JISC

These projects are enabling researchers to take advantage of new developments in infrastructure.

These projects are using new developments in software and services to build infrastructure components to allow them to manage information from its creation to its long term preservation and curation.

Projects

Project	Institution	Description
National e-infrastucture for social simulations	Leeds University	Looking at user requirements for social scientists to more effectively use simulations based on social science data.
Neurohub: the information environment for Neuroscientists	University of Oxford	Working with expert research groups in the field of neuroimaging to ensure that the diverse equipment and environments have some level of interoperability.

What is being produced?

The projects will focus on user requirements in the first instance and after that will produce software and services to enable interoperability and satisfy the user requirements.

Both projects will have a strong focus on using or developing appropriate standards and metadata models.

Relationship to other strands or programmes?

• The projects are relevant to the preservation strand of projects in this programme as they need to address long term preservation of the content
• They are also related to the repository projects in this programme
• The shared services strand of projects is relevant as it is dealing with interoperability
• The virtual research environment projects are closely related to these projects
• The projects in the research data management programme will be working in similar areas

Who’s involved?

These projects have been designed to get people across the institution working together so there are a wide range of people involved, including: researchers, librarians, IT specialists and information specialists.

Find out more

• Information environment team blog will report latest developments
• The project websites will provide details of outputs and other relevant information
• Follow Neil Grindley, the programme manager on Twitter