The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Ingrid Vasseur, recognising a repository deposit filed complete before the Office's automated reminder was triggered.
The prize recognises Dr Ingrid Vasseur's repository deposit, lodged complete before the Office of Research Outputs' automated reminder email ever went out
The Office of Research Outputs runs a reminder system for every deposit that misses its window: three days of silence trips an automated email, seven trips a second, and by the second reminder someone on the Office’s side has usually had to open the record themselves and see what is missing. The system exists because most quarters need it. This quarter it never fired once, on any deposit that mattered, because the record it would have chased was already complete.
The Prize goes to Dr Ingrid Vasseur, Lecturer and Convenor of Futures in Committee, for the deposit record behind her study of a community pantry’s charter-adherence survey — every field entered, every licence selected, on the day the underlying record was finalised, with nothing left for the reminder to find.
I study what happens once an agenda item stops being live and starts being business as usual. Filing my own deposit on the day it was ready, rather than the day the portal asked for it, felt like a small refusal to let that happen to my own record.
— Dr Ingrid Vasseur, Lecturer and Convenor, Futures in Committee, School of Emergent Priorities
“The reminder email is the only part of the pipeline that gets read by everyone,” said Marek Solheim, Lecturer, School of Emergent Priorities. “A quarter where it stays unsent is rarer than anyone in the Office likes to admit.”
The Office measures every quarter’s crop of deposits against the same three-day and seven-day reminder thresholds, and logs how many records clear both without a nudge. Dr Vasseur’s was the only one this quarter that the system never had cause to notice.
The Prize carries a $9,847 award and a line in the Office’s reminder log that, for one quarter, stayed exactly as empty as it is meant to.
Deposit of the Quarter Prize: For a Deposit Filed Before the Portal's Reminder Went Out · $9,847 · awarded to Ingrid Vasseur