1. Joint Information Systems Committee 1st October 1007 | | Slide 1 Ms. Frederique M. van Till MSc Programme manager Collaborative Research Technologies JISC e-Research VRE Brown Bag session Georgetown University, 1 st October 2007

2. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 4 Introduction JISC Executive

5. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 6 1. The VRE Vision e-ScientistScientist in the field e-Resources e-Experiments

7. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 7 1. The VRE Funding VRE1 £3.2M Users & Innovation £4M e-Infrastructure £10.5M VRE 2½ ?M VRE2 £1.6M 2004 2006 2009 2016?

8. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 8 What happened 15 VRE projects 2004-2007 1 Past…

9. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 9 1. The projects of Phase 1 Name10/0401/0504/0507/0510/0501/0604/0607/0610/0601/0704/0707/07 EdSci Politic Sakai Portal IB BVRE Chesh OGHA GROW EVIE ELVI MEME SAGE ISME IUGO CORE

10. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 10 User Geographic Span Grenoble, France USA NZ

11. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 11 Domain Areas Covered 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

12. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 12 1. VRE Technical Solutions ELVI EVIE Portal Sakai Domain Specific Generic ISME IBVRE CORE OGHAM BVREH MEMETIC CSAGE Cheshire IUGO Growl Portal Demo Edu Research Political Discourse

13. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 13 1. Evaluation Phase 1 eReSS consortium – http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/eress.html http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/eress.html –Interoperability study Tavistock institute - http://www.tavinstitute.org/http://www.tavinstitute.org/ –Formative Evaluation 2 DVD video’s – VRE’s in Practice

14. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 14 VRE2 Approach Contextual Analysis Integration Design Building Testing User Needs Analysis Change analysis Pilots System analysis Other Programmes & Initiatives Programme Evaluation e-Research Interoperability developer s users Community Engagement

15. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 15 VRE 1 vs VRE 2 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 Collaboration Supporting small & large-scale research Support for single-disciplinary and multi- disciplinary research

16. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 16 4 VRE projects 2007-2009 2 Present…

17. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 17 Phase 2 projects Documents and Manuscripts VRE – Oxford University –http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDMhttp://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM VERA – University of Reading –http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/ CREW – University of Manchester –http://www.crew-vre.net/http://www.crew-vre.net/ myExperiment – University of Southampton –http://myexperiment.org/http://myexperiment.org/

18. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 18 2 ½ Future…

19. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 19 Whats next? 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 VRE wide  Collaboration  Supporting small & large-scale research  Support for single-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research

20. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 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. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 21 Institutional embedding? Multi Institutional VRE’s? 3?

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23. Joint Information Systems Committee 22/06/2007 | | Slide 23 Questions and discussion Frederique van Till F.vanTill@JISC.ac.uk+44 (0) 7875 33 8070 F.vanTill@JISC.ac.uk http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2.aspx