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Joint Information Systems Committee

Joint Information Systems Committee. JISC Strategies & Support of e-Science for Research Dr Malcolm Read JISC Executive Secretary. The JISC Mission is:.

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Joint Information Systems Committee

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  1. Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Strategies & Support of e-Science for Research Dr Malcolm Read JISC Executive Secretary

  2. The JISCMission is: “to provide world class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies to support education and research”.

  3. JISC COMMITTEESTRUCTURE JISC Steering Committee (assessors) JISC* Audit Committee Nominations Committee Remuneration Committee JISC Sub-Committee Chairs* JISC Committee for Learning & Teaching (JCLT) JISC Committee for Awareness, Liaison & Training (JCALT) JISC Committee for the Support of Research (JCSR)* JISC Committee for Networking (JCN)* *Committee with RC representation JISC Committee for Information Environment (JCIE) JISC Committee for Content & Services (JCCS)*

  4. Budget

  5. Strategic Aims • To develop solutions to help the UK education and research communities use ICT innovatively to keep their activities world class. • To provide support to institutions to enable them to use ICT innovatively, economically, efficiently and legally. • To help the sector provide positive, personalised user experiences. • To develop mutually advantageous relationships within the UK and abroad to lead ICT innovation. • To advise and inform the strategies of government, funding councils and research councils and help implement them.

  6. Priorities 2004-06 • Maintain and develop a world class network and infrastructure for institutions • Provide sustainable procurement and delivery services for online content • Develop a common information and communications environment • Create MLEs from VLEs & MIS • Provide coherent, economical advice and guidance services to staff within institutions

  7. Priorities Cont • Improve information and feedback mechanism • With Becta and the Academy help embed ICT • Develop e-Research infrastructure • Help institutions manage ICT investment • Provide technology observatory • Support widening participation • Improve effectivness of JISC • Partnership role

  8. Current Status of Information Management • Applications • Content • Meta Data & Delivery tools • Finding / Access tools • Authentication E-science Digital libraries E-learning Internet

  9. How Far Can a Common Environment Go? • Applications • Content • Meta Data & Delivery tools • Finding / Access tools Digital libraries E-science E-learning Authentication etc Internet

  10. JISC has historically supported research by: • the continued provision of, and wide access to, a world leading network to support research • funding an on-line information environment providing secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly material • promoting innovation in the use of IT • providing a focus for international collaboration in the exploitation of ICT

  11. JCSR activities • JCSR is funding projects relating to authentication, authorisation and accounting • JCSR with EPSRC is funding projects relating to semantic grids and autonomic computing • JCSR with ESRC is funding projects to train social scientists in the use of new e-research approaches

  12. JCSR activities (Continued) • JCSR with CCRLC is funding National Grid Service; four computing clusters to allow researchers to work in a ‘safe’ Grid environment • JCSR with e-Science Core Programme and JCCS is funding a Digital Curation Centre to provide advice and support on the preservation and re-use of digital material • JCSR with AHRB is funding to train arts and humanities researchers in the use of innovative ICT approaches

  13. JCSR activities (continued) • JCSR with BBSRC and EPSRC is funding a UK Text Mining Centre to enable researchers to excavate richer seams of electronic material • JCSR is funding three projects to demonstrate e-science in schools to capture the imagination of young students

  14. JCSR membership • JCSR membership is drawn from the Research Councils and AHRB (one member nominated by each Council) • Learned societies • Observers from relevant organsations (eg British Library, UKOLN)

  15. UK Light HEFCE is investing £6.5 million in a UK initiative, known as ‘UKLight’, in the area of optical networking UKLight will enable the UK to participate in the next era of international network collaboration, based on a global integrated testbed. JCSR provides policy direction for UKLight, with operational support from UKERNA.

  16. Virtual Research Environment • HEFCE has allocated funding to JISC of £3.2 million to develop a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) • VRE will be a set of services to support research processes underpinned by a standards-based framework • VRE Working Group is developing proposal for JCSR approval

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