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Team (u)CLI finish 3rd!
By Samantha Ahern, on 9 December 2024
Team (u)CLI finish 3rd in the national Computing Insights UK student Cluster Challenge! Team members from left to right: Zak Morgan, Dept of Computer Science Rozenn Raffaut, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Tom Bickley, Dept of Chemistry Yuliang Huang, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Qi Li, Dept of Med Phys & […]
The ARC TRE
By George Svarovsky, on 28 November 2024
The Advanced Research Computing Trusted Research Environment (ARC TRE) is available for UCL researchers. It can be found at https://tre.arc.ucl.ac.uk/. What is the ARC TRE? The ARC TRE provides compute environments, with desktops for each researcher, for projects working on sensitive data. You can think of each project space as a secured virtual room with […]
UCL ARC at the 2024 International RSE Conference
By Jonathan Cooper, on 18 November 2024
This year’s RSE conference took place from 3rd – 5th September in Newcastle. Around 20 ARC staff attended in person, with several others joining in the hybrid experience remotely. The latter has been steadily improving year on year, at least for contributing to the formal parts of the conference programme. The informal conversations are still […]
Alignment of the Agile Manifesto to a Research Context
By Monika Byrne Svata, on 14 November 2024
This article proposes aligning the language of the original Agile Manifesto – written over 20 years ago, for software development in a commercial setting – with our current context of digital research projects involving research software engineering, data science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure development. This work was inspired by discussion about the wording of […]
Team (u)CLI are Go!
By Samantha Ahern, on 22 October 2024
ARC are excited to announce this year’s team for the CIUK Cluster Challenge – (u)CLI! Zak Morgan, Dept of Computer Science Rozenn Raffaut, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Qi Li, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Yuliang Huang, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Tom Bickley, Dept of Chemistry Shahid Khalid, […]
Introducing: High Level Designs!
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 23 September 2024
What? High level designs give an overall idea to how a project and its components are structured, typically with the aid of a diagram. If you’ve worked with AWS or the CDI, you’ve probably seen some architecture diagrams outlining the flow of the app with various services – this is the sort of idea we’re […]
ARC at UN’s OSPOs for Good and What’s next for OSS?
By David Pérez-Suárez, on 26 July 2024
I, together with Malvika Sharan and Arielle Bennett from the Alan Turing Institute / The Turing Way and Neil Chue Hong from Software Sustainable Institute, attended at the beginning of July OSPOs for Good symposium at the United Nations Headquarters, representing research institutions from the UK. What’s an OSPO? An Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) […]
RSE Initiatives – 6 months in
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 7 June 2024
What? At ARC I think it would be fair to say we strive to develop and improve not only on an individual level, but also on a group level. One of the ways we are doing this is through our RSE (Research Software Engineer) Initiatives – aiming to advance/evolve the RSE team to improve collaboration […]
Creating Custom Font Symbols
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024
Why? There are various reasons why researchers may want to include custom symbols to a font; they may want to represent a new concept or add characters from historical sources that are not available in a font yet. Being able to do so makes their work more accessible to colleagues and the public. In the […]
Customising Rich Text Editors
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024
Why? Customising rich text editors within web apps offers significant benefits, particularly for researchers in Digital Humanities. While basic text editors fulfil essential functions, rich text editors (RTEs) can incorporate features such as rich text formatting and customisable styling, allowing for clearer and more engaging presentation of textual information. Whilst they provide greater benefits than […]
