DIVAS Meeting Update

Present: Ben, Sam, Shaun, Chris & Sue.

We discussed what we will be recording in the metadata file when uploading validation documents to HIVE. In addition, we discussed the 'submission form' and some the process involved in uploading and searching for documents in HIVE.

This is what we decided:

Subject (XCRI = Subject)

• Discussed use of JACs
• Decided not to use this field/element at the moment

Level (XCRI = Level)

• Chris to provide a definitive list of levels for Drop-down / Look-up List
• Multiple instances recorded

Validation Date (XCRI = @generated)

• Date to be recorded = date of validation panel

Face-2-Face (XCRI = AttendenceMode)

• Drop-down / Look-up List:


1. Face-2-Face
2. Distance
3. Blended

Site of Delivery (XCRI = Venue)

• Multiple instances recorded

Form of Assessment (XCRI = AssessmentStrategy)

• Discuss it’s relevance for validation
• Could be useful for recording data for disability
• Decided not to use this field/element at the moment

Mode of Delivery (XCRI = StudyMode)

• Drop-down / Look-up List:

1. Full Time
2. Part Time
3. Fast Track 2 Year

• Multiple instances recorded

Faculty/School (XCRI = TBC)

• Need to investigate this further – where to record in XCRI
• Drop-down / Look-up List:

1. Faculty of Arts, Media and Design (AMD)
2. Business School
3. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology (FCET)
4. Law School
5. Faculty of Health
6. Faculty of Science
7. Academic Development Institute (ADI)

Award Title (XCRI = Title)

• Record a String title unique to the document being uploaded
• Multiple instances recorded

Professional Body / Association (XCRI = AccreditedBy)

• Chris to provide a definitive list of levels for Drop-down / Look-up List

Recording Document Types

Possibly recorded in XCRI Description – unique to the individual documents being uploaded

Pre-Validation Document Types
1. Validation Support Descriptor
2. Rational
3. Programme Specification
4. Module Descriptor
5. Handbooks

a. Award / Student
b. Module
c. Placement
d. Mentor
e. *Sue to speak to R. Bennifer about other types for Work Based Learning

6. Resources

Post-Validation Document Tyes
7. Validation Report
8. Validation Report Response

The Validation Collection

• The documents are recorded as a collection in a ‘Catalogue’ folder in HIVE
• Currently the title of the collection / ‘Catalogue’ is largely heuristic (made up) by QIS – as evidenced in the shared QIS drive