1. BoF: VREs- Keith G Jeffery & Helen Glaves

2. Agenda Tour de Table (Keith Jeffery)
Introduction to the meeting and its purpose (Keith Jeffery)
Existing Draft Case Statement (Helen Glaves)
Discussion (moderator Keith Jeffery)
Conclusions and Next Steps (Helen Glaves)

3. Tour de Table

4. Introduction

5. Rationale Confusion Requirement Timeliness
Need agreed-upon concepts and definitions
Requirement
Researchers demanding ‘workbench’ to cover all their requirements
Timeliness
VRE development projects underway

6. Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
A VRE or virtual laboratory is an online system helping researchers collaborate.
Features usually include:
Collaboration support (Web forums and wikis)
Document hosting
Discipline-specific tools, such as data analysis, visualisation, or simulation management
May include publication management and teaching tools such as presentations and slides
Important in fields where research is primarily carried out in teams spanning institutions and even countries
The ability to easily share information and research results is valuable. (Wikipedia)

7. VREs
Becoming of great interest in all regions where research data is being used actively.
Emerging European model:
VREs to access one or more e-Research Infrastructures (e.g. EPOS, ENVRI+, EXCELERATE)
These in turn utilise common e-Infrastructures (e.g. GEANT, EUDAT, PRACE, EGI)
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8. Proposed IG Address: Will relate to just about all RDA groups
architectural principles
governance issues
technologies
design and development best practices
Will relate to just about all RDA groups
Draw on expertise of RDA groups
Be based, when possible, on RDA output products and recommendations
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9. Approaches Built upon: content management systems
learning environments
access to datasets
analysis / visualisation / modelling software tools
digital libraries (publications)
research management systems
collaborative tools

10. An Overview (European)
e-RI
e.g. EPOS
e.g. ENVRI+
e-I (GEANT, EGI, OSC, EUDAT……)
VRE
Reference Architecture
Components
Implementation

11. Reference Architecture
Interfacing
VRE
Reference Architecture
Components
Implementation
Interfaces to (for each e-RI):
AAAI systems
Catalog of users, datasets, software services, resources (computing, equipment/detectors), services with associated information on rights, costs
And from this……
Access to datasets
Access to (APIs of) software services
Access to workflows
Access to computing resources (including GRIDs and CLOUDs)
Access to equipment/detectors for data taking and parameter control
Collaboration
Communication
Research Management

12. Reference Architecture
Interfacing
VRE
Reference Architecture
Components
Implementation
Interfaces to (for each e-RI):
AAAI systems
Catalog of users, datasets, software services, resources (computing, equipment/detectors), services with associated information on rights, costs
And from this……
Access to datasets
Access to (APIs of) software services
Access to workflows
Access to computing resources (including GRIDs and CLOUDs)
Access to equipment/detectors for data taking and parameter control
Collaboration
Communication
Research Management
metadata

13. Questions Interest: Is there interest in evolving from BoF to IG?
If so:
Organisation: more co-leads?
Process: case statement (next)
Schedule: timeline – aim for next plenary?
Intermediate meetings: online?

14. Case Statement
Review and discuss

15. Discussion

16. Conclusions and next Steps