Centre for Cultural and Industrial Technologies Research (CiTech)

Projects

Future Proof Computing

Games and Gameplay

 Institute of Industrial Research

  •  Automatic Software to test flight data recorders for airworthiness
  • Diagnostic System for Dairy Machines
  • Data Logger for the transportation of Expensive Goods
  • Diagnostics of Large Data Storage Systems
  • Automatic Diagnostics System for Searching Flight Data
  • Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics of Electric Vehicles

 

Further Information:

The KEEP Project – Keeping Emulation Environments Portable

Date Commenced: February 2009 – March 2012
Funded by: FP7 EU Grant Agreement ICT 231954 (£4m)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Anderson

KEEP is a European consortium which is developing emulation techniques for preserving digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. Although primarily aimed at those involved in Cultural Heritage, such as memory institutions and games museums, the Emulation Services we develop also serve the needs of a wide range of organisations and individuals because of their universal approach based on porting emulators on a Virtual Machine. In this way we are creating the foundation for the next generation of permanent access strategies based on emulation.

The particular focus of the Portsmouth KEEP team within the wider effort is the investigation of metadata models to describe the technical environment needed for emulation; creating GUIs for both the Emulation Framework, and the Virtual Machine peripheral device manager; developing a transfer tool framework; and dissemination to the Computer Science community.

Project Partners: Joguin sas, the Dutch, German and French national libraries, the German Computer Museum, Tessella, the European Games Federation.  

For more information, please visit the KEEP Project website.


POCOS – Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia

Date commenced: February 2011 - March 2012
Funded by: JISC (£130k)
Principal investigators: Dr Janet Delve and Dr David Anderson

The POCOS project will deliver a series of three symposia on 1. Simulations and Visualisations 2. Digital Art and 3. Computer Games at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on these topics. Each seminar will be supported by a substantial and innovative dissemination programme to ensure that the maximum long-term value is obtained from the outputs of the seminar. This will include the production of a peer-reviewed book of the outputs from each symposium offered to the community in a variety of formats . POCOS will deliver pathfinder conclusions to the JISC community which will contribute to shaping the future direction of research in this area.

Project Partners: University of Portsmouth, British Library, King's College London, HATII (University of Glasgow), Joguin sas.

For more information, please visit the POCOS Project website at http://www.pocos.org/


Digital Preservation Console Project (Development Study)

Date commenced: June-August 2010
Funded by: JISC (£13k)
Principal investigators: Dr David Anderson and Dr Janet Delve

This small project seeks to investigate the extent to which it might be possible to develop an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) to enable non-specialist information professionals to undertake a variety of preservation and information management tasks with a minimum of preservation‐specific theoretical knowledge. This ‘Digital Preservation Console’, should offer considerable opportunity for capacity‐building across institutions to manage, preserve and strategically discard digital material.


Data Warehousing in Digital Preservation

Date commenced: February 2011 - October 2011
Funded by: JISC (£2k)
Principal investigator: Dr Janet Delve and Dr David Anderson

This innovative project seeks to apply the many benefits of data warehousing as identified in a commercial arena to digital preservation, especially in terms of national archives. It also explores possible uses of data warehousing for preserving databases.


thechineseroom: commercialisation of practice-led, research-driven experimental storytelling in games

Date commenced: August 2011
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Principal Investigator: Dr Dan Pinchbeck

This project has two aims. Firstly, it investigates a model for self-sustaining / self-funding experimental research games, achieved by the commercial release of a research game. Secondly, it investigates the unique potential for non-linear storytelling in games, by expanding on the previous success of the AHRC funded mod Dear Esther and applying the principles of abstract game storytelling developed there to a fully non-linear game setting.

For further details, please visit www.thechineseroom.co.uk

 

Automatic Software to test flight data recorders for airworthiness

Date commenced: June 2010
Funded by: TSB/Flight Data Services Ltd (£217,000.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown

 

Diagnostic System for Dairy Machines

Date commenced: July 2010
Funded by: TSB/Stork (£229,000.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown

 

Data Logger for the transportation of Expensive Goods

Date commenced: July 2010
Funded by: TSB/STS Defence Ltd (£217,000.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown

 

Diagnostics of Large Data Storage Systems

Date commenced: July 2010
Funded by: TSB/Xyratex Ltd (£217,000.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown

 

Automatic Diagnostics System for Searching Flight Data

Date commenced: December 2005
Funded by: TSB/Flight Data Services Ltd (£126,492.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown

 

Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics of Electric Vehicles

Date commenced: March 2007
Funded by: TSB/PML Ltd (£204,000.00)
Principal Investigator: Dr David Brown