JISC

JISC’s Director of Systems Technology and Infrastructure, Bill Olivier began the session by introducing the service oriented approach (soa) animation; making sense of the e-Framework. Currently the most popular download on the JISC website.

Seeking to provide clarity and clarification, this session introduced the e-Framework initiative, the service oriented approach (soa) to ICT provision and the development of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) within institutions.

The e-Framework is three things:

• A major JISC research and development programme
• A n International initiative seeking to share the workload and expertise involved in supporting service oriented approaches for education and research
• A website supporting a knowledge base, on service oriented approaches

In essence, the e-Framework is JISC and their partner’s way of exploring and supporting service oriented approaches.

To find out more about the e-Framework initiative; to learn about the potential benefits of developing a Service Oriented Architecture for your own institution; to learn about some emerging approaches, view the presentation (available below). 

Chris Greenslade, The Open Group

The Open Group is a not for profit consortium, committed to making technical standards work, in support of integrated information.

As a consortium, The Open Group has a mixed membership; corporate members, suppliers, developers and users, with some 6000 active individual participants, in 19 countries.

The Open Group has been working for some years, in the development of standards and service oriented architecture approaches.

JISC announced the formation of a Enterprise Working Group, in the short term, to evaluate the benefit of developing Enterprise Architectures for the education and research community.