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JISC Strategy for Support of eResearch

JISC Strategy for Support of eResearch. Nicole Harris JISC Programme Manager. JISC. Supports further and higher education (post-16) in use of ICT. Guidance, advice and development. Communities: teaching, learning, research and administration within UK institutions.

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JISC Strategy for Support of eResearch

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  1. JISC Strategy for Support of eResearch Nicole Harris JISC Programme Manager

  2. JISC • Supports further and higher education (post-16) in use of ICT. • Guidance, advice and development. • Communities: teaching, learning, research and administration within UK institutions. • Six sub-committees, one of which dedicated to support of research.

  3. A (very) brief history of JCSR • JISC Committee for the Support of Research set up in March 2002 in response to a review of JISC. • Chaired by Tony Hey, Director of UK eScience Core Programme. • Funds a range of projects, services, studies to ‘support research’….

  4. Supporting Research? • 7 research councils (and one research board) in the UK to promote and fund research in major subject areas. • Supported by e-Science Core Programme, which is developing technical solutions to enable e-Science. • Role of JCSR is to provide support in relation to ICT to allow this research and activity to happen – both for e-Science and wider ICT needs.

  5. Supporting Research? BBSRC CCLRC JCSR eS CP AHRB EPSRC NERC PPARC MRC Royal Academy Engineering, Wellcome Trust, British Library, SURF, NeSC

  6. JISC Strategy • New JISC Strategy launched in April of this year: 2004 – 2006 with FIVE strategic aims: • To develop solutions that help enable the UK education and research communities to keep their activities world class through the innovative use of ICT. • To provide advice to institutions to enable them to make economic, efficient and legally compliant use of ICT, respecting both the individual’s and corporate rights and responsibilities. • To help the sector provide positive, personalised user learning experiences and to aid student progression. • To develop mutually advantageous partnerships with organisations in the UK and abroad. • To advise, inform and help implement the strategies of government, funding councils and research councils.

  7. Aim 1: innovative ICT solutions • Projects investigating wider potential of ‘grid’ applications (semantic grid programme). • Core Middleware Programmes (akin to AAI initiative). • Common Services Development. • Virtual Research Environments. • National Grid Service.

  8. Aim 2: Providing Advice • Videoconferencing Centre (access grid). • Text Mining Centre. • Digital Curation Centre. • Training and Awareness Programmes (eSocial Science, Arts and Humanities). • NeSC Awareness Post.

  9. Aim 3: Positive Personalised User Learning Experiences • Virtual Research Environments. • Evaluating Frameworks: SAKAI. • Cross-discipline frameworks: eLearning and Digital Libraries. • Human Factors Audit.

  10. Aim 4: Developing Partnerships • UKLight. • AHRB support post. • Joint funding with research councils, e-Science Core Programme across all work. • National and International partners in programmes.

  11. Aim 5: Advising and Informing UK Strategies. • eScience in Education: Schools Demonstrators. • Open Access: studies and developments. • EGEE Network Activity. • Informing e-Science Core Programme work.

  12. Key areas of concern • Security; • Middleware and Common Services; • Data Curation / Data Handling; • Visualisation; • Collaborative Environments; • Knowledge Management; • Human Factors / HCI; • Training and Awareness.

  13. Outside JCSR? • Network Development: JCN (SuperJANET 5). • Wireless networking: JCN. • Open Source Support: JCIIE and OMII. • Wider middleware development: next generation access management system for UK. • Wider digital preservation work.

  14. Questions?? More information: www.jisc.ac.uk/jcsr Nicole Harris: n.harris@jisc.ac.uk. 020 7848 1802.

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