Talk:ENGAGE

ENGAGE

See- http://www.engage.ac.uk

Aims of the ENGAGE project:

(UK-based, JISC-funded run by OMII-UK SOTON with NGS)

Engage with lapsed and potential new users of e-Infrastructure

Conduct a wider analysis of e-Research technical requirements

Empower researchers to exploit benefits of available e-Infrastructure through:

- Determining detailed requirements for specific research projects
- Designing possible solutions in conjunction with research communities
- Integrating software and developing tools to address identified requirements
- Delivering and deploying new software solutions on NGS infrastructure
- Build new capacity in NGS and OMII-UK to better deliver future e-Research solutions 

The ENGAGE project comprises a broad set of tasks in order to achieve its aims; these can broadly be grouped into three phases:

1) The first part of the project will involve a set of interviews of UK academics (information gathering) - ~50 to date
2) A set of best practice information distilled from these interviews will be disseminated through the project website and used to promote ongoing discussion (best practice information) – analysis underway: see http://www.engage.ac.uk over next 5-6 months for results
3) The creation and deployment of a small set of domain focused systems which enable a new set of academics to utilise e-Infrastructure in pursuit of their research results. (new domain-specific systems) – handful of projects over next 5 months 

The GENIE proposal is one of a handful of potential proposals that may be taken forward under the third phase of ENGAGE described above. A brief proposal needs to be sketched out and submitted to the ENGAGE board with a view to runinnig during the first 5 months of next year. ENGAGE development projects should be designed to overcome specific issues in using e-Infrastructure by UK academic researchers through the improvement or integration of software.

Steve Brewer

ENGAGE meeting with Andy Price (SOTON)

Andy is coming over to us this afternoon to give my colleagues and I an overview of GENIE.

Steve

GENIE

Andy's overview was interesting and informative. We were particularly impressed with the Open University application. The key challenge is to identify a specific and named user community that will benefit from this work. Steve