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Aston Business Centre – 22 June 2011

JISC’s VRE Programme – end of programme meeting

Christopher Brown c.brown@jisc.ac.uk Digital Infrastructure Team

Welcome and Introductions

Welcome to Aston Business School

– http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/

Wireless

– Username

– password

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Agenda

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Day 1

Time Content12:00 – 13:00 VRE Programme Meeting – VRE3/VRERI Project Presentations I

General introduction and welcome – Christopher Brown OneVRE/CritterVRE – Martin Turner IBBRE – Gary Wills VRIC – Gary Wills VRE-CI - Maria Susana Avila Garcia BRAIN – Jim Hensman

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch14:00 – 15:15 VRE Programme Meeting – VRE3/VRERI project presentations II

CRIB/EMBRACE – Robert Crouchley LinkSphere – Hugo Mills TextVRE/gMan – Stuart Dunn ConnectedWorks – John Norman MEGStream – Ian Holliday RDSPress – David Morris vizTweets – Jason Dykes PPCC – Tom Smith SERPent – Tito Castillo

15:15 – 15:30 Tea / Coffee15:30 – 15:40 VRE Programme future – Christopher Brown15:40 – 16:00 Open discussion16:00 Meeting Close

VRE future

VRE Programme Future

Discussion

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JISC VRE Programmes

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VRE1 VRE2 VRE3

2004-2007 2007-2009 2009-2011

15 Projects 4 Demonstrators 10 Projects

Technology Focused User and Research Practice Focused

Broadening Use

Experimental Developmental Embedding

Diverse design and developmental

approached

Unified design and development models

Diverse design – community and challenge

driven

Standalone solutions Integrated pilots Focussed on tools, frameworks and interoperability

Collaboration

Large and small scale research

Single and Multi-disciplinary Research

VRE Phase 3 - Overview

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VRERI – Rapid Innovation

Ami Cambridge University, Peter Murray-RustBlogMyData Reading University, Dr J D BlowerCritterVRE Manchester University, Dr Andrew RowleyEmbrace Lancaster University, Robert CrouchleygMan Kings College London, Mark HedgesMEGStream Aston University, Ian HollidayMILARQ Oxford University, Dr David M ShottonOpenImpact Southampton University, Dr Leslie CarrOpenPSIPearl Southampton University, John DarlingtonPPCC York University, Tom SmithRDSPress Coventry University, David MorrisSERPent University College London, Inst. of Child Health, Dr Tito

CastillovizTweets City University London, Dr Jason DykesWattNames Heriot-Watt University, Roger Rist

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http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

VRE – where next?

Benefits realisation and embedding

– Follow on funding for VRE3 projects

Explore leading edge technologies – Rapid Innovation

– Tools and demonstrators

Exploration of VRE issues and future directions

– Investigate and determine where future funding should be spent

– National and international perspective

International outlook

– Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG, DEFF)

– SURFfoundation (Starter Kit, SURFconext)

– Project Bamboo/Mellon Foundation

– TERENA

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VRE – where next?

Virtual Research Community

– Community building and sustainability

• Building communities from VRE3 outputs

• Develop a starter kit (VRE “Infokits” via JISC Advance)

– Engaging the general public (open science; citizen science)

– Disseminating research/research impact within the research community/scholarly comms.

“the virtual laboratory”

– Mobile interfaces

– Hybrid environments/hybrid reality

– E-lab notebooks

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Further Details

Programme Websites

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre

http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

Christopher Brown, Programme Manager (e-Research)E-Mail: c.brown@jisc.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7891 501177

Matthew Dovey, Programme Director (e-Research)

E-Mail: m.dovey@jisc.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7876 445403

Programme hash tags:

#jiscvre

#vre

#vreri

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Questions

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