Supporting further and higher education VRE Programme Current Position and Achievements to Date Maia Dimitrova 28 th Nov 05
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 The VRE Road Ahead Integrated Distributed VRE? VRE Roadmap Programme Start VRE Frameworks What Users Want? VRE Toolset VRE Architectures
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 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.
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 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?
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 VRE Projects Time-Line 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
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Overview of Achievements Research Processes User Needs & Requirements VRE Design Architectures VRE Frameworks & Tools
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Research Processes
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Project Management Resource Discovery Peer activities (publishing) Linking Research and Teaching Consultancy Collaboration with Partners Research Outputs Obtain Funding EVIE Research Lifecycle
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 IBVRE Research Lifecycle
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 User Needs & Requirements
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 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
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 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
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Humanities Requirements Integrated interface for browsing & searching of multiple image collections Tools to compare and annotate personal collections
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 VRE Design Architectures
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 CORE Architecture
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 IB Architecture
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 GROWLS Architecture End-user application GROWL client invoked as a function call GROWL services Local O/S e.g. workstation Remote O/S, e.g. parallel computer GSI, MyProxy Globus-job-run etc. GridFTP, etc. SABRE or other remote app GROWL passes data and requests across firewalls using Web services
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 VRE Frameworks & Tools
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Sakai Portal Demonstrator
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Blog Shared Display Shared Whiteboard Multicast Audio Multicast Video Sakai Extensions
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 ELVI Portal
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Access Grid Tools - 1
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 Access Grid Tools - 2
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 We Are Not Alone e-Science e-Infrastructure e-Learning e-Framework NSF/Mellon funded work in USA DEST in Australia EU-funded work
VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05 What does it all mean? Over to John Kelleher …