This is gonna be like pure white on the background, because everything in this, I'm showing how it's, like, white background, so I was like, ah, can't really fix it, so. We're all doing white! Hey!  Okay? You've had you awning let's go! Bye-bye! Okay so hello everyone and welcome! Today we're gonna do a video of looking at the newest or some of the newest anyway, and I'm not gonna showcase them because some of them I'm not really that fussed about, but they knew Jurassic World to mean toys! Because what's better when the movie comes out? We get lots of toys! This has been taken mostly from Collect Jurassic, so I will link the article or his website down below where I got a lot of this information from. So we're going to be going over these toys, I'm going to be sort of, you know, giving them, giving you my honest thoughts on them and stuff. But do support them there, they actually got their, you know, YouTube and Instagram and everything reinstated. So, I mean, this is really good news, because there was, not too long ago, they got striked and lost their Instagram and it was all this big thing and now it's all taken care of. So here we go! So first up we have the ferocious pack. So there's going to be more of these at the enter, but we have the, I don't know what that one is, Dimetrodon, the baby Nezuto Saratops, Battle of Big Rock, which I think is, I assume, going to appear in Dominion. There's a reason why we saw those Nezuto Saratop. Nezuto Saratop Eye, yeah, that one. There's a reason why I saw them in Fallen Kingdom and I think we even see them in the trailer for Dominion as well, knocking over some vehicle, as well as the Atrociraptor. That is right, I need like just a, just a thing that I could just draw right on there you go. The Atrociraptor as well makes an appearance here. As you can see it's got like the sickle claw there on it, on it's two. And I don't know what this thing is, but my God is it an abomination. We have like two fingers, so it's like a T-Rex kind of, I think it's supposed to be a young Changasaurus. I think, I could be wrong. The fact that it's got like feathers out here and here and feathers there, it has, you know, the two iconic T-Rex finger things it has. So I'm assuming it's a young Changasaurus. I could have went on the article and found it myself, but that's too easy. So moving quickly on, I have nothing really to say here. These are obviously like the cheap and cheerful kind of toys that we'll get for like, I don't know, $5.99 or $6.99, $7.99 or whatever it is. Next, we start with a new, we actually see the packaging, which is, oh, unless we not forget the Jurassic World packaging. Remember that T-Rex? Oh, it's beautiful. Love that thing. But we have a much better render of a T-Rex here. I love this sort of, you know, nighttime shot we've got going. Of all of the, I mean, we've seen three so far and we'll go over them. Pachycephalosaurus being the first one we're showing here. Now, normally the dinosaurs had their little DNA code on the foot, which you would scan in the Mattel app and you would unlock it. I think you would learn a little bit about it and unlock the 3D model. The models were all just like Ludia models. We've seen this a lot when it's come to Universal. They take models from other games and put them in different ones. So this app has a lot of Ludia games, like Jurassic World, the game, Jurassic World Live models. And then also Primalops has a lot of Jurassic World Evolution models in it. It's very odd. I guess it saves time, but for someone who spends so much time in the universe of Jurassic, this comes across as lazy, especially when they don't credit them. It's like, oh, well, Universal, we own that. So we're going to use it everywhere. I love the packaging. It's a really nice look to it. However, this Pachycephalosaurus, we've already had one. We've already had a Pachycephalosaurus. And not only that, it had a better paint scheme. I mean, it's obvious that this is supposed to be the lost world, Pachycephalosaurus, but we already had that. When Fallen Kingdom first came out, when the Legacy Collection first came out, Pachycephalosaurus was released with this color scheme. It all beat a bit different. It was more greenish. But as you can see here, there's like a slot inside of its back where you get this, the DNA code which you scan. And I don't know whether this is supposed to stop kids from scanning it without buying the toy, because as you can see here, there's like a little bit of the strap on it. I know what that strap is. It's just elastic. It can easily just like, and it's just another thing that, you know, it's either going to be nicked or go missing, I feel. Maybe it locks in and it's like a push release, like a proper advanced thing, but I don't know. But the next one we see is one that has never been in a Jurassic World movie, a live or Jurassic movie at all. I think its skull was in the Lockwood Manor with all the seratopsians and stuff like that. Always remember back to Utah, the Natural History Museum, and you have all those skulls up there. It was a beautiful sight. If you ever get a chance to go there, I'd highly recommend you go there. Even though it says Legacy, well, we have a new seratopsid toy. I don't know whether it was meant to be something else, but Cosmo seratops is definitely not being in. And of course, the same sort of gimmick there. Nothing much to say. Paint application leaves a little bit to be desired. I mean, the thing is right, because now I'm into modeling, or not modeling, like I'm into painting models and miniatures. I look at this and I go, yeah, that took me like two seconds. I like to do. I've got an airbrush and I can literally just a little bit of rare. I mean, from the looks of it to the stencils or it's airbrushed, it looks very easy. Apart from, you know, these bits here, probably being brushed on or some sort of paint application. Isn't an airbrush, but it's very bland, very basic. And then again, this is Legacy. They're the $7.99. They're cheapest chips, but especially with there's no, like, it's just black dot for the eye. Come on, man. If you're going to do it, do a little bit more effort. Whereas here we go. We have a Velociraptor. I'm assuming this is supposed to be the Raptor from the Lost World. Something that we've run into when it comes to this, the issues. I mean, again, the cheaper chips, cheapest chips, I should say. The paint application is not so bad. It's actually got paint for the eye as well as like a pupil for the eye, which is very nice. It's got a paint on the underbelly. I can't really complain. It's even a new kind of attack feature. I don't even know what this feature is like. A swivel. Fair enough. You remember the Godzilla toys with the claw and stuff like that? I don't know. But the swivel, it does a little dance as well as the DNA thing. It's not so bad. What you could say it needs like paint applications onto the toe claws there. But really, the biggest thing I guess I could say about this being a legacy collection. And you do have the Jurassic Park gate in there too, I suppose, is that the head is not the head of a Jurassic, well, the Lost World Raptor. It's the head of a Jurassic Park free Raptor. Just minus the quills and coloring. Now onto something a bit different and a very empty screen because these haven't really been shown too much. A remote controlled Jeep Gladiator. But it looks like it has some sort of capture equipment on the front. Like this here, this is like V shaped thing. Looks like it swivels from here and comes out to face the front. Easy to get your models in and out of the vehicle, which is very nice. So it doesn't actually have to have openable doors, if I can even say English games. But it's hard, I swear. I swear, it tells you. So you can just put your figures in without having the extra cost of actually having doors and sure that would add to the cost of we'd have those consumers pay. It looks like it comes with the Draco Rex, maybe, with a different paint application. Yeah, not bad. I just wish that it would have the biosyn logo. There is a Lego version. In fact, I'll probably pop it up now if I remember, but actually did it on the smaller scale and put the biosyn on it so I don't understand why it just can't be here or here. You know, just make it smaller. I would trade that for whatever the heck this is. Like, oh, we got some canisters as a sticker. This is for biosyn. And not only that, but we're using a Jurassic World logo even officially used. I think it was used on posters actually. I think it was when the movie came out, but the toys ended up using a different one. It's very, very, very early Jurassic World logo, especially it's even on the frickin remote control. Well, anyway, we don't spend too long because we got this. I love this thing. This looks good. Again, missing the biosyn. Fair enough, but why I would like to have had the biosyn because what are dinosaurs without their counterpart? They need something to play off against. You need the vehicles to capture them. You need an army-based sort of, you know, dinosaurs versus that sort of thing. That's what I used to do when I was a kid. And this is called the caption crush truck. You'll notice they like this. You know, this thing, eventually it'll just be called the truck. So we've got obviously a little thing here where a mercenary or some sort of person could set the back and fire a missile at the front and go, it looks like you've got lights. It'd be really cool if they did light up. It's not too much to ask for really when you think about it because the Jurassic World or Lost World RV did have lights. It was like a separate thing you put in and it had lights and it made noises. So this looks like it could very well have lights. I'd love if it did. If this was like a separate thing, they just sort of plugged in and clipped on to the bottom and it had some light. That would be cool. You know, kids playing the dark or something like that. Yeah, that would look awesome. Yeah, that'd be so cool because then you'd like see the dinosaurs lit up and everything. Anyway, a little caption crush. I love that the idea of this is it just picks up dinosaurs and crushes them and kills them. It does look like this is either battle damage or a way to put your, capture your dinosaurs or where you put your figures in like a transport. I don't know if they'll go. They probably will. This is probably all open top and you can just shove like a character in here through that way, I would say. And this looks like it rotates. This love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. 