Research Information Centre

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All Hands Meeting, York 2011

Stephen Andrews

Products and Services Team Leader

Science Technology & Medicine

The British Library

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Our interest in Virtual Research Environments

A strategic objective to support research

A need to understand researchers and how they work

Understanding changes in the research environment

Role of libraries in supporting research in 21stC

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A VRE covers the entire research lifecycle

‘Closing the loop’ on the research lifecycle

Used this as basic structure of the RIC

Addresses the ‘pain points’ of research

Information management throughout a research project

Research Information Centre – a collaboration with Microsoft Research

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Timeline – development sprints July 2007 to June 2008

UI wireframes

Project repositories

Literature search

Funding workflow

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Timeline – development sprints July 2008 – Dec 2009

July-Oct 2008 community feedback

Project administration console

Dec 2009 v1.0 source code released

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Timeline – development March 2010 to date

v1.0 enhancements

v2.0 toolkits for SharePoint 2010

June 2011 v2.0 1st CodePlex release

RIC 2.0 Development – A Community Effort

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Example – the VRE-CI project

Collaboration between clinicians & researchers

Automated extraction of metadata into SP

Links to MRI DICOM image store

Segmentation workflows using Trident

Image viewer – zoom & annotate