vre rapid innovation - vreri kick-off and documentation frederique van till – jisc executive uk

Joint Information Systems Committee 21/04/23 | Supporting education and research | Slide 1

VRE Rapid Innovation - VRERI Kick-off and Documentation

Frederique van Till – JISC Executive UK

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad,

or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Edward de Bono – Inventor of lateral thinking


Agenda

Overview VRE Programme

– Structure and Approaches

– VRE3 projects

– VRERI projects

VRERI documentation

Questions


Programme Overview

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's

this period and that period.

Howard Hodgkin – contemporary painter


VRE Evaluation

VRE1. Tavistock Reports

VRE2 Impact Studies•VRE1 + 1•Landscape Study•Impact Study•Early Career Researchers Study VRE3 Evaluation report

The VRE3 Programme Structure

Virtual Research Community (VRC)

•Links & References (IE, National, International) •Programme Archive

• Website/Wiki•Events & Workshops

• Use cases

10 VRE3 ProjectsTools – Frameworks - Interoperability

Critical Friends

14 VRERI ProjectsResource Mgt – CommsnColl – Experimentation - BCE


VRE Approaches Summary

VRE1 VRE2 VRE3 VRERI

2004-2007 2007-2009 2009-2011 2010-2010

15 projects 4 pilots 10 projects 14 projects

Technology focused User- and research practice focused

Broadening use, Cross institutional & discipline

RI though out research lifecycle

Experimental Developmental Developmental Rapid Innovation

Diverse design & development approaches

Unified design &development

approaches, figure 8 model.

Diverse design, challenge- and

community- driven

Diverse scratching of itches, solution driven

Stand-alone solutions Integrated Pilots Focused on technical interoperability, nationally and institutionally.

Focused on technical solutions and Business

Community Engagement

Issues that all phases have in common: Collaboration - Supporting small & large-scale research - Support for single- and multi-disciplinary research


VRE3 Projects

VRE Tools: Video Conversion on PAG Manchester

VRE Frameworks IBBRE Southampton Collaborative Research in Business (CRIB) Lancaster Cancer Imaging VRE Oxford ONE VRE Manchester BRAIN - Building Research and Innovation Networks Coventry

VRE Interoperability LinkSphere Reading Text VRE KCL Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC) Southampton Institutional Scholarly comms & publication sharing Cambridge

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre/projects.aspx


VRERI Projects

Ami Cambridge University

BlogMyData Reading University

CritterVRE Manchester University

Embrace Lancaster University

gMan Kings College London

MEGStream Aston University

MILARQ Oxford University

OpenImpact Southampton University

OpenPSIPearl Southampton University

PPCC York University

RDSPress Coventry University

SERPent University College London, Institute of Child Health

vizTweets City University London

WattNames Heriot-Watt University

http://code.google.com/p/vreri/


Wiki & Documentation

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us,

but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating,

can take us there.

V. S. Naipaul - Nobel Laureate Literature 2001

Joint Information Systems Committee

Wiki & Documentation

Idea:

Notebook for Programme management

Projects labelled through out with ProjectTag

Exchange between projects while doing it!

Contents:

Homepage

Downloads

Wiki

Documentation & Dates

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Homepage - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

Contains:

General Programme introduction

Introduction to Rapid Innovation

Starting point for Projects



Downloads - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/downloads/list

Contains:

List of projects and contacts

Programme Templates

– Project plan

– Project final budget

Project Files

– Proposals

– Project plans (to be uploaded by yourself)



Wiki - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/w/list

Contains:

TableofContents

ProjectInterviewTemplate – template for project page.

ProgrammeDocumentation

Project Pages (14x – to be updated & managed by yourself)

Please remember to read and use comments!



ProgrammeDocumentation - 1/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation

To Do ASAP

Update Project page on Wiki – Send gmail address to ProgMgr to be added to Wiki

– use ProjectInterviewTemplate if needed

– Regarding ProjectBlogs: the feed has to be either ATOM or RSS2 W3C compliant (Blogger or Wordpress)

Fill out: CoreProjectResourcesForm– All data will be collected in the CoreSpreadsheet, can be corrected later

To Do By 2nd week March

Complete Project plan – use template from Downloads

– Upload in Downloads with ProjectTag in Title.



ProgrammeDocumentation - 2/2 - http://code.google.com/p/vreri/wiki/ProjectDocumentation

Progress Posts

– (I) "Project Evaluation" aka iterative reflection

– (II) "User participation" aka user cases

– (III) "Day-to-day work" aka tools, tips and trick that make you productive

– (IV) "Technical standards" aka stuff you reuse

– (V) "Value Add" aka what shifted your thinking in a new direction

– (VI) "Small WIN(s") & "FAIL(s)" aka advice others could benefit from

– (VII) Final Progress Post aka final prototype product advertisement DEADLINE: PROJECT END DATE AND NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 1ST

Final Project Sign-Off

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 11TH 2010 BUDGETS MUST BE APPROVED BY PROGMGR SO PLEASE SUBMIT IN TIME!



Rapid Questions?

Frederique M. van Till [email protected]

TanteTill [email protected]

http://code.google.com/p/vreri/

Pictures from art piece called "Language of the Birds,“ by Dorka Keehn and Brian Goggin, North Beach of San Francisco, USA, 2008. http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/LanguageBirds.html

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