10 out of 10. Now we're going to see for the first time our, you know, AT Rex. It's not the first that we're going to showcase here. The thrash devour Tyrannosaurus Rex. I feel like I've seen, I mean, this to me doesn't look like an actual product. This looks like they've taken an original, you know, an actual T Rex, like the orange one, and they've just like photoshopped over the top of it of what the color schema look like. But also, ah, I know the T Rex. I'm sick of it. I've got too many T Rex's and I wouldn't care if it was just one T Rex, right? Fair enough, but we've already got two and the toy line hasn't released yet. You've got a little action bit here. So I think it is pretty much the same T Rex as we've seen in the past. I think I have this one. I think if you click that, it like rotates its head or something like that. I'm not spent too long on that one. Extreme damage. Here we go. Now an official look at the Jurassic World Dominion packaging. We have the Velociraptor and we have the Colorus or Silorus. And I think this came in like way three or four with Fallen Kingdom. I think I have it. It's actually, well, it's interesting actually. I think the Colorus in Fallen Kingdom set is actually this kind of color except a little bit more red. These are the 3D renders, these two. But then these are the actual products. And as you can see on the renders, they've got like a clear slash through them and then on the actual products, they've got red. They also have an action feature it looks like. I'm not sure if you press that because it shows you pressing it here, but it doesn't show what it does. Maybe the head moves, but then I don't know. I think they might just be posable. So if you press that, maybe the red inside glows and it makes a noise. Possibly. It doesn't say in it, I don't think. At least no evidence is shown to give it any voice features. But I will admit, this raptor is sexy. Guys, that's a nasty raptor. I like it. I like the color scheme. I like the eye, the orange eye to contrast with the pale and cool colors. The rest of it, the black sickle clothes. Shame that the hand clothes aren't painted. But that, even the paint application for inside the mouth, if it does look like that, because you can see the eyes actually here on the model itself. Ooh, that is a beautiful raptor. Beautiful. Moving on to why are we still here? Oh, oh no. No, you were so close. I don't understand this. For a start, I think these are actually bigger than the snap squad. So what you're seeing at the bottom here, I think these are either a new wave of snap squad or their old waves. But basically, I'm bringing them up here against these things because they just do everything better. The snap squad. I don't get this. I don't get the realistic head and the weird chibi proportions. In fact, well, this is actually baby blue. This is beta. It's actually not blue. So that kind of makes a little bit more sense because it is the baby version. But then again, why? Why? Just make a snap squad. Look at the personality. This looks, these bottom guys look like they could be from lamp before time or something. They could be their own, starring in their own little, you know, animation. Whereas this looks like, oh, it's hot. Oh no, it does nothing for me. I mean, yeah, you press the button on its head right there and then it does a roar, as you can see, and it looks like it moves forward. Maybe it jumps or something. Maybe it's got wheels underneath it. The uncaged. No, no, nothing about that says I want to buy that at all. I don't like, tell me in the comments below what you think. But this is, ooh, no. If I wanted a chibi little version, I got a snap squad. It's cheap and cheerful. It'll be like four quid if that. This thing, because it's got electronics in it and a battery and multi, it's going to be like 10 to 12 quid. Oh, it's like three or four times the price. No, no, no, no, no, no. Mattel, I don't know what you were doing. But anyway, just thought I'd let you know. That's my review of that. This one as well. This is another, oh, no. So basically what they've done is they've taken the Colossal Legacy Brachiosaur. They've put new paint on it. I don't know what to say. I honestly think they've actually legit taken the original one. Maybe it didn't sell that well. And then they just put this paint on it and they put a little bit of glitter on it and then they put different colors on here. And then they've added this thing. And now they're repackaged it. They're selling it. They're selling it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not falling for this rubbish. I don't like this at all. I don't know what you've tried to do. You've tried to bling it up. This is like pizza with gold leaf on it. I'm not going to pay another 100 quid for gold leaf. You kidding me? It's a waste of money and gold. Use that for something else. Jesus. I don't know what. This, nah.  Don't even know what the sound is. Did I put it in? Who knows? Anyway, onto the Roaring Allosaurus Extreme Damage. Interesting. Now, I don't know whether I mentioned that with the Raptors or the Extreme Damage, that having a constant damage on show has never been, I've never liked it. You know, that's supposed to be after the fight or something like that, but it goes into it with the damage and even as a kid, I was like, I know what you're trying to do, but no, I'm all right. Very interesting.  I'm all right. It's very similar. It's a lot bigger than the Allosaurus we have at the moment, but then again, it's, it's tail is so short. Not even the length of its head to its thigh. So it's, it would, I don't know, if you're making it bigger, at least make the tail bigger. I get it's like awkward and that adds for packaging, but have it detachable and then not only detachable, but have it like, or detachable, have it detachable so you can take it off. Because a lot of these things, like the, the brachysaur, once you, once you clip that tail on, you're done.  So, another meh is this T-Rex, a second T-Rex. Maybe it's not a legacy T-Rex or whatever, but this is a Jurassic World Dominion one, extreme damage. Again, not a fan of it. This to me screams, it's just the, um, it's a recolored Jurassic legacy T-Rex because that one also was very basic. It was very cheap. I think it was like 19 pound of that. I don't know what that is in dollars, a detachable tail. Except for this time, it's got like an action feature. Again, it's got a button you push down that does something. It doesn't tell you exactly what it does, um, but there's some sort of thing going on with the neck. I'm not too sure what that is. Um, and also the DNA card thing that you pull out, but this. Anyway, now onto this. Oh wow, the giga, super colossal giga. Now I've deliberately sort of added this little bit in here in case anyone was sort of curious as to what this thing looked like with its mouth closed. So it probably looks something like that. I sort of have a little play around with it, um, because I'm sure it'll be able to open and close its mouth, or at least I hope so, if it's going to put stuff in it. So if you're, if anyone knows anything about the, um, the colossal line, it's basically a giant hunk of plastic that's hollow, um, and you can put other dinosaurs into it. And it takes up a lot of space. I mean a lot of space. And it's, as far as playability with other things, it doesn't really synergize with anything. It's kind of just this big statement piece. If you don't have much room for, you know, toys or collectibles, maybe you just want like one big one. And then here's, this is it for you. It's our first proper look outside of the trailer, officially at the giga. Um, and it looks exactly like it does. It's got the, it's got the mean eyebrows at the top. You've got all of these scales as well, these vicious looking things. Very villainous, very evil looking. It's also got a bit of the endominus Rex in the jaw as well, which I don't think it did in the movie. I think this is just them. I mean, they know that Dom's Rex sold well. They're trying to make it look like an endominus Rex, even with the jaw like unhinge in a way. Whereas that was very endominus Rex in, you've got a little bit of it here. Yeah. It's, it's very, it screams endominus Rex, but also a little bit different. So yeah. Really cool. Nice looking. I mean, we'll definitely have a look at it and compare it to the other things, of course. I mean, what else do we got to do here? It's not like we spend our money on anything else, but dinosaur toys and now sound slash and there is anisaurus. Look at the there is anisaurus that we have seen in the trailer. This is a very nice piece. You've got the articulation here. You got articulation there. You'll have articulation at the elbow. So this claw should be able to make a variety of different, here I am doing it for you, a variety of different maneuvers. I'm assuming that you'll have a ball joint in the wrist. So it's hand could literally do that. This is like a pivot and a flex back and forward. So basically the same. And I assume this is a ball joint as well for the elbow. So you can do anything like you can have this thing hold something. You could have it like go up to slash something, you can pose it in loads of different ways. So if we just have a look at all of these points of articulation, there's so many. And you'll probably have one for the tail. And let's not even forget the actual jaw itself will be detachable. So you've got, oh not detachable, like up moving, open up and down, I guess. You could open its mouth. There we go. We can say it eventually. So yeah, out of all of them so far, I think this sound slash and there is anisaurus is up there with toys that I'm most excited for 100%. This thing looks so freaking cool. I like the color. I mean, this white looks a bit odd. It's like too white.  And you can see it here.  But this would be the thing I'm most, most excited for if it weren't for something that has just recently been revealed. And that is the friggin ease of sonic capture. I mean, we need like hold on. Where is it? There it is. There it is. Hell yeah. Look at this thing. This, I feel, wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for Jurassic Park fans. And I know that the Jurassic Outpost have a lot to do with, you know, Mattel have a lot of contact with Universal. So this wouldn't surprise me if this only manifested into existence because of them and us as Jurassic Park fans, because it is so good. Not only do we have something that was incredibly rare to come by outside of America, or at least for me, anywhere in living in England. I never saw these Ingen vehicles. The Hummer and the RV and stuff like that when I was a kid didn't exist in the UK or very, very rarely. I don't remember seeing them at all on the shelves. But then again, I was a kid, so maybe I wasn't looking in the right places. But finally we have, and again, this is legacy collection, so it might be hard to come by if you're outside America too. UK and Smiths will probably be the one that has it since toys over us kind of died a long time ago. But look at this. It's so like they've got the Ingen. You've got the freaking Ingen logo. You've got a spare tire put in there for extra detail. You've got this. Like if you just want it, look, this is what I love. This is why Kenner was so good. If you just want it as a vehicle, you've got it. Like look, there it is. There's your vehicle done. But let's say you want to go that extra step and you want to make it interesting. You've got like a freaking missile launcher as well. Not only with, you know, one or two, I assume three darts. I was gonna say four because one might already be in there, but yeah, it's three darts because you can see down here. Click this button down here to let go of it. The reason why I know, I feel like I know this is made by fans.  And not only that, in this exact, you know, scene when he's chasing down the dinosaurs, he pulls out his, you know, his list from Ingen and he like loses it and he points towards the para and he calls it Elvis. And would you believe they've got a little baby parasol, a little baby Elvis. And it's nice that it's not like a fully, I mean, it would be really cool if it was a fully grown one because that scene when it like, you know, they sort of surround it is so iconic, at least to fans at Lost World, maybe not in general. But it like a fully grown one would be really cool. Maybe the paint application could have been reminiscent of the Lost World, but also in the same breath, it's nice to have a different colored para because that one in Lost World, you see it all the time. And it would have been cool maybe to have had it in like the Dominion para, but we'll probably get that later. But yeah, I'm going to end it there. That's the end of this little tour review. I know I want to keep this quite short, but we're half an hour now. But if you enjoyed this video, we'll of course cover more when they come out. And we'll set up a slideshow like this one, just kind of go over it. A big thank you to Jurassic Collect, for not losing his entire Instagram and being banned off the internet sort of thing from Mattel. That's very good. And thank you for sharing this all information. You'll find his link in the description below and you keep up to date there and eventually I'll get around to making a video on it and get my sort of review. Beavers with you top picks. If you enjoyed this video, leave a like and until next time, I'll see you Qtees later. Oh, bye-bye.


