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VRE Rapid Innovation - VRERI Kick-off and Documentation Frederique van Till – JISC Executive UK

VRE Rapid Innovation - VRERI Kick-off and Documentation Frederique van Till – JISC Executive UK. To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. Edward de Bono – Inventor of lateral thinking. Agenda.

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VRE Rapid Innovation - VRERI Kick-off and Documentation Frederique van Till – JISC Executive UK

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  1. VRE Rapid Innovation - VRERI Kick-off and Documentation Frederique van Till – JISC Executive UK To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. Edward de Bono – Inventor of lateral thinking

  2. Agenda • Overview VRE Programme • Structure and Approaches • VRE3 projects • VRERI projects • VRERI documentation • Questions

  3. Programme Overview I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period. Howard Hodgkin – contemporary painter

  4. The VRE3 Programme Structure • Virtual Research Community • (VRC) • Links & References (IE, National, International) • Programme Archive • Website/Wiki • Events & Workshops • Use cases • VRE Evaluation • VRE1. Tavistock Reports • VRE2 Impact Studies • VRE1 + 1 • Landscape Study • Impact Study • Early Career Researchers Study • VRE3 Evaluation report Critical Friends 10 VRE3 Projects Tools – Frameworks - Interoperability 14 VRERI Projects Resource Mgt – CommsnColl – Experimentation - BCE

  5. VRE Approaches Summary Issues that all phases have in common: Collaboration - Supporting small & large-scale research - Support for single- and multi-disciplinary research

  6. VRE3 Projects VRE Tools: • Video Conversion on PAG Manchester VRE Frameworks • IBBRE Southampton • Collaborative Research in Business (CRIB) Lancaster • Cancer Imaging VRE Oxford • ONE VRE Manchester • BRAIN - Building Research and Innovation Networks Coventry VRE Interoperability • LinkSphere Reading • Text VRE KCL • Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC) Southampton • Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharing Cambridge http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre/projects.aspx

  7. VRERI Projects • Ami Cambridge University • BlogMyData Reading University • CritterVRE Manchester University • Embrace Lancaster University • gMan Kings College London • MEGStream Aston University • MILARQ Oxford University • OpenImpact Southampton University • OpenPSIPearl Southampton University • PPCC York University • RDSPress Coventry University • SERPent University College London, Institute of Child Health • vizTweets City University London • WattNamesHeriot-Watt University http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

  8. Wiki & Documentation All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. V. S. Naipaul - Nobel Laureate Literature 2001

  9. Wiki & Documentation Idea: • Notebook for Programme management • Projects labelled through out with ProjectTag • Exchange between projects while doing it! Contents: • Homepage • Downloads • Wiki • Documentation & Dates

  10. Homepage - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/ Contains: • General Programme introduction • Introduction to Rapid Innovation • Starting point for Projects

  11. Downloads - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/downloads/list Contains: • List of projects and contacts • Programme Templates • Project plan • Project final budget • Project Files • Proposals • Project plans (to be uploaded by yourself)

  12. Wiki - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/w/list Contains: • TableofContents • ProjectInterviewTemplate – template for project page. • ProgrammeDocumentation • Project Pages (14x – to be updated & managed by yourself) Please remember to read and use comments!

  13. ProgrammeDocumentation - 1/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation To Do ASAP • Update Project page on Wiki • Send gmail address to ProgMgr to be added to Wiki • use ProjectInterviewTemplate if needed • Regarding ProjectBlogs: the feed has to be either ATOM or RSS2 W3C compliant (Blogger or Wordpress) • Fill out: CoreProjectResourcesForm • All data will be collected in the CoreSpreadsheet, can be corrected later To Do By 2nd week March • Complete Project plan • use template from Downloads • Upload in Downloads with ProjectTag in Title.

  14. ProgrammeDocumentation - 2/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation • Progress Posts • (I) "Project Evaluation" aka iterative reflection • (II) "User participation" aka user cases • (III) "Day-to-day work" aka tools, tips and trick that make you productive • (IV) "Technical standards" aka stuff you reuse • (V) "Value Add" aka what shifted your thinking in a new direction • (VI) "Small WIN(s") & "FAIL(s)"aka advice others could benefit from • (VII) Final Progress Post aka final prototype product advertisement DEADLINE: PROJECT END DATE AND NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 1ST • Final Project Sign-Off DEADLINE: OCTOBER 11TH 2010 BUDGETS MUST BE APPROVED BY PROGMGR SO PLEASE SUBMIT IN TIME!

  15. Rapid Questions? Frederique M. van Till F.vanTill@JISC.ac.ukTanteTill Frederique.vanTill.JISC@gmail.com http://code.google.com/p/vreri/ Pictures from art piece called "Language of the Birds,“ by Dorka Keehn and Brian Goggin, North Beach of San Francisco, USA, 2008. http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/LanguageBirds.html

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