jisc vre/research tools presentation
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20 March 2012
JISC’s VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research
Christopher Brown [email protected] Digital Infrastructure Team
JISC Mission
To provide world-class leadership in the
innovative use of ICT, to support education
and research
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VRE definition
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A VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate or enhance the processes of research practitioners within and across institutional boundaries.
A key characteristic of a VRE is that it facilitates collaboration amongst researchers and research teams providing them with more effective means of collaboratively collecting, manipulating and managing data, as well as collaborative knowledge creation.
JISC VRE Programmes
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
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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 1
Experimental
Application of VLE approaches to research
Application of Service Oriented Architectures to research
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VRE Phase 1 - Domain Areas
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
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VRE Phase 1 - Technologies
Domain Specific
OGHAM
BVREH
ELVIEVIE
Portal
ISME
IBVRE COREPortal Demo
Sakai
CheshireEdu Research
Political Discourse
Generic
MEMETIC
CSAGE
Growl
IUGO
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VRE Phase 2
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
Developmental
User Centric & Research Focused
VRE Exemplars
Demonstrators
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VRE Phase 2 – Four Demonstrators
VRE-SDM Oxford University http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM
CREW Manchester University http://www.crew-vre.net/
myExperiment Southampton University http://www.myexperiment.org/
VERA Reading University http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/
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VRE for Study of Documents and Manuscripts
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Instant Messagingor IRC Log
e-mail listarchive
messages
Personal Blogsand photo archivesetc. of members of
the audience
Alerting Services
Event web site
Related ExternalContent e.g.
project web pages
Examples of web-based content related to asingle conference or event presentation
Presenterspersonal
homepage
Web-basedannotation
services
VRE 1 – Semantic linking of data
VRE 1 – Semantic linking of AG annotations
CREW - Collaborative Research Events on the Web
“Facebook for Scientists” ...but different to Facebook!
A repository of research methods
A community social network A Virtual Research
Environment
Open source (BSD) Ruby on Rails application with HTML, REST and SPARQL interfaces
Project started March 2007 Closed beta since July 2007 Open beta November 2007
myExperiment has over 3000 members, 200 groups, 1000 workflows, 300 files and 100 packs*Go to www.myexperiment.org to access publicly available content or create an account
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scientists
LocalWeb
Repositories
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Virtual Learning Environment
Technical Reports
Reprints
Peer-Reviewed Journal &
Conference Papers
Preprints &
Metadata
Certified Experimental
Results & Analyses
experimentation
Data, Metadata Provenance WorkflowsOntologies
Digital Libraries
The social process of Science 2.0
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VERA – Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology
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VERA – Online presence
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VERA – Technology trials
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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
Embedding and extending take-up
“Building communities for sharing practice”
Open ended/rolling programme
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VRE Phase 3
The intention of this programme is not to produce a complete VRE, but rather to define and help to develop the frameworks and associated standards and to encourage the development and population of VREs with applications, services and resources appropriate to their needs.
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VRE Phase 3 - Overview
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VRE Phase 3 - Projects
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Strand 1 - VRE Tools- Video Conversion on PAG Manchester
Strand 2 - VRE Frameworks IBBRE Southampton
Collaborative Research in Business (CRIB) Lancaster
Cancer Imaging VRE Oxford
ONE VRE Manchester
BRAIN - Building Research and Innovation Networks Coventry
Strand 3 - VRE InteroperabilityLinkSphere Reading
Text VRE KCL
Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC)
Southampton
Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharing Cambridge
VRE Phase 3 – IBBRE
A VRE to support cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration in internet-based behavioural research
Enable behavioural scientists working within a variety of disciplines across the university to collaborate in sharing and reviewing components of internet-delivered interventions
Analyse and describe how the VRE can be flexibly used to support collaborations within and outside the university
LifeGuide enables researchers to design interventions that: – give tailored advice based on the user's answers to questions;– allow users to plan, chart and check their progress;– send follow-up messages to users in the form of personalised emails or texts; – automatically randomise users to different interventions arms;– store all data on user responses and website usage for output to Excel and
CSV
http://www.lifeguideonline.org/ 20/03/2012 | Slide 22
VRE Phase 3 – CRIB
Collaborative Research In Business
Provide a web-based VRE platform (built on Sakai) that supports management and business professionals in university departments and related organisations who are the essential links between research and commerce.
Demonstrates how a VRE can be extended to include management research and practice with tools enabling more effective collaboration, sharing of information and accelerating their progress through the research lifecycle.
EMBRaCE (VRERI) – E-Managed Business Relationships and Cohesive Environments. – Exploring mechanisms for the development of large scale e-communities of
owner-managers of smaller enterprises.– Knowledge transfer activities between public sector and businesses.
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VRE Phase 3 – VRE-CI
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VRE Toolkit for SP2010
Cancer Imaging VRE (VRE-CI) to provide a framework to allow researchers and clinicians involved in Cancer Imaging to share information, images and algorithms. Builds on the Research Information Centre (RIC) developed for bioscience researchers by the British Library and Microsoft Corporation.
VRE Phase 3 – VRE-CI
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Image Viewer
Image LibraryImage Metadata Curation
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VRE Phase 3 – BRAIN
Building Research And Innovation Networks project
Key components of the project:
– Selecting a methodology for the project as a whole and using it to structure and plan the project (Agile/RAD).
– Finding out what people do in the area of research and innovation and what they needed to improve this.
– Analysing how University research-related processes work and how they could be improved.
