10.05 Systems overview
Welcome to the chapter on IT systems. We prefer open-source tools and open-data formats:
- Markdown, a markup language, which allows us to creating formatted documents, papers, websites, presentations using plain text (formatting such as headings, lists, bold, italics, and links). It is platform-independent, integrates well with git, and can easily be converted to other formats (e.g., PDF, HTML, DOCX) using Pandoc. Citations can be included via the CSL project.
- Git, a distributed version control system to collaborate on software development projects, data analyses, paper writing, and teaching materials. It allows users to work on the same file, to track changes, to merge different versions or branches, and revert to any previous state.
The structure of the handbook is used to to organize files on nextcloud. Projects are structured as follows.
Table-of-contents
- General systems
- Systems for teaching
- Systems for research
- Systems for funding
- System administration tasks
General systems
| System | Description |
|---|---|
| The digital-work-lab handbook | - Hosted on GitHub - Editing guidelines - Distributed version control system to collaborate in software development projects, and for collaborating in writing and teaching - Our preferred choice for manuscripts, and lecture material |
| Nextcloud | - Clients - Contains all confidential materials for lab management, teaching, research, funding, and service (following the same structure as the handbook). - “Anmelden”, URL: https://nc-2272638881871040784.nextcloud-ionos.com/, give access in Browser (pop-up), accept default settings- Our preferred choice for confidential data, and binary/large files - Guideline: TODO |
| - Every member of the university gets a mail assigned - Personnel has the format firstname.surname@uni-bamberg.de while student mail addresses have the format firstname1-firstname2-firstname3-(...).surname@stud.uni-bamberg.de- The messages are accessible via Outlook or any other e-mail client | |
| Teams | - Platform for collaboration and organization, allowing users to create different areas called “Teams” to work together or manage part of their online teaching - Shared chat and separate chats in different channels - Lectures and seminars can be held as phone or video meetings with up to 250 participants - Recording functionality - Collaborate on files within a team |
| Zoom | - Online service for web conferencing - Teaching as Meetings or Webinars - Recording functionality - For events that exclusively involve members students of our university, please use Teams because of data security and privacy concerns |
| Calendly | - Allow students to book appointments, which are automatically added to the Outlook calendar - Example: 30-minute meeting |
| Nuudel | - Doodle replacement |
| Eduroam | - Wi-Fi network to use within the university - Log-in with university credentials |
| VPN | - For security reasons, some Services are only available via VPN or within the university network - Fileserver - A few sites of the www-Server - campusprint - Intranet of the university - Some research resources |
| ZUV | - Finance - Hiring (student assistants) - Ordering office supplies |
| UnivIS | - University Information System - Course catalog - Lecturer information (TBD: Raumbuchungen??) |
| Corporate Design | - Needed for creating presentations and papers - Templates and guidelines for designing - Schemes like the university colors, the university-badge, the university-font and more |
| LanguageTools | - Free Online Spellchecker |