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Ms. Frederique M. van Till MSc Programme manager Collaborative Research Technologies

VRE Brown Bag session. Georgetown University, 1 st October 2007. Ms. Frederique M. van Till MSc Programme manager Collaborative Research Technologies JISC e-Research. Outline. Introduction Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Virtual Research Environments programme (VRE)

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Ms. Frederique M. van Till MSc Programme manager Collaborative Research Technologies

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  1. VRE Brown Bag session Georgetown University, 1st October 2007 Ms. Frederique M. van Till MSc Programme manager Collaborative Research Technologies JISC e-Research

  2. Outline • Introduction Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Virtual Research Environments programme (VRE) • 1. VRE Past (phase 1) • Video Research Needs • Video Technical Solutions • 2. VRE Present (phase 2) • 2½. VRE Future…

  3. Introduction JISC Executive • JISC's mission is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communications Technology to support education and research JISC provides: • A world-class network - JANET • Access to electronic resources • New environments for learning, teaching and research • Guidance on institutional change • Advisory and consultancy services • Regional support for FE colleges - RSCs

  4. Introduction JISC Executive

  5. 1. VRE - The VRE Challenge • The challenge is to create an e-infrastructure routinely usable by researchers • Meeting this challenge is a task for those building the infrastructure, potential user communities themselves and the institutions to which users belong – and also for wider constituencies • It is unclear what type of framework a VRE should adopt, which technologies it could be based on, how it can be developed sustainably and how usability and take-up can be ensured • Any systems will need to be linked up to Managed Learning Environments and digital libraries from Executive Summary of “Building Collaborative eResearch Environments”

  6. 010101 010101 010101 010101 010101 010101 1. The VRE Vision e-Scientist Scientist in the field e-Resources e-Experiments

  7. 1. The VRE Funding 2004 VRE1 £3.2M 2006 e-Infrastructure £10.5M Users & Innovation £4M VRE2 £1.6M 2009 VRE 2½ ?M 2016?

  8. What happened 15 VRE projects 2004-2007 Past… 1

  9. 1. The projects of Phase 1

  10. User Geographic Span USA NZ Grenoble, France

  11. Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities • OGHAM • BVREH • Sakai education research • CHESHIRE 3 • Political Discourse • Natural Sciences • ISME • IBVRE • Cross-Domain • CSAGE • CORE • Sakai portal demonstrator • EVIE • ELVI • IUGO • GROWL • MEMETIC Domain Areas Covered

  12. 1. VRE Technical Solutions Portal ELVI EVIE Portal Demo IBVRE CORE MEMETIC ISME IUGO OGHAM Edu Research Cheshire CSAGE BVREH Political Discourse Growl Domain Specific Sakai Generic

  13. 1. Evaluation Phase 1 • eReSS consortium – http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/eress.html • Interoperability study • Tavistock institute - http://www.tavinstitute.org/ • Formative Evaluation • 2 DVD video’s – VRE’s in Practice

  14. VRE2 Approach users User Needs Analysis Community Engagement Contextual Analysis Change analysis Programme Evaluation Pilots Other Programmes & Initiatives System analysis Testing e-Research Interoperability Integration Design Building developers

  15. VRE 1 Technology-focused Experimental Diverse design & development approaches Stand-alone solutions VRE 2 User- and research practice-focused Developmental Unified design & development approaches Integrated solutions VRE 1 vs VRE 2 • Collaboration • Supporting small & large-scale research • Support for single-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research

  16. 4 VRE projects 2007-2009 Present… 2

  17. Phase 2 projects • Documents and Manuscripts VRE – Oxford University • http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM • VERA – University of Reading • http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/ • CREW – University of Manchester • http://www.crew-vre.net/ • myExperiment – University of Southampton • http://myexperiment.org/

  18. Future… 2 ½

  19. VRE 2 User- and research practice-focused Developmental Unified design & development approaches Integrated solutions VRE2½ Broadening use Cross institutional Cross domain Re-Deployment of solutions Social, Ethical and Legal issues Sustainability Whats next? VRE wide • Collaboration • Supporting small & large-scale research • Support for single-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research

  20. What’s next… Future strategic steps for VRE programme. (2007-2011) • Inventory existing VRE’s projects… (JISC, e-Science projects, British Library/Microsoft, Canada, South Africa, USA) • Make an inventory of components and framework solutions • Addressing boundary issues • Build VRE vocabulary, story capture and VRE advice • Funding projects for embedding VRE’s in institutions (phase 2½) • Looking at projects at Multiple institutions (phase 3?)

  21. Institutional embedding? Multi Institutional VRE’s? 3?

  22. Questions and discussion Frederique van TillF.vanTill@JISC.ac.uk +44 (0) 7875 33 8070 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2.aspx

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