– Helping to fulfil user requirements particularly by facilitating the building of networks and communities and by developing, integrating and deploying supporting tools and services.
– Evaluating results and impact and feeding this back into the project.
http://innovation1.coventry.ac.uk/brain/
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VRE Phase 3 – BRAIN
www.project-brain.org
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Expertise Search Tool (Stand-alone version)
Researcher Matching Tool (Online version)
VRE Phase 3 – Linksphere
Linking researchers and information
Create a unified system with single virtual interface to search all repositories and collections within University of Reading
Integration of social network for researchers
Enable social interaction and collaboration
Repositories include, for example:
– Silchester IADB http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk
– Film Collection – Film, Television and Theatre http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/
– Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Ure/
– The Museum of English Rural Life http://www.merl.org.uk/
http://www.linksphere.org/
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VRE Phase 3 – TextVRE
Support the complete lifecycle of research in e-Humanities textual studies
Collaborative environment for textual scholarship, using German TextGrid infrastructure
Dispersed scholars working on diverse (digital) humanities projects
Develop a VRE that is embedded in the day-to-day research activities of scholars
Integrate VRE with institutional infrastructure: repositories, preservation, archives/library
Provide integrated framework for dealing with (text-based) historical and archival material
http://textvre.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/
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VRE Phase 3 – VRIC
Virtual Research Integration Collaboration
Take the Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment VRE (CORE) from VRE1 and integrated into The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH)
Built on the myExperiment platform to share artefacts and enable collaboration
VRIC walks users through the stages that constitute the health care research process.
Provides tools to facilitate creation of research protocol, trials’ documentation, data analysis and organisation of results
33 clinical trials being added to VRIC
http://www.vric.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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VRE Phase 3 – Connected Works (Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharing)
CARET (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, Univ of Cambridge) is working with the University Library and Symplectic Ltd to create a scholarly networking platform, inside their Sakai-based VRE CamTools.
Supporting researchers – sharing their profiles, connecting with others and driving new collaborations.
“One-click publication sharing” system
– Enable academics to upload a new paper, and automatically have it placed in the institutional repository and added to their online profile, and also use information about the paper to recommend new connections within the network.
http://connectedworks.blogspot.com/
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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/
VRERI - AMI
AMI - a prototype of a natural user interface system that allows bench scientists to interact with their experimental information at the fumehood, using innovative modes of communication appropriate to the lab setting, focusing on voice recognition, touch-screens and laser keyboards.
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The Ami experiment selection screen
Log in using ID badge (Touch-A-Tag RFID reader)
The Ami event log screen
All chemicals and apparatus tagged with an RFID tag
http://amiproject.wordpress.com
VRERI - AMI
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All output files created are stored in one directory for each experiment. This makes it easy to keep track of all data created, and to transfer it to the electronic lab notebook
Each sensor has its own log file
The Ami Experiment Monitoring Tool, here being used to monitor tea temperature…
The infrared sensor being tested on an Arduino circuit board
VRERI - BlogMyData
www.blogmydata.org Allows environmental scientists to visually and interactively explore
large datasets, then create notes and annotations about the data.
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www.rdg.ac.uk/godiva2
+ =blogs.chem.soton.ac.uk
@Keith: What do you
think is going on here?
@Tom: Looks like a bug
in the model.
@Harry: Could be a bad
observation. I’ll overlay
the obs database.
Post-VRE3
Research Programme
– Incorporates VRE and research infrastructure programmes
– A wider focus than the original VRE programme
– Consists of two strands:
• Research Tools
• Research Support
VRE Starter Kit/Infokit via JISC Advance
VRE Knowledge Base
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Research Programme - Projects
First Research Tools call (16/11) Feb – July 2012
– CamELS
• Improve the adoption of ELNs within Chemistry Dept of Cambridge and Southampton.
– Increasing interoperability between Corpus Tools
• Explore ways of linking different corpus query tools so that users can investigate aspects of the same data in a variety of ways.
– e-Health GATEway to the Clouds
• Establish a cloud-based VRE on the White Rose Grid to support e-health records research
– HISTORE
• Developing training modules to encourage and support the use of online historical research tools within VREs
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Research Programme - Projects
First Research Tools call (16/11) Feb – July 2012
– INSPIRES
• Using visualisation environments and tools to find cross-disciplinary connections between researchers and projects.
– SLRGuide
• Establish the requirements for, and develop a cloud based collaborative tool to support, the systematic literature review process
– TEXTUS
• Developing an open source platform that helps researchers and students to collaborate around and work with collections of digitised public domain texts
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Research Programme Projects
Second Research Tools call (01/12) July – March 2013
– 4 strands:
• Emerging tools
• Facilitating research communications
• Develop sustainable and open vocabularies for research and information management
• Synthesis project focussed on sustainable and open vocabularies for research and information management
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International Connections
Knowledge Exchange
– JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG, DEF
SURF
– Starter Kit –> VRE “Infokits”
– SURFconext
Project Bamboo/Mellon Foundation
TERENA
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Further Details
Programme Websites
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre
http://code.google.com/p/vreri/
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_research.aspx
Christopher Brown, Programme Manager
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 7891 501177
Torsten Reimer, Programme Manager
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 787 512 0055
Matthew Dovey, Programme Director (e-Research)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 7876 445403
Programme hash tags:
#jiscvre #vre #jiscresearch #jiscrestools#jiscressupport
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Questions
16/05/2011 | Slide 43