Shortlisted for a Times Higher Education Award
by Christopher Gutteridge
Some very exciting news. I’m proud to say that Southampton have been short-listed for the Times Higher Education awards for “Outstanding ICT Initiative of the year” and the submission was for our work with data.southampton.ac.uk!
This may involve me having to wear a dinner jacket, which may get a chuckle from people who know my usual, er, style.
While I’ve worked very hard on the open data service, none of it would be possible without the help of dozens of people from all around the University, so it really is an award to the whole university. That said, I’m hoping I’m the one who gets the tasty dinner!
Unplanned Downtime
by Christopher Gutteridge
Some of the data.southampton.ac.uk related services have been unavailable this morning due to an unplanned power cut.
Sorry about that.
As the service becomes more important to the University, it’s clear that we need to make sure it’s as robust as possible, and reduce the risk of incidents like this in future.