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e-Infrastructure Use Cases and
Service Usage Models (eIUS)
&
Barriers to Uptake
Matthew Mascord
eIUS Project Manager/Analyst
NGS Users Forum, OeRC, 19 June 2007
What is e-Infrastructure?
“Currently, research is increasingly carried out through distributed regional,
national and global collaborations enabled by the Internet. A feature of such
collaborations is that they are built upon an infrastructure, comprising of grid
computing software, which can provide researchers with shared access to large
data collections, advanced ICT tools for data analysis, large scale computing
resources, and high performance visualisation, among other examples.
e-Infrastructure is the term used for the technology and organisations that
support research undertaken in this way. It embraces networks, grids, data
centres and collaborative environments, and can include supporting operations
centres, service registries, single-sign on, certificate authorities, training and
help-desk services. Most importantly, it is the integration of these that defines eInfrastructure.”
- JISC Website (2007)
Previous Work – Differing
Perspectives
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Disciplinary coverage.
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Timescale
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Informing specific service
provision.
Component of research lifecycle
e.g. Resource discovery
OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group
“A vision for UK eInfrastructure”
SUPER
Newhouse, S, Schopf,
J.M., Richards, A, and
Atkinson, M (2007)
Study of User Priorities
for e-Infrastructure for eResearch (SUPER)
RIN Study
RIN mission:
“To lead and co-ordinate
new developments in the
collaborative provision
of research information
for the benefit of
researchers in the UK"
Intute Requirements Study
Wilson, JAJ and Fraser, M. (2006) Intute: Supporting the
Research Community – requirements report
Discipline Specific Studies
AHDS e-Science
Scoping Survey
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AHRC e-Science
Research workshops
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AHRC/EPSRC eScience
demonstrators
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ESRC Scoping
Studies
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Greek inscription from the island Rhodes
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eIUS: e-Infrastructure Use Cases
and Service Usage Models
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Gathering concrete evidence.
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Interviews
Focus groups
Talk aloud observation
Written up as Experience Reports
eIUS Proposed Methodology
Barriers to Uptake of eInfrastructure Services
“Why people are not using eInfrastructure like the NGS?”
Tackling Barriers
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Outreach and Engagement
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Education and Training
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Informing/influencing:
Service Provision
– Influencing Technical
Development
– Influencing Socio-Political
Context
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Deliverables of Interest
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Analysis of Barriers and Usage, State of
Adoption Report
Training Recommendations
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Provision Survey
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Gap Analysis
UK ‘one-stop-shop’
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Event Scheduling and Advertising System
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UK Repository of Support Material for Communities
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UK Support Contact System
Training Events and Material
Benefits to the Communities
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Research Community (the 'users')
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Understanding of what is available
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improved services and tools
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better training and education
Service providers
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Understanding of how researchers actually use services
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better understanding of needs
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increased uptake of services
Training providers
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better understanding of needs
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training material
Funders
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Increased engagement with research community
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Identication of gaps in service provision
Questions and Discussion
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For example,
–How
would NGS users like to be involved?
–What
–Do
do you see the benefits are for yourselves, if any?
you agree/disagree with the outlined methodology of these two projects?
–What
could the project do to effectively engage with early adopters such as
yourselves?
Contact Details
eIUS:
●URL: http://www.eius.ac.uk
●Discussion List: [email protected]
●Email: [email protected]
Barriers:
●URL: http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/projects/barriers/
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