"virtual" vres - bringing research into the curriculum
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Presentation given at LiLa conference, 11 April 2011 (http://www.lila-project.org/conference2011/programme.html)TRANSCRIPT
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LiLa Conference 2011: Sharing Online Laboratories for Education – 11 April 2011
“Virtual” VREs - bringing research into the curriculum
Christopher BrownDigital Infrastructure Team
JISC Mission
To provide world-class leadership in the
innovative use of ICT, to support education
and research
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Primary JISC Activities
Network
Access Management
e-Infrastructure
e-ContentServicesInnovation
Programmes
Outreach &Embedding
Committees &Consultation
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JISC e-Research Programmes
Research Infrastructures and Services
Research Data Management
Virtual Research Environments
Research Communities Engagement
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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
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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
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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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 2
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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VRE for Study of Documents and Manuscripts
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CREW
Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)
Overview Slides April 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/
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CREW
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“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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User Profiles Groups Friends Sharing Tags Workflows Developer interface Credits and Attributions Fine control over privacy Packs Federation EnactmentD
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myExperiment Features
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Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology - VERA
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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
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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
VRERI – Rapid Innovation
Ami Cambridge University, Sr 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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VRERI - Megstream
Megstream: Streamlining the processing of MEG dataThe Megstream prototype aims to simplify brain research and make it more accessible. MEG scanners measure magnetic activity in the brain over time. Specialist software from the vendor produces images of this activity within the brain for analysis and diagnosis.
The Megstream software makes it easier to produce these images by:– overlaying the previously complex and ‘fuzzy’ process with ordered workflows
– providing remote access to these analysis workflows via a web browser
And it makes it easier to track and reproduce the underlying research by:– recording information about each scan in a database
– using a plugin to the WordPress blogging platform to link the information in the database and the process of creating and analysing MEG images
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http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lhs/research/centres-facilities/brain-centre/facilities-clinical-services/meg-studies/streamlining-meg/
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
VRE – for teaching
Many VRE projects could be built on to take them into the classroom
Use same tools as researchers – “virtual” VRE
Taking into a teaching environment not often considered
In future include from the outset not as an add on
Often requires removing personal information from real data
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Further Details
Programme Websites
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre
http://code.google.com/p/vreri/
Christopher Brown, Programme Manager (e-Research)E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 7891 501177
Matthew Dovey, Programme Director (e-Research)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 7876 445403
Programme hash tags:
#jiscvre
#vre
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Questions
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