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Aston Business Centre – 22 June 2011<br />Presenter or main title…<br />JISC’s AIM/VRE Programmes – crossover workshop<br />Session Title or subtitle…<br />Christopher Brown c.brown@jisc.ac.ukDigital Infrastructure Team<br />

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Welcome<br />Welcome to Aston Business School<br />http://www.conferenceaston.co.uk/<br />Wireless<br />Username<br />password<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 2<br />chriscb77@gmail.com<br />

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Agenda<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 3<br />Day 1<br />chriscb77@gmail.com<br />

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AIM Programme<br />1st Jan 2009 to 31st March 2011 (IdM Toolkit Pilots – Feb-July 2011)<br />Focus:<br />Process<br />Policy<br />Technology <br />Objectives<br />Build foundations for production systems that universities might adopt in the future<br />Prepare the sector for future developments<br />Improve user experience<br />Increase value and make AIM relevant to wider community <br />Enable integrated systems architecture<br />Develop practical tools to enable AIM<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 4<br />Exploring Innovative new areas<br />chriscb77@gmail.com<br />

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VRE definition<br />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 researchpractitioners within and across institutional boundaries.<br />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.<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 5<br />

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VRE Phase 3<br />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.<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 6<br />

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VRE – where next?<br />Benefits realisation and embedding<br />Follow on funding for VRE3 projects<br />Explore leading edge technologies – Rapid Innovation<br />Tools and demonstrators<br />Exploration of VRE issues and future directions<br />Investigate and determine where future funding should be spent<br />National and international perspective<br />International outlook<br />Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG, DEFF)<br />SURFfoundation (Starter Kit, SURFconext)<br />Project Bamboo/Mellon Foundation<br />TERENA<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 7<br />

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VRE – where next?<br />Virtual Research Community<br />Community building and sustainability <br />Building communities from VRE3 outputs<br />Develop a starter kit (VRE “Infokits” via JISC Advance)<br />Engaging the general public (open science; citizen science)<br />Disseminating research/research impact within the research community/scholarly comms. <br />“the virtual laboratory”<br />Mobile interfaces<br />Hybrid environments/hybrid reality<br />E-lab notebooks<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 8<br />

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AIM – The road ahead<br />Follow-on funding (RAPTOR and SMART)<br />Support of Identity Management Toolkit <br />2 pilot projects<br />Toolkit review (November 2011)<br />www.identity-project.org an IdM hub<br />Shibboleth Consortium <br />Embedding outputs and community building<br />Future Directions (international perspective):<br />Cloud, Delegation, Inter-federation, User centricity, Persistence of identity, Identity/identifiers<br />SURFnet, DEFF, DFG (Knowledge Exchange)<br />Cross-programme work (VRE, e-Learning, BCE, etc)<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 9<br />

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AIM/VRE Workshop<br />Discussion <br />What AIM issues exist within VREs?<br />How can AIM improve national and international collaboration?<br />Improved access to research groups’ data?<br />Integrating Cloud with collaboration?<br />Federated Id / User centric Id access to collaborative environments?<br />SURFconext (SURFnet) http://www.surfnet.nl/en/Thema/coin/Pages/default.aspx<br />Colwiz<br />22/06/2011 | Slide 10<br />