Thank you for being here to see my talk. My name is Jared Hertzberg. I'm with IBM research in Yorktown Heights, New York and I want to say big thanks to the many people who are involved in this work and related work and To IBM for funding of course and for external funding that we received for part of this work. I want to talk about one particular aspect of Scaling up lattices of cubits for larger scale Multicubit quantum processors and Focusing particularly on the kind of architecture that we Have used very often in our work at IBM where we have Fixed frequency transmount qubits that we connect to one another by microwave buses and That we've used for scaling up all the way to the 50 qubit level at this point and where we're particularly employing all microwave cross resonance gate to produce ZX interaction and implement a controlled not gate and the key to this cross resonance gate has been very often discussed is That you have a control qubit target qubit and you're driving the control qubit at the target qubits frequency In order to activate the gate through the the intervening microwave bus Now the fact that you're driving the control qubit at the target qubits frequency gives you the The issue that you can run into degeneracies between the energy levels of these two qubits. All right, so you can have a Degeneracy between the 01 states of two qubits where which are nearest neighbors You could have a degeneracy between 01 and the 02 over 2 between 01 and the 1 2 of nearest neighbors You can have cases where the The frequencies of the control and target are too far apart so the ZX Interaction is too weak to run an effective gate And you also have to consider interactions between next nearest neighbors in the lattice So you could have a degeneracy between the 01s Or a degeneracy between the 01 and the 1 2 of next nearest neighbors And we also have to consider Interactions between three qubits where you can have a two photon excitation that would lead to a degeneracy between Two qubits and another one's 02 state So we we call these so-called frequency collisions or frequency crowding And I've listed here respectively seven types of these These cases that we have to avoid when we set the frequencies for our qubits in a multi-cubit lattice And we have to to define some kind of exclusion range around each one of these Collision types and we've been able to extract that approximately from some work that we've done Theoretically that that some of my colleagues at IBM have done theoretically trying to set a bound where the These frequency collisions would be the limiting case for the For the gate fidelity compared to the typical gate fidelities that were able to achieve We can set some very approximate bounds on many of these collisions So let's think about how that's going to affect The overall Functioning of a lattice right so the the in order to avoid these collisions. We want to try to set a Pattern of frequencies in the lattice that is Where where You totally avoid all those types of collisions, right? So let's say you have the square lattice familiar from surface code If you have five distinct frequencies what you've done is you've set so that no two on the same bus have the same frequency and Also nearest neighbors and next nearest neighbors are not degenerate in their frequencies and but we know that in Setting frequencies of fixed frequency qubits. There's some imprecision in setting those frequencies So we want to try to develop some model for how this will scale and we can do that by treating each of these frequencies as a median frequency with some distribution pardon me and Randomly assign the frequencies drawn from that distribution count the collisions and repeat this is sort of Monte Carlo style to see What how many collisions you're likely to have among the frequencies and then to see how likely or to have a collision-free chip? So Schematically you can think of that as distributions of frequencies that for around each of these Five frequencies and when we run a model on say this type of chip What we can find is that the likelihood of having a collision-free chip can be very Precisely stated in terms of what this precision is that you're able to set the frequencies with So if you look at this plot here You could say well if you can set the frequencies with a 50 megahertz precision in this five frequency pattern Then your 17 qubit square lattice is liable to have oh Say about a 50% chance of having fewer than eight collisions a 10% chance of having fewer than four and a point two percent chance of having Fewer than of having zero collisions So we want to try to apply this kind of statistical model to different lattice types and frequency patterns that we believe to be able to be Evading the the frequency crowding problem. So there's the five frequency pattern at a 17 qubit square lattice a 49 qubit square lattice these correspond to lattice types that could run Say a surface code type error correction at a distance three or distance five We've also begun looking at lattices of a different Connectivity a different layout you can see some work in this recent paper Here is a What we call a heavy hexagon lattice and a three frequency pattern which we we are going to look at In this model for how it it's able to evade the frequency crowding and Here is a what we call a heavy square lattice again with a four frequency pattern that should be able to Be resistant to the frequency crowding issue So when we take all of these different kinds of lattices we run them in that Monte Carlo model and we're going to look for how many Collisions does each type of lattice Develop on average for putting these Three frequency pattern for frequency pattern or five frequency pattern for these different types of for these different types of lattices and what you do see is that the square lattice for the same Size of lattice effective same distance of lattice You're always seem to be having more collisions at any scale and then followed by the heavy square and then the heavy hexagon So Let's look at the what we call the yield That is a fraction of cases in the statistical model that will have be collision-free and that looks like Me like This okay And So What we see is that if we're looking for say a distance five lattice where we can We can operate Without collisions putting these These five frequency or three frequency or four frequency pattern in to evade the collisions We have to be able to achieve Precisions of Setting the qubit frequency in these patterns that that you can read off of this plot here So let's say we were we were going to aim to have 10% of our chips be collision-free and In that case you would need to have You really want to be working with one of the heavy hexagon or heavy square lattices and be able to achieve a Frequency precision of 10 to 20 megahertz So let's say let's get a sense of how What we can do practically to achieve these precisions and how are we doing? Here's a test bed chip where we have 36 qubits that we can look at Frequency statistics on a fairly large scale and Here we know that the frequencies are going to be correlated to the junction resistances of the of the The fixed frequency transmons the tunnel junction resistances and so here's a here's The set of tunnel junction resistances that we measured on this chip And we cool that chip in the fridge and we have a distribution of frequencies Now we're going to try to do is use some techniques that have been discussed the Fair amount in the literature of trying to say selectively anneal the the tunnel junctions with a focused laser beam in order to to Set the frequencies precisely what we're going to try to do for a For a test here is to make a two-frequency pattern For an initial evaluation of this kind of technique and so we do that and We set resistances on this chip and we've made it we've certainly made two distributions of resistances and we can see that they're the spread in each resistance is about about 50 ohms Now if we take this chip and we cool it down in the fridge and we measure the qubit frequencies We see that we do indeed have Two target qubit frequencies and the spread off of those two targets is About 12 ohms a sigma of about a rather 12 megahertz a sigma of about 12 megahertz Off of these two target frequencies So we see this as pretty good progress towards meeting the goals that were laid out In terms of this statistical model for how do you evade the frequency collision problem? So let me summarize we Recognize and we're working hard to quantify the frequency crowding problem in collisions of in in lattices of Q of fixed frequency qubits Where We're trying to avoid frequency crowding in order to to maintain gate fidelity We can use a statistical model to show that the precision of setting the qubit frequencies is really the key parameter In order to be able to predict how well you're evading the frequency crowding We're able to demonstrate statistically that these alternate heavy hexagon type lattices with a three frequency pattern are Much superior to a square lattice in evading the frequency crowding problem But we need a a good precision of setting the qubit frequencies in order to make use of that and we started to try a technique of selective anneal of the junctions in the trans mods in order to achieve Desired qubit frequencies and I'll say thank you very much


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Well, folks, I think we'll get ourselves under way. Welcome to Eden's second webinar in our series Celebrating Open Education Week. We have another webinar later in the day for those of you who have enough time and energy to take in two in the one day. We're really delighted that you could join us. I'm looking forward to introducing you shortly to today's panel and hosting hopefully a lively discussion on finding open education nuggets. My name is Mark Brown. I'm Treasurer of Eden, but I also serve as the Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University. Before I introduce my colleagues and the specific focus of today's discussion, this is just a reminder to you to post your questions and comments or even any links in the chat box. It's also helpful, though, if you're going to pose quite specific questions that you use the Q&A feature for that that just helps us to manage the questions and also to respond to them. Some of the panelists may be able to do that whilst others are talking. We're endeavour to certainly try to respond and take as many of your questions as possible during the next 45 minutes, 50 minutes or so.  You might like to start also by just letting us know where you're from in the chat box, if you like, and where you're joining us from today would be interesting. Without, I think, any further ado, it's my great pleasure to introduce Ines Vim and Merade, our panelists. Instead of embarrassing them by reading out their formal bios, they're actually on the website anyway, I'd rather hand over the mic as quickly as possible and give them the opportunity to briefly tell us a little about their background themselves. And I suppose, since I have some slides here for today's session, we might as well start in the order from starting with Ines. I'm going to hand over and ask you just to briefly give us a little intro. