JISC

Audience Sectors: HE and FE Third Stream groups: IT Managers, Librarians, Instituional Heads

Session Chair Ian Griffiths, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Nottingham Trent University (member of the JISC Network committee)

Presenters

• Tim Marshall, Chief Executive, UKERNA
• Julia Chruszcz, Director of MIMAS
• Perter Burnhill, Director of EDINA
• Q&A Panel: All and John Robinson, JISC

Objectives of the session

• Introduce the range of JISC services available to JANET sites
• Introduce the JISC National Data Centres
• Understand the entitlements of JANET sites as members of the JISC community
• Meet and question heads of some of JISC's key service providers

Aim one of JISC's strategic vision is to deliver innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their missions. Tim Marshall, Julia Chruszcz and Peter Burnhill will present three of the major Services supported by JISC in pursuit of this aim. The first presentation, entitled "JANET: Not so much a network, more a way of life", presents JANET as a "world class dedicated network ... offering a breadth of opportunities to its users today and unlocking great possibilities in the future". The second presentation, "Taking it to the Network: the role of EDINA & MIMAS as national data Centres", presents the two JISC National Data Centres which "help enhance productivity [and provide a] means for institutions to collaborate on problems by taking these to the network-level for solution as common services". Together these presentations will show the broad range of services to which you as a member of the JANET community have access and how they support institutions at all levels. This will be followed by a short question and answer session.

Questions invited ahead of the conference session should be addressed to Dicky Maidment-Otlet

Details of the presentations

JANET: not so much a network, more a way of life

Tim Marshall, CEO of UKERNA

JANET is a vital resource to enable the competitiveness of the UK's research, universities and colleges. Over the last twenty years the network has remained at the forefront of network technology and today is able to deliver key services to over 18 million users. Without JANET this broad range of services would not be available to the community in such an integrated way. Through the vision of the JISC and its predecessors UKERNA is now able to operate a world class dedicated network which delivers significant benefit to UK research and education. This presentation outlines how JANET has become a way of life, offering a breadth of opportunities to its users today and unlocking great possibilities in the future.

Taking it to the Network: the role of EDINA & MIMAS as national data centres (NDCs)

Julia Chruszcz, MIMAS and Peter Burnhill, EDINA

A description of the role and function of the two JISC-designated NDCs: supporting JISC is its mission; delivering services over JANET in order to help enhance productivity - both of those who carry out research, learning and teaching, and those who provide (local) academic support services in universities, colleges and research institutes; engaging in project activity to assist developments of the UK digital library. Agreements between HEFCE (for the UK funding bodies) and the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester ensure that the JISC can offer EDINA and MIMAS as means for institutions to collaborate on problems by taking these to the network-level for solution as common services.

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