORK PALS who are similarly interested. The only downside of it all was that I was forced - FORCED, I tell you - to do a presentation about one of our projects. As regular readers will be aware I HATE showing off, as you can see for yourself in the video below:



The talk was about how we transferred an archive of The Piaggi Collection (a lot of HATS) from an old system and set up on Figshare. We did this earlier on in the year and, as you will see from the talk, there was a specific point in the data migration where I thought "OOH blimey, this will be AMAZING for a presentation" and took LOTS of screenshots. I won't spoil WHAT happened as it is a dead good bit in the presentation, and is worth seeing for yourself, honest! It's also worth having a look at The Piaggi Collection site itself as you can zip around looking at all sorts of aspects of the HATS for yourself. I have never been a hat fan before I must admit (having a GIGANTIC HEAD I have never really got on with them) but I must admit this experience has converted me. Maybe I don't need 800 of them though!

posted 14/11/2024 by MJ Hibbett

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Was the hat database renewal process AGILE? Or was it really merely straightforward and a load of old hat? Will you write a song 'A Load Of Old Hat'?
posted 15/11/2024 by I also did hat maintenance today. On my hat. It needed a new crown shaper, which I made out of a takeaway box

I think this article shows the same problem that you ran into https://www.inkl.com/news/stars-show-support-for-palestine-at-scottish-bafta-awards
posted 18/11/2024 by it's a database backed website, innit?

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