JISC

The Information Environment demonstrator project is designed to showcase the possibilities offered by the services and resources in the information environment. The project will engage with developers in producing useful applications using the resources in the information environment. It will provide a knowledge base for those interested in using information environment services in their institutions and will offer a focus point for communicating the opportunties and possibilities offered by the information environment.

Aims and Objectives

To demonstrate the vision of the JISC Information Environment: much investment has been made in the identification, adoption and sometimes development of open-standards, together with their implementation in community developed services, demonstrators and toolkits. This project will test and demonstrate their efficacy, at a technical level to developers, and a higher level to decision makers in the HE sector.

• Engage the community in actively developing using existing IE services: this project will encourage developers in the HE community, and beyond, to develop services and applications which utilise in some way those services currently
  offered within the JISC IE
• Realise the potential of interoperability from open standards: this project will encourage developers in the HE
  community to take advantage of the interoperability offered by the open APIs and standards used by JISC IE services,
  by developing new applications which demonstrate interoperation
• Establish a sustainable knowledge-base of experience with using and testing services within the JISC IE: the
  project must deliver a critical mass of captured knowledge, providing a foundation for further testing and development
  beyond the scope of the projectʼs time-scale
• Lower the barrier to participation in the JISC IE: the participation of institutional developers is paramount

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

• Knowledge-base capturing what has been tested, what is currently being tested, reviews, analysis and identified patterns
• Community of developers. The Testbed will provide a framework within which developers can collaborate and share knowledge. This framework will be composed of technical infrastructure, events, dissemination activities etc

• Showcase for developments demonstrating the successful use of IE services in applications