VRE Programme Current Position and Achievements to Date

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VRE ProgrammeCurrent Position and Achievements
to Date

• Maia Dimitrova
• 28th Nov 05

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The VRE Road Ahead
Integrated Distributed VRE?
2008
VRE Toolset
VRE Architectures
VRE Frameworks
2005
What Users Want?
Programme Start
2004
VRE Roadmap
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VRE Roadmap 04 - Aim

• The aim of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
  is to help researchers manage this complexity of
  research by providing an infrastructure
  specifically designed to support the activities
  carried out within research teams, on both small
  and large scales.

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VRE Roadmap 04 - ???s

• On which technologies it could be based?
• How it can be developed sustainably?
• How usability and take-up can be ensured?

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VRE Projects Time-Line
Name 10/04 01/05 04/05 07/05 10/05 01/06 04/06 07/06 10/06 01/07 04/07 07/07
EdSci
Politic
Sakai Portal
IB
BVRE
Chesh
OGHA
GROW
EVIE
ELVI
MEME
SAGE
ISME
IUGO
CORE
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Overview of Achievements

• Research Processes
• User Needs Requirements
• VRE Design Architectures
• VRE Frameworks Tools

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Research Processes
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EVIE Research Lifecycle
Resource Discovery
Project Management
Research Outputs
Obtain Funding
Collaboration with Partners
Peer activities (publishing) Linking Research and
Teaching Consultancy
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IBVRE Research Lifecycle
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User Needs Requirements
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General Requirements

• Allow easy access to a diverse set of resources
• Flexibility in choosing resources and
  personalising the VRE
• Help with writing grant applications
• Services to centralise forms resources
• Better access to information about researchers
  their interests

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Collaboration Requirements

• Links between the collaborative tools and
  repositories
• Ability to push information to and alert all
  members of a group
• Ensure data security for centralised data
  repositories

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Humanities Requirements

• Integrated interface for browsing searching of
  multiple image collections
• Tools to compare and annotate personal
  collections

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VRE Design Architectures
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CORE Architecture
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IB Architecture
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GROWLS Architecture
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VRE Frameworks Tools
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Sakai Portal Demonstrator
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Sakai Extensions

• Blog
• Shared Display
• Shared Whiteboard
• Multicast Audio
• Multicast Video

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ELVI Portal
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Access Grid Tools - 1
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Access Grid Tools - 2
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We Are Not Alone
EU-funded work
NSF/Mellon funded work in USA
DEST in Australia
e-Framework
e-Infrastructure
e-Science
e-Learning
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What does it all mean?

• Over to John Kelleher