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Hello, everybody. I'm very happy to join you this morning. I am Ines Gilhaurena, and I am here as editor of Openpraxis, which is an open access journal published by the International Council since 2012, so more than eight years now. And I'm also an associate professor at the Faculty of Education at the Spanish National Distance Education University, UNEF, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. And in relation to Eden, I have been collaborating with Eden for some years and I am currently, I am a member of the Eden App Steering Committee. I think that's enough, Mark. Thank you very much and apologies for a little bit of distraction going on there in the background. Bim, do you want to give us a little introduction? Yeah, thank you, Mark. Yeah, my name is Bim Falpeitagham. I work at the University of Leuven in Belgium. I've been a member of the Eden community since the mid 90s, I think. And I'm here today as the chief editor of the EuroDL, the Journal of Eden. I have to say that I'm a recently appointed editor-in-chief and I step in the footsteps of Uli Bernard and Alan Tate, who were the previous chief editors. I think that's enough for as an introduction. Thank you for your map, Shane. My colleague, Meride. Hi, I'm Mark. Good to be here this morning. I'm delighted to be here. I'm here on behalf of the International Journal of Educational Technology and Higher Education. I'm an associate professor in Dublin City University. I lecture in IT. I'm also the head of the IDEA's lab at the National Institute of Digital Learning. I suppose another thing that I stress is that I also are a viewer for quite a number of other journals. And I think that's an important point that I wanted to put across today, is that I review for quite a number of journals across our field. And I think that's an important thing we'll talk about later on in the session. Well, thank you very much, all three panellists. I'm looking forward to hearing your gems and words of wisdom around your roles as editor-in-chief to use the correct terminology. I also skillfully managed to get around the difficulty of having to accurately pronounce correctly all of your surnames as well. So thanks for that. For those who are just joining us, or those who have already joined us, we've sort of got five things we'd like to achieve in the next period. We want to give you a sense of just how rich the open literature is since we're here to celebrate Open Learning and Open Education Week. We also want to give a little bit of a spotlight to the three journals in particular. All three journals have a strong European flavour. They have European editors-in-chief and are great sources of information and reading. So hopefully we'll give you a really good sense of the three journals. We also want to, on a more sort of personal note, share some of our own golden nuggets or good nuggets in terms of what we read. I'm going to sort of shift out a moderator role on a couple of occasions just to share some of the literature that we've identified last year, but I'll be also inviting the editors-in-chief to share their own picks. And then from an editor's perspective, perhaps even wearing two hats, we're going to hear a little bit about what it makes to have a really good article. Two perspectives, one as the editor, but I guess also we're all readers. We always look at the titles and maybe get as far as the abstracts. What is it that makes a good article? And the last part is really sharing our experience because there is such a wealth of literature. How do you navigate through that literature to identify those golden nuggets or open nuggets? What strategy should you use? And so we'll, towards the end, talk about some of the experiences. So I said there's a wealth of literature in the area. A publication from 2016 in AJET, the Australasian Journal of Education Technology, identified over 270 open access journals in the field. And there are more. And that's a bias towards English-speaking journals, I should also emphasise. So there is a wealth of literature. Apologies for a little bit of self-promotion here, but our own National Institute does keep a pretty comprehensive list of these journals if you're not familiar with them all. They're not all there, but that's for a reason. We try to curate the ones that we think would be best reading. Before I turn to the panel, I'm going to just give you the opportunity in the chat box to, as we're talking over the next five or 10 minutes, to let us know what's your number one top source of good reading. What do you turn to to keep yourself up to date? So that's a question for our participants today. And if you want to publish a link at any point to your top read from last 2020, or at least even for the start of this year, then I encourage you to do that as well. You might want to explain the reason behind your selection. But at this point, what I'd like to do is now hand over to our editors to tell us a little bit about the scope of their journal, the type of publications it seeks and it publishes, its history, anything you would like to share with our participants just to let them know a little bit more about the publication. And there may be some people who are new to your publication. So I'm going to start with the same order. I'm sorry, it's a bit boring, but it just seems to make sense on this occasion. So, Ines. Yes, thank you. Sorry, I lost a bit of the connection, but just briefly about open praxis. Open praxis is focused on any research or innovation in open distance and e-learning, and mainly in higher education. We have published some papers related to other educational levels, but our focus is mainly in higher education. So we share the focus with many other general journals about distance education and e-learning. And our main type of papers are research-based. We also have innovative practice papers, which are really interesting, but most of the papers we receive are research diverse. The topics are very diverse. We have been covering a lot of issues in this field. In the first years, we published some specific dedicated issues about student support services, about assessment, about the concept of openness. But more recently, we have open issues, so we receive a very diverse type of paper with different topics. And one special characteristic we have is that we have partnered for some years with the Open Education Global Conference before it was the Open Education Consortium Conference. So we have a lot of papers related to, for instance, open educational resources, open educational practices, and this sort of a of papers. And specifically related to the conference, but for our open issues as well. So this would be the overview. Well, thank you very much, and apologies, folks, if you're getting a little bit of broadband disruption. I know that Merade is struggling at the moment from her location. Of course, Open Practice is the journal of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, ICDE. And you can subscribe to get a journal alert. A lot of people perhaps are unaware of that you can subscribe and get alerts when publications come out. And maybe I'm sharing one of the tips at the end of how you navigate the literature and keep on top of things. Tim, do you want to tell us a little bit the journal that you're now editor-in-chief of and perhaps this, in your cases, is as much about your plans for the future as well? Okay, thank you, Mark. Yes, the journal I'm representing here is EuroDL, the European Journal of Open Distance and eLearning. Let's say the home journal of Eden. Yeah, the journal itself is open for all kinds of research topics. And we are especially looking at papers that are dealing with open and distance learning in rather traditional contexts, but also in more advanced, more innovative contexts. So we are also looking at new technologies, new learning approaches, new concepts. We are of course also looking at things related to quality, quality issues, accreditation or not, badges, open badges, these kinds of things. And we are also looking at more general topics, especially also focusing on the European context and addressing the issue of cultural aspects related to open distance and eLearning. I think that this is a very important aspect of the journal. We also ask, for instance, to provide your abstract in a common language, which is English of course, but also in a second European language, well, European language, in a second language to just illustrate the point of these cultural differences. So that is a very particular aspect of our journal. Mark asked me to talk about the plans. Well, there is the issue of improvement of the quality of the journal. Although we are already having a history since 1995, we still believe that we could improve the quality of the journal. Quality also of the process in which you can submit and we can review the papers. Quality in dissemination about what has been published in the journal. So that is certainly something that we would like to work on. We would also like to work more on special issues or maybe special tracks in the journal as we now move to open publication format. You can publish your paper continuously during the year. So, but maybe we now have to also think about some special topics that we could raise and try to attract papers on these topics. And then there is some other issues that maybe I can tell later when we are answering the other questions that you have in mind, Mark. Well, thank you very much, Firm. And I can say for my Irish colleagues, that's not just Maread because I know from the participant list we do have some Irish colleagues here that we have published an article that has an Irish translation to meet the criteria of other European languages. I should also just call out a note in the chat from Leo, the Journal of Research and Learning Technology published by OLD. There wasn't really space to have more panellists today, but I'd be remiss if I didn't call that particular journal out as an open access publication because I know both Maread and myself serve on that editorial board. So, Maread, that's a handover to you now to tell us a little bit about the journal that you're co-editor and chief of. And Grant, thanks, Mark. And let's pause before I start it I should also say, as I'm co-editor and chief with Joseph Duarte and Irina Ballas-Sensei and Alvario Galvez, so we work together as a great team looking at what comes in from us. And I suppose one of the distinctive features of the International Journal of Education and Technology and Higher Education, I suppose, is the international focus of us. We recently published some of the infographics of some of what we had done in the previous year and I think from that it's really clear to see the international flavour and the breadth, you know. So, I know that the focus of pretend that some of the journals here today could be particularly in Europe, but I like the way this journal has a really abroad international remit and we're publishing, and we are publishing authors from across the world and I think that's really, really good. As at the other journals, we are quite focused on digital learning and technology enhanced learning and higher education. We're looking at the theoretical application. We're looking at theoretical considerations and concepts. We're looking at applied practice. We're looking at innovation. We're looking at all of those things. I think, you know, Vim said there, one of the really interesting pieces and we'll potentially talk about this later, is looking beyond sort of the single application of a specific technology, but looking at more of the situated context and nuances on cultural practice of technology and enhanced learning and things like that. So, I think that really has, that really comes to the fore within the journal and going back to that infographic thing, I think one of the things that we really appreciate and we're trying to look at is that, you know, you'll see that we're trying to focus on in the journal is it being as representative and as diverse as possible, whether that's from, you know, a geographical diversity, but also from gender diversity and also from different practices and also with respect to looking at different topics in the area. And one of the key things that I think as a co-editorial board have brought us together is that we're looking at the development of a number of special issues in kiki areas. You know, for instance, we're going to have a special issue and we have a special issue called out for micro-quadentials and a little bit of self-public promotion here, as Mark would say, but we'd be grateful for those across the world who are interested in this topic and are working in this area to that. But we have other ones going and I just comes back also to something that Finn said, you know, the notion of being able to publish in a variety of languages and focusing. So we will have a special issue which will be regionally focused and my co-editorial chief Alvarro will look after that. So we're trying to do things to innovate even within the publishing sphere. We're also trying to innovate in different areas with regards to, you know, from our, you'll see from our stats if you look at them from