Joint Information
Systems Committee
JISC Strategies & Support
of e-Science
for Research
Supporting Further and Higher Education
The JISC Mission is:
“to provide world class leadership in
the innovative use of Information
and Communication Technologies
to support education and
research”.
Supporting Further and Higher Education
Budget
03-04
Networking
Electronic Info
Content
L&T
Human & Organisation
Research
Central Services
£m
28.58
7.10
11.41
3.90
5.92
2.79
4.94
64.64
Supporting Further and Higher Education
Priorities 2004-06
• Maintain and develop a world class network
and infrastructure for institutions
• Provide sustainable procurement and
delivery services for online content
• Develop a common information and
communications environment
• Create MLEs from VLEs & MIS
• Provide coherent, economical advice and
guidance services to staff within institutions
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Priorities Cont
• Improve information and feedback
mechanism
• With Becta and the Academy help embed
ICT
• Develop e-Research infrastructure
• Help institutions manage ICT investment
• Provide technology observatory
• Support widening participation
• Improve effectivness of JISC
• Partnership role
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JCSR activities
• JCSR is funding projects relating to
authentication, authorisation and
accounting
• JCSR with EPSRC is funding projects
relating to semantic grids and
autonomic computing
• JCSR with ESRC is funding projects
to train social scientists in the use of
new e-research approaches
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JCSR activities (Continued)
• JCSR with CCRLC is funding National Grid
Service; four computing clusters to allow
researchers to work in a ‘safe’ Grid
environment
• JCSR with e-Science Core Programme and
JCCS is funding a Digital Curation Centre
to provide advice and support on the
preservation and re-use of digital material
• JCSR with AHRB is funding to train arts and
humanities researchers in the use of
innovative ICT approaches
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JCSR activities (continued)
• JCSR with BBSRC and EPSRC is
funding a UK Text Mining Centre to
enable researchers to excavate richer
seams of electronic material
• JCSR is funding three projects to
demonstrate e-science in schools to
capture the imagination of young
students
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UK Light
• HEFCE is investing £6.5 million in a UK
initiative, known as ‘UKLight’, in the area
of optical networking
• UKLight will enable the UK to participate
in the next era of international network
collaboration, based on a global
integrated testbed.
• JCSR provides policy direction for
UKLight, with operational support from
UKERNA.
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Virtual Research Environment
• HEFCE has allocated funding to JISC
of £3.2 million to develop a Virtual
Research Environment (VRE)
• 15 projects approved
– implementing portals + tools for portals
– range of frameworks
• CHEF/SAKAI, OGCE, Boddington
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In The Future
• JCSR looking at
– Visualisation
– Middleware
– Security
– Collaborative working
• Work plan for the next year being
developed now.
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JCSR Membership
Chair:
•
Professor Tony Hey, Director of e-Science Core Programme, EPSRC
Members:
•
Ms Alison AlldenDirector of IS, University of Bristol
•
Dr David Boyde-Science Core Programme
•
Professor Peter ClarkeNational e-Science Centre, Edinburgh
•
Professor Robert Crouchley, University of Lancaster
•
Dr Neil Geddes, CCLRC e-Science Centre
•
Mr Brian GilmoreDirector, University of Edinburgh
•
Dr John Gordon, Deputy Director, e-Science Centre, CCLRC
•
Professor Roy Kalawsky, Loughborough University
•
Dr Ross KingDepartment of Computer Science, University of Wales Aberystwyth
•
Dr Bryan LawrenceNERC Information Systems
•
Dr Ian NusseyIBM United Kingdom Ltd
•
Professor Alan RectorDirector, Medical Informatics Group, University of Manchester
•
Professor David RobeyDirector of ICT in Arts & Humanities Programme, AHRB and
Head of the School of Modern Languages, University of Reading
•
Professor David de RoureDepartment of Electronics & Computer Science, University of
Southampton
•
Observers:
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Professor Chris CooperRepresenting UKERNA
•
Dr Liz LyonRepresenting UKOLN
•
Professor Wim LiebrandRepresenting the SURF Foundation, The Netherlands
•
Ms Jan WilkinsonRepresenting the British Library
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