supporting further and higher education vre programme current position and achievements to date maia...

Supporting further and higher education

VRE Programme

Current Position and Achievements to Date

Maia Dimitrova

28th Nov ‘05

VRE Consultation Workshop - Nov '05

The VRE Road Ahead

2004

2005

2008

IntegratedDistributed

VRE?

VRE Roadmap

Programme Start

VRE FrameworksWhat Users Want?

VRE ToolsetVRE Architectures


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 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 Projects Time-LineName 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


Overview of Achievements

• Research Processes

• User Needs & Requirements

• VRE Design Architectures

• VRE Frameworks & Tools


Research Processes


Project Management

Resource Discovery

Peer activities (publishing)

Linking Research and Teaching

Consultancy

Collaboration with

Partners

Research Outputs

Obtain Funding

EVIE Research Lifecycle


IBVRE Research Lifecycle


User Needs & Requirements


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


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


Humanities Requirements

• Integrated interface for browsing & searching of multiple image collections

• Tools to compare and annotate personal collections


VRE Design Architectures


CORE Architecture


IB Architecture


GROWL’S Architecture

End-user application

GROWL client invoked as a function call

GROWL services

Local O/Se.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 Frameworks &

Tools


Sakai Portal Demonstrator


• Blog• Shared

Display• Shared

Whiteboard• Multicast

Audio• Multicast

Video

Sakai Extensions


ELVI Portal


Access Grid Tools - 1


Access Grid Tools - 2


We Are Not Alone

e-Science

e-Infrastructure

e-Learning

e-Framework

NSF/Mellon funded work

in USA

DEST in Australia

EU-funded work


What does it all mean?

Over to John Kelleher …

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Documents

vre consultation workshop

vre toolset vre architectures

vre help

vre roadmap programme

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elvi portal slide

ib architecture slide

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