and the infographic which is on our website, our Springer website is that we have a huge number, we will have, you know, we receive a huge number of submissions but we also have to reject quite a number and even before they get to the review process. So I think we're trying to work with authors and we're trying to put in place mechanisms to help the standard that comes into us to be that to be risen and we might have, we'll be announcing and hopefully have a few more things come out to help authors get by and to proceed along the publishing journey but I think that's enough said for myself and we can move on Mark. Well, thank you all three and I would also be in trouble with my Irish colleagues if I didn't acknowledge Tom Filey's link there to the Irish Journal of Technology and Homes Learning. I'll scroll up the chat and see if I've missed anyone else out but if there are publications that you go to, please do post them and share them with others. What I think we heard there was the wealth and the depth and breadth as well of the publications and I can speak and I'm just now sort of moving out a moderator role for a moment. I can speak with some confidence about just how much literature there is because our team for the last five years now at the end of each year or if we do this throughout the year but it comes to a head at the end of the year we identify what we call our 10 top reads. We do publish the criteria of what we mean by top reads. We're not making any claims when we do this to say they're the best. You can decide that for yourself but in the criteria we use since Maread mentioned it diversity is one of the features and I just thought I'd take couple of minutes to share with you some observations from our top 10 reads from last year. Actually we ended up doing two lists two lists of top 10 because we did a special COVID-19 issue selection. We felt that there was enough literature that had come through that it warranted a special list. So interestingly joint authorship is the norm. It's in the publications that we've looked at and when I say we've looked at we probably went through 500 different journal articles to refine it down to 100 to get it down to eventually 10. It's a pretty complex process. Unfortunately in some respects couldn't find enough that fit it into the European links or publications this year but on the other hand part of what we also in our selection of good reads we'd quite deliberately look for articles that people may not find in the mainstream. So just because the article doesn't come from one of the journals that we're talking about today doesn't mean it's not a good read but we're deliberately trying to get people to look elsewhere and constantly looking for Latin America places of course the English bias becomes quite a challenge. The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology for the first time after four years was not in the top place. So that wasn't by design necessarily but it certainly has taken that ranking over the previous periods and there were four new journals in the list in our top 10 this year. We'll put a link in the chat box if you aren't able to find it to the link to the list and but in part those four new journals were again by design because part of our criteria as I see was trying to look for things elsewhere out of the mainstream. Just to give you a sense this was the top article that we identified. It may not resonate with all but it resonated with us in particular because it mentioned are really about the importance of there being a much stronger nexus between research and teaching. It's no good for the research community to sit isolated and just publish and make comments on what's going on research needs that actually have impact on practice and of course practice back again on research. I won't spend time sharing and talking about the others but the list on our website does create and explain the selections for each of them. So for those of you who haven't come across this it may be useful to be aware of. Just a couple from the list that I said that we had selected for our top 10 COVID-19 reads we didn't list these in any kind of rank order because we felt that would be quite inappropriate very hard to make such a judgment but again if you haven't come across this we invite you to have a look at the list of articles that were selected and I note already this year several special issues have come out with more reflections on our COVID experience. So apologies for that kind of interruption and moderator role to being a little bit of a presenter there for a minute but I want to return to our editors and chief and put them on the spot a little bit now and ask what was your top read last year and why is there something and I'm not referring here to the ones that we've identified is there something from your own journal that really stood out for you or something that you think people should look at whether it's your top read but something that you think people should read for whatever reason.  It might be something you still have to read but it's there sitting to read. I actually have two and it's actually one of the ones that didn't make one of the top 10 for ours and I would even though I lobbied and canvasted for it but it was one of the ones I think this is this article for me really well it's in an area that I'm quite interested in anyway but also I think from structurally and from how it's presented and also how and how it's and how it's sort of formulated is really really interesting for those who want to sort of are interested in about submitting journals and learning how what's a great example of one. So that one this one is negotiating growth of online education in higher education. Neil Morris was the principal author but there was other authors there as well Marae Ivanskva Taran Koop Radamoglachy and Bronwyn Swinerton and it was published in our journal actually and last year I didn't particularly I didn't focus on it in particular particularly because they came from our journal but actually for me it was the structure of it is just a really really well done it's really well it's a simple question the way that they have approached the study and the design of it they don't make exaggerated you know they don't make exaggerated sort of claims within it they position their research really really well the literature review is so so strong you know it's on point it's not it's a type of literature review that you read it easily if you know what I mean and you're reading it and it's informative it's flows it's you know and it gets you to question your own sort of principle so I think your own sort of standpoint so I really enjoyed it from that perspective the study is really a simple simple design you know it's an engagement with top strategic leaders and in a number of institutions a small number of institutions and I think that's an important point because sometimes you know a lot of authors believe that they have to have huge numbers involved if they're going to publish research on but actually it's a small number the design of it is really really simple but it's presented really really well and presented really really well I really enjoyed this article in particular because I've just it was engaging it's finding very relevant and it was also positioned so so well within the literature and it brought the literature forward and it was clear from me from the outset how they were adding to the literature in this area and this is the area of you know the bundling of higher education and the market forces that are influencing how the strategic positioning of universities etc so this one to me was a winner and definitely it didn't appear in our top 10 for the NIDL but absolutely one of those ones that it was just so easy to read get engaged with and critique and it was one that I've gone back to and reread a few times and taken thoughts from it and critique and that's always for me is a sort of a sign of a good journal when you go back to it and you think about something that the authors have said and it's easy to reflect on so yeah that would be my favourite one of last year Mark All right you said you had two but if you do want a second one come back in after the others I did want to hug the floor so I let the others come in but I do have a second one which I'm a bit of an advocate for but I let the other editors go and then I might come back in at the end Mark and if it's possible to share the link in the chat box do any of the articles that would be great we can follow up once we get into sort of the Q&A folks if you're waiting for some of those links so Vim you're in the middle still so handing over to you thank you Mark yeah when I was reading the question what was your top read from 2020 it's difficult to just mention one article and I've chosen a book if you don't mind an open access book I've put already the link in the chat it's a book yeah of course in this specific year of Covid-19 there is many more publications about the pandemic and how higher education reacts but this one is particular for me it's describing the situation in South Africa it also illustrates my interest in development corporation and in working together with colleagues in different continents especially also in Africa and Latin America and yeah the book is written by colleagues I know very well in Stelibosch I know that Stelibosch wants to profile itself as a research-based university and so they invited different people from their own university but also a bit larger community to reflect on the changes the rapid changes that had to be implemented very quickly in different universities and especially in a country like South Africa you can imagine that this had a lot of impact on what happened in higher education so it's rather a bundling of different reflections I know in South Africa these reflections are also very much based on action research in the universities and so that's also part of the let's say the common ground that you can find in reading these articles in the book so I think that I already started reading the book Mark you mentioned that you could also mention something that you still have to read well I could only read part of the book yet but it gives a lot of inspiration and it gives a warm feeling let's say when you're reading the stories and the way that people in a country like South Africa have dealt with the pandemic there so that's my top read I was hoping to go away from today with at least one or two extra articles to read but you've given us a book so it's a bit more time required Ines, do you have a particular pick that stands out for you whether it be from your own journal or somewhere else? Yeah, well I in fact I'm going to talk about all the practice because I misunderstood the question and I didn't think about my personal top readings but the most read papers in open practices from last year so we had more than 30 papers published and the I have the top three most visited ones and I tried to guess why people like those papers or visited those papers and it makes sense to me I will tell you the titles One is about the e-learning readiness as a predictor of academic achievement in higher education and this was published before the pandemic but I think currently it makes a lot of sense that people are interested in learning about e-learning readiness and self-regulated learning self-directed learning motivation and these type of issues because the e-learning has become so mainstream or blended learning or online learning due to the pandemic that I think it makes sense that this isn't one of the top reads Second one is an evaluation of the on- in the list you made in Ireland not in the top 10 but also as a recommended reading and of course it's a very hot topic proctoring and online assessments so this is one our second most visited paper last year and the third one is about student satisfaction in online learning during the pandemic and I think this is also another very relevant issue it's about students' perception of how they are living the pandemic and the transition to e-learning all the wellness and support the student support services aspect so these are the top three in open practice and thinking about me it's hard to say one reference but I just would