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• To identify gaps and duplication within the current provision (with reference to JISC portal and other relevant activity) therefore to identify potential areas for network and possibly synergies that could offer a more holistic approach than currentlyavailable.

16:00-16:40 - Derek Sergeant (EVIE, Leeds) What Real Researchers Want (from their Institutional Environment)

11:40-12:20 - Peter Millington (OpenDOAR, Nottingham) title tba

12:00-13:00 - Lunch Lancaster House Hotel

16:40-17:20 -

17:20-18:00 -

9:20-10:00 - Rob Allan (CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory) JISC ITT Report

10:00-10:40 -

10:40-11:00 - Coffee

15:30-16:15

16:15-17:00

Hotel Check-in

10:15-11:00

11:00-11:30 Coffee

e-Research Questionnaire

Before attending the workshop, please could you consider the questions posed in the attached questionnaire.

Please could you also share the questionnaire around your research group, or the people you support in their research. We would like to collect as many respoenses as possible to add to the evidence we report back to the JISC regarding the needs of e-researchers.

As we haven't had time to set this up in any other way - please open the document (from clicking the link below), save, complete, and then email your response to Caroline Ingram - email address in the document introduction. Thanks!

• researchsurveyshort1.doc: e-Research survey

Speakers

Times will be allocated later.

Rob Allan (CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory) JISC ITT Report

Ann Apps (MIMAS, Manchester) IESR: A Registry of Collections and Services

Simon Coles (Chemistry, Southampton)

David Giaretta (CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Using unfamiliar data - the link between e-Research, Portals and Preservation

Catherine Jones (CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) CCLRC's Institutional Repository: past, present and future

David Shotton (Zoology, Oxford) BioImageWeb: An interoperable resource registry for biological images available from institutional repositories, on-line journals and research collections

Free Workshop: Digital Repositories, e-Research and Portals

12:00-16:00 hrs on the 6th Sept and 09:30-16:00 on the 7th Sept

The main aim of this workshop is to explore the relationship between digital repositories, e-Research and Portals in the UK with a view to articulating e-infrastructure gaps and short term requirements. The hosts will report on the JISC ITT: JISC Information Environment Portal activity - supporting the needs of e-Research, see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_portaleresearch, a study they are undertaking for JISC. The aims and objectives of the study are:

• To scope the requirements of e-research within the area of resource discovery withreference to portal type services and tools.
• To identify gaps and duplication within the current provision (with reference to JISC portal and other relevant activity) therefore to identify potential areas for newwork and possibly synergies that could offer a more holistic approach than currentlyavailable.
• To highlight issues and challenges that will need addressed in terms of serving e-Research requirements and in terms of enhancing portal activity for the IE more generally.
• To make recommendations for portal related activity that could be taken forward by JISC.

If you would like to attend, please email r.crouchley@lancaster.ac.uk ASAP, if you would like to make a presentation please include a title and short (200 words) abstract by 25th August. We anticipate that there will be time for up to 10 (40 minute) presentations over the duration of the Workshop.

For the purpose of the workshop, we define a Digital Repository to be either alocal institutional or a central (e.g. subject- or discipline-based) archive for depositing and providing access to digital contents. Repositories usually have a registry and search facilities via a catalogue or union catalogue with recognised meta-data such as Dublin Core. Several interfaces to such catalogues have been made and are available for research or teaching.

We define a portal to be A network service that provides a personalised, single point of access to a range of heterogeneous network services, local and remote, structured and unstructured. Portal functionality often includes resource discovery, email access and online discussion. Portals are intended for (human) end-users using common Web 'standards' such as HTTP, HTML, Java and JavaScript. In the context of the JISC IE, portals interact with brokers, aggregators, indexes, catalogues and content providers using Z39.50, SRW, the OAI-PMH and RSS/ HTTP. (JISC Information Environment Architecture glossary)

We take e-Research to be the invention and exploitation of advanced IT:

1. to generate, curate and analyse research data from experiments, observations and simulations,
2. to develop and explore models and simulations, computation and data at extreme scales;
3. to enable dynamic distributed virtual organisations, facilitating collaboration with information and resource sharing;

The workshop will be videoed and made available as a resource on the Web for future reference - see http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/Presentations.html for previous workshop recordings.

Accommodation and all meals for speakers and attendees are free and will be in a 4* hotel next to campus, http://www.elh.co.uk/conferences/lancaster.php, we will also pay reasonable travelling expenses. The workshop meeting will take place in Lancaster University, Faraday A41. For travel to Lancaster University see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/travel/travel.htm.

Workshop Programme

Day 1, 6th September 2006

11:30-12:00 - registration

12:00-13:00

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Catherine Jones (CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) CCLRC's Institutional Repository: past, present and future

15:00-16:00

Dinner Lancaster House Hotel

Day 2, 7th September 2006

9:30-10:00

10:00-11:00 David Giaretta (CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Using unfamiliar data - the link between e-Research, Portals and Preservation

11:00-12:00

12:00-13:00

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00

15:00-16:00

16:00 workshop close

-- RobCrouchley - 04 Aug 2006