1. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 2 Agenda Overview VRE Programme –Structure and Approaches –VRE3 projects –VRERI projects VRERI documentation Questions

3. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 4 VRE Evaluation VRE1. Tavistock Reports VRE2 Impact Studies VRE1 + 1 Landscape Study Impact Study Early Career Researchers Study VRE3 Evaluation report The VRE3 Programme Structure Virtual Research Community (VRC) Links & References (IE, National, International) Programme Archive Website/Wiki Events & Workshops Use cases 10 VRE3 Projects Tools – Frameworks - Interoperability C ritical Friends 14 VRERI Projects Resource Mgt – CommsnColl – Experimentation - BCE

5. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 5 VRE Approaches Summary VRE1VRE2VRE3 VRERI 2004-20072007-20092009-2011 2010-2010 15 projects4 pilots10 projects 14 projects Technology focusedUser- and research practice focused Broadening use, Cross institutional & discipline RI though out research lifecycle ExperimentalDevelopmental Rapid Innovation Diverse design & development approaches Unified design &development approaches, figure 8 model. Diverse design, challenge- and community- driven Diverse scratching of itches, solution driven Stand-alone solutionsIntegrated PilotsFocused on technical interoperability, nationally and institutionally. Focused on technical solutions and Business Community Engagement Issues that all phases have in common: Collaboration - Supporting small & large-scale research - Support for single- and multi-disciplinary research

6. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 6 VRE3 Projects VRE Tools: Video Conversion on PAGManchester Video Conversion on PAG VRE Frameworks IBBRESouthampton IBBRE Collaborative Research in Business (CRIB)Lancaster Collaborative Research in Business (CRIB) Cancer Imaging VREOxford Cancer Imaging VRE ONE VREManchester ONE VRE BRAIN - Building Research and Innovation NetworksCoventry BRAIN - Building Research and Innovation Networks VRE Interoperability LinkSphereReading LinkSphere Text VREKCL Text VRE Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC)Southampton Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC) Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharingCambridge Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharing http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre/projects.aspx

7. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 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 WattNames Heriot-Watt University http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

8. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 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 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 9

10. Joint Information Systems Committee Homepage - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/ http://code.google.com/p/vreri/ Contains: General Programme introduction Introduction to Rapid Innovation Starting point for Projects 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 10

11. Joint Information Systems Committee Downloads - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/downloads/list 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) 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 11

12. Joint Information Systems Committee Wiki - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/w/list 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! 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 12

13. Joint Information Systems Committee ProgrammeDocumentation - 1/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation 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: CoreProjectResourcesFormCoreProjectResourcesForm –All data will be collected in the CoreSpreadsheet, can be corrected laterCoreSpreadsheet To Do By 2 nd week March Complete Project plan –use template from Downloads –Upload in Downloads with ProjectTag in Title. 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 13

14. Joint Information Systems Committee ProgrammeDocumentation - 2/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation 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! 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 14

15. Joint Information Systems Committee 01/05/2015 | Supporting education and research | Slide 15 Rapid Questions? Frederique M. van Till F.vanTill@JISC.ac.uk TanteTill Frederique.vanTill.JISC@gmail.com F.vanTill@JISC.ac.uk 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 http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/LanguageBirds.html