like to mention that because I'm also with literature that is not published in English but of course in this forum an international forum publications in English are on top but there are also other quite relevant publications in Spanish particularly that I also like to read and I strongly recommend your list this year list and previous year list it's very interesting to to check that at the end of the year and then have a look to all your selection so thank you well thanks for also alerting us to what will come up towards the end of the conversation strategies for how you manage your choices and what it is you choose to read and not to read by identifying the articles out of the top downloads that's certainly one of the strategies that I use when I'm looking to see in a journal what is it that I should be noting not always a good predictor and I wonder the readiness article may have been particularly timely because the European Commission had a funding round that had a focus on readiness so that may have added another dimension I'm going to come to a question in a minute that we have in the chat in the Q&A from Tom because it's relevant to our next sort of series of questions to our editors what it is that makes a good journal article and what Tom asks is kind of related in that we said at the outset we're serving two purposes as both editors here but also as scholars and readers and practitioners ourselves so you can answer that a question that's there particularly the first one in both of those modes if you like but Tom also goes and asks what is it that gets an article past the first Hort Hurdle so I think what he's referring to there is a submission what does a submission need to have in it to get past the first Hurdle to even be understood or thought of as potentially a good article so there's a couple of questions thrown in the mix there who would like to go first I don't feel the need to single anyone out so jump in if you have a comment I'm happy to give a comment just to keep the conversation so I think one of the things that is really really important is a clear alignment with the journal's objectives sometimes it's really clear it's really clear when that happens and as I said before it's an easy read you know immediately sometimes you feel that there hasn't been enough consideration of the focus of the journal so that when the article was written it was written in a vortex and potentially that the author or author hadn't sort of aligned their article with what the journal is about because at the end of the day independent of whichever journal you're coming from and that we represent on others we have particular focus and it's important that it is aligned the other thing is is that the abstract or the initial elements of the paper that is submitted really position what the paper is about and you know sometimes you can go through a whole paper and not really really understand what the authors were trying to achieve and that so again it's really having a clear proposition on the research question that might seem superbly basic but actually it's critical it's central I think from my perspective anyway I don't know what the other editors might think Mark can I continue that I think what you just said is also very important I think from my point of view what I usually find important is the story that is told in the paper and that starts with the title the title should be attractive attract your attention as a reader and of course the title should also cover then the contents of the paper but the title is the first thing that you see when a paper is submitted or when you see a paper published so the title should spark your interest let's say interest as a reader but also as a reviewer as an editor and then you go further after the title you read the abstract and the abstract should also be very well formulated it should give you a good overview of what are you going to read in the paper so and that should like has been said it should be very well aligned with the contents of the topics and the focus of the journal but it should also add something extra something that you haven't seen before let's say so that should also made clear in the abstract what is the why should the reader read your paper and I think that this is important for me the title the abstract and then of course you continue the story that is told in the paper should be well structured should be organized in a proper scientific way and you should sort of immediately see from the layout of the paper that the person that the authors that they yeah that they know what they are talking about that they know to sell their subject their paper and yeah a good structure helps a good yeah a few pictures maybe some some graphics the statistics the tables the the yeah the layout should also be sort of appealing to the reader and the reviewer I think it's maybe of course the science and the research is very important the contents is maybe the most important aspect but I also think the other things are quite important a good title a good abstract a nice layout a good structure something that immediately triggers your attention and that you think yes that's a paper that I want to delve into well that's a great answer I have to say I love your metaphor of storytelling as well and some of the sort of criteria if you like you list there and it's not just similar to what we look at in the NIDL annual list something that just stands out and I just personally couldn't emphasize enough that title you have to be careful you don't get too clever I've had that challenge myself but Ines do you have any words of wisdom that you can share with our participants yeah thank you Mark I well I agree of course with my my colleagues about the general characteristics of a paper to be accepted and for the question in the in the chat about why some papers get rejected before the peer review I think that was the question on my experience it's because they are out of topic so as my Mayric said they don't adhere to the journal scope and focus and sometimes you get submissions totally out of topic from chemistry or pharmacology so totally what's this it doesn't unusual but it happens sometimes but also here it's different it depends on the size of the journal and I think EuroDL and open practices are more or less similar size so we get similar number of submissions per year less than 100 so we don't need it to be so selective as other journals that get 1000 submissions so in that case in those cases they can reject the paper only because it doesn't adhere to the APA style for references despite the content in our case we could be or in open practices I mean I can be more not so demanded at that first stage about the references but it has to be mended by the by the end if it gets accepted but some gaps that are some common in the papers that get rejected not a clear enough about the objectives or the methodology it's not clearly explained or there is not any theoretical or conceptual background section so these are very relevant gaps that can make a paper not be sent to peer review and also about format I strongly recommend the authors to check the journal guidelines for instance we sometimes get papers which are four times longer than we recommend so really long long papers so we can we have to say okay the topic is interesting but you need to adhere to the guidelines and shorten the paper so or the opposite very short papers for five pages which are not enough so maybe they look that they come from conferences and they have not been developed enough to for to peer review and can get accepted and good articles as you said in your question I can I well adding to what being my previous my colleagues said previously I think in especially international journals it's very important to explain to give some contextual information or local information because there are different ways of naming the institution the degrees the courses the gradings and this needs an explanation so the authors have to be aware that the readers may be from anywhere in the world not local so some contextual information about acronyms or specific characteristics of the context I think that's very important and the a clear structure of the paper I think people can really understand the arguments follow the paper so I think those are some key aspects once again some excellent advice there I note there was a question in the Q&A that Marade answered from someone about how you formulate a good title is it a question or a statement there could also be a metaphor of some kind but mindful of my previous observation about being careful not to be too clever I recently with a couple of colleagues presented a paper on Fufu the Snoo I'll leave you to look up my bio page to see what that was about moving on and we've sort of covered some of these questions already so I don't think we want to go over old ground and in the intros to your journals you also indicated interests and special issues in the like so I'm just wondering wearing your editor-in-chief's role what is it that you would really like to publish this year and I guess COVID is going to be part of that but at the same time there's lots of health still going on and beyond COVID so I'm going to hand over again to whoever wants to come in first with these sort of questions here and in particular you know where you see gaps and what it is you would invite a publication on Can I start Mark? Yes go for it and I would not give the evident answer related to COVID I think what I'm thinking more and more nowadays is that and it's about interdisciplinary research one of the things that that I find very difficult is yeah finding good papers that start from from an interdisciplinary approach it's not just bringing two disciplines together for instance engineering education is I'm an engineer but I forgot to mention that in the introduction but it's more than just bringing two disciplines into one paper how do you educate engineering students and how do you do that in an open or distance way like we are now doing in pandemic times I think it's really trying to understand let's say the different ways the different frameworks that exist in research and education in research in engineering which is yeah sometimes a totally different world and bringing that together into one paper that that is good enough for the engineers and at the same time good enough for the educators for the educational scientists that is that is a very hard hard thing to do and so if we talk about where do I see gaps in the literature or in the possibilities to publish your research I think that the whole issue of interdisciplinary research is something that I would like to to to emphasise here and how can we yeah foster people foster yeah a genuine interest in trying to understand the other sides trying to understand the other discipline and trying to convince the reviewers for instance educational scientists that an engineering approach is maybe from a totally different nature than their approach and that there is value in that and vice versa how can we try to yeah to find ways to combine these two worlds and not just two if we talk about interdisciplinary it might be even more than two disciplines working together so I would like to just to see more on that an element of sort of border crossing there the mind I hear that of course to answer that question about what makes a good article where it should be making a contribution to new knowledge and so bringing together different disciplines different areas Enes, do you have any thoughts at all? Yes I really don't want to go into content or what what gaps I see in the literature because I think well people are doing research and innovation in different fields so I would put the focus on providing or writing papers with a strong background and with a strong methodology regardless the type of methodology and that is correlation qualitative studies cases studies but the articles I would like to publish are with a strong methodology and rigorous methodology and a strong background and with a strong background I especially would like to refer to the big amount of papers that we are receiving nowadays about the impact of the COVID because I think there especially authors or researchers who come from