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e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

Information Environment Programme 2009-11 The aim of this programme is to improve the capacity of the sector to manage, discover and use information resources. There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to...

Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies Based on the needs of real end-users, the programme will identify areas where innovative user technologies and practices can increase efficiency.

MLEs for Lifelong Learning: Building MLEs across HE and FE The programme will explore the issues related to developing learning environments to support the seamless movement of the learner between and across sectors and institutions.

Towards implementation of Library 2.0 and the e-Framework This project will contribute to the JISC Libraries of the Future initiative and the implementation of the JISC Information Environment by investigating developments in Library 2.0 services, within...

Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) The project will take forward the Deposit protocol, developed by a small working group as part of the JISC Digital Repositories programme, by implementing it as a lightweight web-service in four...

HORUS e-Learning Management (HeLM) This project is being conducted by the team that developed Horus, an e-technology to help doctors-in-training learn in workplaces. HeLM is an implementation project, which aims to increase the range...

Joining up Organisations to Support New Engineering Pathways into Higher Education This project will explore the use of e-Portfolio and e-Portfolio-enabled services, specifically in the area of information, advice and guidance, to support learners following Engineering pathways...

BeRT: Brockenhurst e-Registers Toolkit The overall aim of the project is to provide a working, high quality software toolkit which will allow institutions to begin using electronic registration and attendance tracking without the risk of...

JISC CETIS (JISC Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) JISC CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards.

UKOLN UKOLN is a research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies.

Mimas Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester, supported by JISC and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Mimas provides the UK further and higher education and...

Podcast: The e-Framework for international education and research MP3 (Duration: 6.04) The e-Framework for Education and Research is an international initiative that provides information to institutions on investing in and using information technology infrastructure....

Animation: Introducing the Service Oriented Approach (quicktime) QuickTime Chapter 1 – Background/introduction 00:00 – 00:15 The Service Oriented Approach to linking software systems and applications is transforming the way many organisations share data. This approach...

Animation: Introducing the Service Oriented Approach (windows media) Windows Media Video Chapter 1 – Background/introduction 00:00 – 00:15 The Service Oriented Approach to linking software systems and applications is transforming the way many organisations share data. This approach...

Audio: The e-Framework MP3 Phil Nicholls talks about the e-Framework for education and research.

Animation: The JISC e-Framework An animated demonstration of the concept of the JISC eFramework and Service-Oriented Achitecture (SOA).

ASPIS Project Plan PDF document Research across the academic disciplines is increasingly both driven by and a generator of data on a large scale, the so-called data deluge. In the “big” sciences, the primary emphasis has been the...

CUCKOO Plan PDF document Core middleware services such as identity management, directory, and authentication provide a foundation for secure, manageable applications throughout an institution/federation. However, with most...

eIUS Project Plan PDF document The eIUS project aims to gather and document concrete evidence of how e-infrastructure is, or is planned to be used as a facilitator of the research process across all major disciplines. This is not...

Grouper to support Federated Identity for Virtual Organisations Plan PDF document The projects core aim is to develop a Grouper group management infrastructure to promote the formation, management of research based Virtual Organisations. The infrastructure will be used by...

iREAD Project Plan PDF document This project will provide an in-depth evaluation and demonstration of the iRODS system, assessing its capabilities and role within a distributed data management scheme and complex virtual...