Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009 Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 28 July - 5 August 2009. "Virtual Research Environments and the Librarian" presented by Judith Wusteman, UCD School of Information and Library Studies, Ireland

1. Virtual Research Environments and the Librarian Judith Wusteman

3. Computer intensive Data intensive Collaborative Multi disciplinary E-Research

5. VRE Collaboratory Cyberenvironment Science gateway Online / collaborative / virtual / research community Second generation digital library

6. See Voss, A. & Procter, R “Virtual Research Environments in Scholarly Work and Communications” LHT, (2009) authorise provenance awareness monitor resource / process discover resources publish output archive data re-use data invoke computation configure a resource transfer data collaborate communicate authenticate Researcher

7. Computer intensive Data intensive Collaborative Multi disciplinary VRE

10. Computer intensive Data intensive Collaborative Multi disciplinary VRE

11. D4Science DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on Grid ENabled Technology 4 Science

12. Computer intensive Data intensive Collaborative Multi disciplinary VRE

17. The VRE: Generic or specific? Research group Domain Institution

19. A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts BVREH Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities

20. Drenthe, G & Goris, G.

21. Tales of the Revolt : Sharing, Enhancing, and Disseminating Sources

22. TEXTvre: VRE for textual studies

23. The VRE: Generic or specific? Research group Domain Institution

26. http://www.ucd.ie/ojax/

28. OneVRE to Join them all

29. Research Information Centre (RIC) British Library & Microsoft S lides with thanks to Stephen Andrews

30. Project home page

31. Searching the literature – federated sources

32. Searching the literature – results page

33. Project repositories - bookmarks

34. Project repositories – the Slide Library

35. Searching the project repositories

36. Funding

37. Funding – creating a proposal

41. VRE Development Agile software development OSS development? Web 2.0 User Centred Design Iterative Openness User Control User Centred VRE

45. Current library involvement in VRE development No library involvement included in our initial survey not to the extent that we would have liked....partly due to lack of response to our requests to meet Why were libraries not involved? Difficult to give a clear reason. the aims of the project did not merit contact with librarians we consulted... anyone who was actively involved in the research lifecycle such a specialised application, ...they'd much rather talk to someone who is in the same profession. on advisory committee we fed back any comments

46. Current library involvement in VRE development working directly with library services as part of the research process was foreign to the [science] research teams involved. primary resources were not within library domain … too concerned with tightly controlling what would be produced – made it difficult to respond to what researchers actually want. Deliberate lack of involvement challenging views on items in collection… ” Are librarians ready for this?!” library represented on steering group but no work package assigned to them