face-to-face universities that have to move to remote learning the background or the literature review and previous research they consult sometimes is not enough so I think there if I open and this is an interpretation and Eden and ICD are two representatives of this work and this long story so I would put the stress on that and also on highlighting the what you just mentioned which is the contribution of the paper and originality or innovation and one thing I would like to well if I can to promote in open practice is the publication of innovative practice I think it's very relevant to to test different methodologies or technologies or innovation and then do a proper evaluation of that and publish it as a case study I think this is a very useful also for practitioners and it is a research but very practice-based research I think that's maybe a gap well thank you again so I'm really interesting and maybe in the paper which is strong in background and methodology and rigorous it's welcome I think and apologies and as you just cut out for a minute so I popped in thinking that you'd finished there so what I took from one of the statements is don't misinterpret storytelling for weak methodology the balance of maintaining the two it's not an easy thing at the same time is contributing new knowledge Maread do you have anything to add to the conversation? Yeah Mark just to pick up on some of the points but also I think you know gaps in the literature I think if you know there's some clear gaps obviously out there I think what Vim has highlighted is one of the things it's a bugbearer of mine in one way it's that when potentially authors will come into the field or start out in the field they will presume that it's novel a novel theory that only relates in within educational technology and they won't or digital learning and they won't have loved around potentially at those other disciplines which are on the it's was which are on the board or an intersect with our own discipline and that sometimes for me is a weakness it's a massive weakness and I think there's some lovely I think that's where we cover authors just to dig a little bit deeper and to go outside out of the discipline area and to do that notion of interdisciplinarity I think one of the things also I think that Nyez mentioned was you know this notion of really really strong research design independence the types of literature the types of sort of articles we want to are really strong research design as I said you know in my own favourite one the research design was super strong it was you know one of those things were they really called out on the strength of qualitative research they didn't try to dress it up and put it out into some other form of research to make it appear more scientific in that type of way I think that's sometimes some of the problems that we'll get and the absence of context is another issue that I would think is a really a contextualised critique you know in and around some of the studies that are presented sometimes you can find findings which are quite limited in their breadth because actually the authors haven't thought to contextualise if they haven't placed if well their study well within the literature and that's really disappointing because their study may indeed have good substance but actually it doesn't allow the reader to build it doesn't make those bridges for them and it doesn't contribute in the way that it should for the reader so I think those are the type of things that I would like to see embraced by embraced by authors but also the journals and I think some of the things that we're looking at you know instead of just and this goes to some of the COVID work is that instead of you know about the simple narratives and actually I'm quite a strong advocate of narratives as a research method is to move on from that and to think about of it the situated and the social interactive that that type of research allows to bring in that it brings into it and the richness of the methodology that can bring to the to the article as well so for me another thing I think another one is is that and this goes back to what are you looking for in an article it's sometimes it's the burning question the burning question of the researcher and that really comes true and you can see a lot of the articles that have been published across our journals and in other journals you really get the feeling that a lot of those authors are totally immersed in what they're doing and therefore it comes across quite simply in their writing Thanks Marae sorry I just needed to check my my mic was on folks we're coming to the end we haven't had a huge number of questions but I think the conversation has been very informative I'm just going to ask the panel in wrapping up in no more than a minute each just to give us perhaps one piece of advice in terms of what you might do to ensure that you're engaging that literature you're finding the literature something is a tip I shared the one previously about looking to see what ones have been downloaded on a personal note if I just start off the one thing I commit myself to do as a scholarly professional is I make sure I read one journal article every single day so then I know that I'm going to at least cover a small size of that literature without putting anyone on the spot is there anyone who wants to start off with one piece of advice one tip to wrap up go ahead Wim Wim go ahead Yeah sorry this is better it's a bit the same sort of remark as you just gave Mark and that is something that helps me as an academic scholar is reserve one day in the week for reading and writing and so especially now while we are working from home and there is almost no difference between mornings and evenings between weekdays and weekends there is so many meetings happening that you maybe tend to forget that your real work is reading and writing well real work part of your real work is reading and writing and so the only way that I could make it happen for me is that I reserved one day in the week where and I announce it it's my agenda reading and writing and that helps thank you because I think that just underscores that to engage in the literature to be a scholarly professional you do have to be reading Ines do you have anything to share just very briefly we're right on time now Yeah just briefly I well I recommend to to to read and to to look to different sources to different journals and use the library use the directory of open access journals but always choose a how to say serious serious journals and serious publications and there is a lot of literature about on e-learning so I recommend to have your eyes in different places because you can find interesting things anywhere it will depend of course of your personal interest of the topic but here also interdisciplinary that has been was mentioning you can have interesting input from journals from engineering or computer science from education social science so have a diverse diverse an open mind Excellent point and Meraine final word from you Yeah so quickly some of those things that have been said already I think read with an objective is really really important so be clear about what objectives that you have in your reading style I have generated a favourite authors list for myself they're the people that I really get something from which is also linked into you know in and around of what my peers are reading so I'll regularly ask those that I engage with and collaborate with what are you reading and I think that's important because you know you'll always find something that somebody else has happened upon and that's you know it's something that can broaden your own horizon as you say and that's the open mind part that it is I think the one of the things that we should do and I think this is important this is important not only from open standards but we should expect high standards when we read our literature and we should always have them in mind so that when we're reading we're thinking about the quality of the article the research design the findings and how they're positioned and enjoy what you're reading I suppose as well as there is the final thing I would say well thank you very much all three panelists apologies for my Eden Admin team that we are a couple of minutes over if anyone ever gets interviewed by me for a job one of the questions I sometimes ask prospective candidates or candidates for the position is what's the most interesting thing you've read in the last three months and why and you'd be surprised just how that completely stumps many professionals so on that note thank you very much I hope it's been an informative conversation you now know three editors and chief that if you want to follow up with even I'm sure you will find that if you follow up with an idea that you're working on they might even be able to tell you whether it's a suitable for the journal what we will find from past experiences if you engage with the editors actually and build a rapport they will work very constructively with you no one is there to try to block a publication they want to steer it in the right direction sometimes that's pointing you to a different publication but I'm over time so thank you very much to our panellists I need to also thank Diana for organising in particular this week and none of this would be possible without the Eden admin team so hopefully we'll see some of you back later this afternoon for the second webinar of the day but in the meantime have a good afternoon cheers bye bye everyone thank you


Climate change is happening. We're feeling the impacts today. Both floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, they're less predictable and there's a higher degree of uncertainty. So we need to take action in terms of different adaptation approaches but also looking at how can we forecast and how can we use information for better planning preparedness. The issue is flood and droughts which are becoming frequent nowadays. So this is giving us a push, a rather step forward, a leap from in addressing issues of floods and droughts. One thing that any utility needs is information and if we can have a support system that help us identify and collect information and analyze that information to allow us to make correct decisions at the right time that will be a very powerful tool that help us manage the variations of climate and therefore deal with droughts and floods as yoga. If you like to manage water you need to have information and the information should cover almost all of the things for example like the weather, rainfall, level of water, level of water in the river and also in the city and even a storm surge. We need information on hydro material conditions as well as social and environmental conditions. Stakeholders would use the tools and the decision support system mainly to get the data they have in one place to easily overview and analyze it and then to use the tool in decision making and planning to estimate impacts for drought impacts, flood impacts on specific locations in their basin on water utilities to make plans. It could be plans for operating reservoirs. It could be investment plans for building new infrastructure in the basin always taking into consideration uncertainties in the climate information. The training is about tools that can help us plan so that we can be able to predict floods and droughts. For example if we know that during drought situations it will affect the water quality we can implement certain upstream measures that would reduce the amount of pollution that would be brought into our water. For the basin like the Nile it gives a common ground, a common ground for all type of planning and management of the basin. Once you got the updated information that means it assists you for decision making. We have several agencies related to water management not only the data collectors but also the regulators. Today the drought and flood problem is across agency profile so these two will help us not only to bring together the data but also bring together the stakeholders. The decision support system tool is important because it will help and improve for the preparation preparedness. We can help the decision makers to make the right decisions affecting a lot of people.


