JISC

JISC are plesed to announce they are once again sponsoring the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting taking place at the University of Edinburgh from 8-11 September 2008.  Please come along to see us on stand number 1-2 in the Appleton Tower.

JISC-funded activity is well-represented at All Hands again this year, with a lively programme of talks, workshops, demonstrations and stand activity.

JISC keynote

Jeremy Frey, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Southampton University and a member of the JISC Virtual Research Environments Advisory Board, will be giving the JISC keynote on ' Sharing and Collaboration' on Thursday at 9am.

The JISC stand

The following experts will be at the JISC stand in the Appleton Tower:

• John Milner from the London School of Economics to discuss the UK Research Data Service feasibility study - Tuesday around coffee, tea and lunchtimes
• Frederique van Till, JISC Programme Manager, will be answering questions on the forthcoming Virtual Research Environments call – Wednesday around coffee and tea
• Matthew Dovey, JISC Research Director – Tuesday coffee and tea James Farnhill, JISC Programme Manager – Tuesday coffee and lunch Matthew Mascord, JISC Programme Manager – Wednesday coffee and lunch
• David Salmon, Research Support Unit Manager at JANET, will be available to discuss research use of the network – Wednesday around tea time

Share your thoughts

If you had to do your research on a desert island, which two tools would you take? Come and tell us on the stand, or post your answers via Twitter (www.twitter.com) or on your blog using the tag JISCAH08. The answers will be collected below. We’d also like to hear your thoughts on the following – and anything else you’d like to raise, of course:

• As a researcher, my biggest concern at present is . . .
• What IT and information management support would you like from your local institution?
• Collaboration between researchers is important because . . .
• Collaboration between researchers is a myth because . . .
• Would you prefer your computer and storage facilities to be local or national? If national, should they be provided by academia or commercially?
• The future of research data for me is . . .
• If JISC could do one thing about the issue of data management, what would it be and why

Demonstrations

The following JISC-funded projects will be demonstrating in the demo area:

Workshops and Birds of a Feather sessions

• ‘e-Infrastructure: tool for the elite or tool for everybody?’ and workshop ‘Profiling UK e-Research: Mapping Communities and Measuring Impacts’ will feature the work of JISC’s community engagement projects
• ‘e-Science in the Arts and Humanities: Early Experiments and Systematic Investigations’ is organised by the JISC-funded Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC)
• ‘The Global Data Centric View’ is organised by Professor Jeremy Frey, the JISC-keynote speaker
• ‘Infrastructure Provision for 'Grids', Infrastructure for Users’ is organised by the JISC-funded National Grid Service