JISC

This project will develop a framework to allow researchers and clinicians involved in cancer imaging to share information, images and algorithms. It will achieve this by building on the Research Information Centre (RIC) developed for bioscience researchers by the British Library and Microsoft Corporation [1].
Within this project we will leverage the work that is underway in a Microsoft funded project on cancer imaging [2] and expand the RIC to include the capability to adopt and adapt imaging algorithms through the use of the Microsoft Trident workflow tool.

The collaboration includes researchers at the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), information engineers, clinicians at the Churchill hospital and researchers in the department of radiology, oncology and biology together with developers at Microsoft Corp. The resulting framework will sit on top of standard off the shelf technologies and will be developed as open source that can be used and adapted by researchers both within and external to Oxford University.

The development of this framework is very timely as Oxford University has recently adopted Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint as a groupware solution that will be implemented across the University. This project will be an exemplar of the use of these technologies in a University setting for the support of research and operating as a virtual research environment framework. The John Radcliffe information system is also based on SharePoint which presents the opportunity to consider the issues of integration across NHS and academic resources.