Hello, bonjour, guten tag, dzień dobry. I'm Łukasz Jena, I work as a software engineer for Allergy Group. Since the Havana E-Leaks I'm a volunteer translator for OpenStack. I've been involved in translations since 2004, started with the Dome Project. I hope I give you some hints how to translate properly, where to start, how to update our infrastructure and what roadblocks you make in a new way. So first maybe I'll tell you why start being a translator anyway, what are the reasons, I became one, what it gave me. Then we'll talk about the tools and processes we're currently using on OpenStack, and a few stories from the trenches which I encountered over the years. So how does one end up a translator anyway? First, it's an easy point to open source, when you want to start doing open source, providing new software for people, translation is an easy way to get involved. Because if you can read English, you probably can translate it into your own language. Also, these days it's not difficult, when I started ten years ago, I had to know specialized tools, be accustomed with version control, know some magic variables. And yeah, do a lot of unnecessary stuff. These days you just go to a web page, click translate and you're done. Ok, you actually don't have to know any programming language to develop in some way software. Of course there are some variables you have to take care of, but it's nothing special, nothing that requires any specific knowledge of programming. And translating software is a good way to help others in your county. It's also a good way to have a higher user base, because not everyone has to know English to use your software. Of course IT professionals usually do know some English, but we have to work with our users and we shouldn't expect them to know it. Ok, also it's a good way to improve your own language skills. When translating software you have to accustomed yourself with many dictionaries, teasers and glossaries. For me, my key translation provided me with a better vocabulary. Now I tend to build better sentences in my own language. Of course this has a minor downside, in that I pay the WAs for my text messages. And you should be proud of your own native language. Diversity in open source is a good thing. Diversity makes open source software different from the commercial one, which is usually developed in a specific culture i sometimes hard to translate into another part of the world. Ok, maybe let's go to the tools and processes we employing in OpenStack. First and foremost, the community. The most important piece is one thing that made me do translations in the first place, because in some communities we tend to have annual parties and pretty much we are becoming fans of the time. One place to contact us is the OpenStack i89 mailing list. It's low traffic for now, so if you have any questions, if you want to know more about translating, please go and ask. Other means is the OpenStack translation IAC channel on the Finnault network. We are there, of course sometimes we can respond in five minutes, but someone eventually will respond to you. Ok, our primary workhorse now is the Transifx platform, where most of us do the actual translation. Ok, after logging in you should find the OpenStack organization and you will get to a similar screen where you can select your project. For example, we focus mostly on the horizon project, which is the OpenStack dashboard.  Ok, that's your main UI for working with Transifx and translations. It's separated into three groups. On the left you find Stinguist, which contains the entire list of Stings in a given project, together with the translations. In the middle you have the actual workplace, where on the upper side you find the English Sting, in the middle you find the edit box to translate it and below some contextual information about the location of this Sting, in what file is it and any information that developers could add to it. On the right you find some useful tabs, which I'll describe later, exactly now. An important tab is the suggestions box, which contains suggestions based on previously translated Stings, and the amount given Stings matches to the current one. That's the history, which the name implies, it's the history of the item, and one useful thing is the grocery, where you find description definitions and simple translations for a given Sting and of course the comments. Another set of tools used by our team is the tier of Jenkins, Zule and Gate. Any of you know what these are? Okay, so Jenkins is a built system, it does the actual work. Gate is a system where developers review the code, they comment on it and which then triggers Zule to do some jobs. The process is as follows when a developer measures a patch to a project, a post-commit job is run by Zule, which accelerates the translatable Stings and then they push the trans effects, and then the developer translates it and every day another job is done, which pulls down the Stings from trans effects and proposes as a patch for a gate for the developers to approve. They don't check the actual content of the file or the translation only that it doesn't break the build and at the end the process repeats itself over and over again. Okay, maybe go to the promised dragons. The face hippie dragons comes from old maps where places that were either unknown or dangerous were marked by a face hippie dragons to warn other sailors to not venture into this area. Some people tend to think that translation work is easy, but there are a few situations where it can be really hard and really tough to do properly. For example, there was a story about the column back, so when I was translating the ice house illies, I've noticed that there are many Stings that seem to be duplicated, which are different only in the ending. For example, you have image details, image details column space and image details column. So I propose that we just get rid of the tearing spaces, tearing columns so that a translator would end up with only one Stings to translate. In that case, when we had three Stings, every Stings could be translated differently because they appear in different places in the tens-effects UI. Some of them are at the beginning of the list, some are in the middle, some are at the end. In that case, these Stings were meaning the same, but one of these Stings was the page tutor, the second one was a header, and the third one was in a message. Ok, but then can I e-mail to the mailing list by Douglas Fitch, a Fitch which said, while I understand the need for consistency, I just got the request for a French translator to do the opposite implementation. The translator of French shared with me that the punctuation as part of the translator in material makes it much easier to create a correct translation. In French, a column is expected between the final word and the final punctuation, including a column. So I said, oops, the whole part which is already prepared had to be averted. In the end, there was some discussion on the mailing list, and in the end we decided to keep the column but get rid of any spaces at the end of the sentences because we couldn't find any possible language where this was needed. And another case which you have to look at is stinking concatenation. It's a common thing for developers to do something like that. My name is Placel Wajorbel and Kowalski. Unfortunately, for a tense letter, this will be two stings without any context because the variable will be lost and wouldn't appear anyway in the translation system. So a better form would be my name is Percent S. Kowalski which would end up in the translation system as a single sting and also give us information inside that is another sting. But the best version is my name is first name Kowalski which tells the translator that there's a variable called first name which gives us context. So it usually won't appear another Kowalski but probably it will be John, or Alice or something. And it's way better to translate and won't end up in any errors. At least it shouldn't. Okay, another issue we have translating software from English to another language is plural forms. English is easy. It's either singular or plural. But for example in Polish we have at least three plural forms. Some languages are even more complicated. So let's see for example, there's one file, 2399 files. One file is one plik. 24 pliki, 21 plików. Then 22-24 pliki again. And then plików again. So... Sorry? 32 pliki again. Yeah. And zero is plików. Okay. So the usual convention where the developer does that if a variable count is for example more than one then do another thing. That doesn't work. Fortunately there's something like ngettext which when we pass a variable to it forces to appear in transifx in the proper way. So we can select the one form, the few forms and the other forms. And it allows us for a good translation. Unfortunately for Polish we can do a proper translation because we are missing the number of instances here. So we, but at least without the number we can do a more proper translation that just copies that one over here. Usually there should be a number. And the most complicated thing is declension. For example the nouns which have in different forms. Let's look at the sample string where we have viewing something. The variable substituted by map, by instance, by whatever. So the translator would end up with two strings. One would be viewing types and the other would be map which means a singular form is mapa. Unfortunately there is nothing similar which is wrong in Polish and in many other languages also. Because mapa declenses like that. There is who word mapa, who's word map, mapie, mapu, mapie i mapo. But in that in that very sentence we would have to use the genitive form. So the sentence would end up with wyszutlanie mapy, viewing map. So the previous sensation that which didn't have the context would be wrong. Totally, actually. It's even hard to read in Polish. So it's better to not substitute the variable as a variable content as a variable but match it somewhere else in the whole sentence. Ok. And the last thing I said yesterday is a warning for designers. Don't use fonts that contain only ASCII characters because you'll end up with that. Something's missing. Ok. Of course, translators are always welcome. The few of us would like it to be more, especially for Polish single single co-ordinator translator and whatever you can find. The best way is to go to our wiki. There's a modulated procedure about how everything works. Of course there's the mailing list. You can chat with us and find a link to the project that is the most so open start dashboard. No, thanks for those who stayed and also thanks for for allowing me to be here and if you have any questions. Can you please go up to the mic? Yeah. I've tried to create translations before but not for open stack and I'm just curious how you came to do it and specifically when you very first started doing it what were some of maybe simple but big issues you ran into at the very beginning? The issues I ran were that my desktop environment wasn't fully translated and that's why I started doing the translations actually and I had to learn in GNOME we use SVN to translate the projects. We had a separate team which we pulled the translations from the GNOME repository and then merged them back and really the hardest thing was getting the developer to merge that patch with the updated translation. The hardest thing was to get the developer to merge the updated translation into the baby intergnome. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Okay. Thanks.