e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS)&Barriers to Uptake Matthew MascordeIUS 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 e-Infrastructure.- JISC Website (2007)

Previous Work Differing PerspectivesDisciplinary coverage.TimescaleInforming specific service provision.Component of research lifecycle e.g. Resource discovery

OSI e-Infrastructure Working GroupA vision for UK e-Infrastructure

SUPERNewhouse, S, Schopf, J.M., Richards, A, and Atkinson, M (2007) Study of User Priorities for e-Infrastructure for e-Research (SUPER)

RIN StudyRIN 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 StudyWilson, JAJ and Fraser, M. (2006) Intute: Supporting the Research Community requirements report

Discipline Specific StudiesAHDS e-Science Scoping SurveyAHRC e-Science Research workshopsAHRC/EPSRC e-Science demonstratorsESRC Scoping StudiesGreek inscription from the island Rhodes Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford

eIUS: e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage ModelsGathering concrete evidence.InterviewsFocus groupsTalk aloud observationWritten up as Experience Reports

eIUS Proposed Methodology

Barriers to Uptake of e-Infrastructure ServicesWhy people are not using e-Infrastructure like the NGS?

Tackling BarriersOutreach and EngagementEducation and TrainingInforming/influencing:Service ProvisionInfluencing Technical DevelopmentInfluencing Socio-Political Context

Deliverables of InterestAnalysis of Barriers and Usage, State of Adoption ReportTraining RecommendationsProvision SurveyGap AnalysisUK one-stop-shop Event Scheduling and Advertising SystemUK Repository of Support Material for CommunitiesUK Support Contact SystemTraining Events and Material

Benefits to the CommunitiesResearch Community (the 'users')Understanding of what is availableimproved services and toolsbetter training and educationService providersUnderstanding of how researchers actually use servicesbetter understanding of needsincreased uptake of servicesTraining providers better understanding of needstraining materialFundersIncreased engagement with research communityIdentication of gaps in service provision

Questions and DiscussionFor example,How would NGS users like to be involved?What do you see the benefits are for yourselves, if any?Do 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 DetailseIUS:URL: http://www.eius.ac.ukDiscussion List: eius@jiscmail.ac.ukEmail: eius@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Barriers:URL: http://www.e-researchcommunity.org/projects/barriers/Images copyright their respective owners: Science & Technology Facilities Council; Robert Scarth; Duncan Hall; University of Oxford; Bryan Fenstermacher; -Kj (Flickr ID); The University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Frenkieb (Flickr ID); Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford