The NBN Trust would like to invite interested parties to attend two workshops in London, which are being held on Thursday 20th November, the day before the Network’s annual conference on 21st November. The purpose of these workshops is to immediately start to engage members in NBN strategy implementation. The workshops will provide an opportunity for members to work together creatively and strengthen the Network. They will also create a shared ownership of the Network’s work programme.
The focus of these two workshops will be to:
1. Undertake an NBN Gateway user needs analysis with the aim of developing a more user friendly NBN Gateway interface; and
2. Revise the NBN Gateway Terms and Conditions
We will be running the two workshops twice so that those that are interested can attend both, but numbers will be limited.
Please complete the form to register your interest in either, or both of these workshops. We will confirm your place by the end of September.
Contact Mandy Henshall or Sarah Hyslop at support@nbn.org.uk if you have any questions.
Details
When: Thursday 20 November 2014 Where: Natural History Museum, London Time: Each workshop will be run twice daily:
- Morning session – 10.15am – 1.15pm
- Afternoon session – 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Lunch will not be provided, so please bring your own. There are plenty of local places to purchase lunch and there are cafes within the Museum.
Workshop 1.
Undertake an NBN Gateway user needs analysis with the aim of developing a more user friendly NBN Gateway interface (Maximum 20 for each session)
This workshop will focus on exploring ways to improve the user interface of the NBN Gateway for a range of biodiversity data providers and users.
- How do you currently use the NBN Gateway?
- How do you want to interact with the NBN Gateway?
- What changes should be made to increase engagement to existing and new audiences?
- What data products would you like to access on the NBN Gateway?
- How would you like other existing resources connected to the NBN Gateway?
- Is NBN Gateway the right name?
This workshop will examine the NBN Gateway from graphics to data outputs. We will critically analyse the current NBN Gateway and be creative in developing ideas for alternative user interfaces and data products.
If you are a user of the NBN Gateway, or a data provider, and have a vision as how the NBN Gateway should look, or ideas for how it could be improved to make your life easier or would like to be involved in the discussion we welcome your creativity. Bring an open mind!
Workshop 2.
Review of NBN Gateway Terms and Conditions (Maximum 12 for each session)
This workshop will focus on reviewing clauses within the current NBN Gateway Terms and Conditions.
- Are the current clauses all appropriate?
- What is good about them and what is bad?
- Can a simpler suite of conditions be developed?
- How can we make it easier for organisations and individuals to move towards an open data sharing model?
- How might the Terms and Conditions be interpreted by different audiences?
With a global shift towards open data sharing, the current Terms and Conditions are rapidly becoming outdated if we are to keep up with global trends. The reasons for this review is that the terms and conditions are considered too restrictive for many audiences, are difficult for users to understand and adhere to, and data providers are asking for a simpler suite of options. The NBN Trust would like to invite you to join this discussion to critically analyse and refresh the current Terms & Conditions.
This workshop is open to everyone, though we will be focussing on the technical aspect of data licenses and the resulting Terms and Conditions required.