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The UMF Programme

The UMF Programme. John Milner Programme Manager. 28 th March 2011 Aston. 28 th March 2011 Aston. Making Good Practice Easy. UMF/MRD Workshop. UMF/MRD Workshop. Background. Universities Modernisation Fund granted to HEFCE by BIS

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The UMF Programme

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  1. The UMF Programme John MilnerProgramme Manager 28th March 2011 Aston

  2. 28th March 2011 Aston Making Good Practice Easy UMF/MRD Workshop

  3. UMF/MRD Workshop Background • Universities Modernisation Fund granted to HEFCE by BIS • Part of it is £12.5m aimed at shared infrastructure and applications across research and admin/business applications • JISC charged to invest it to make savings and embed long term efficiencies in use of IT • So want BOTH savings and added value • £2.5m for admin business systems the rest for infrastructure and data management. • “Infrastructure” is about a sustainable organisational support framework with some “pump priming” for equipment, services and applications

  4. Programme elements • Three threads of work • Establish a service brokerage at JANET(UK) to develop framework agreements with commercial and sector suppliers of capacity • Fund the deployment in a SaaS model of applications useful to researchers who need good, easy to use data management tools • Fund the UKRDS recommendations for DCC in respect of data management planning and related tools and its programme to support the embedding of capability within institutions

  5. Brokerage • Brokerage focussed on cloud/virtual services to persuade institutions effectively to rent servers and storage from trusted suppliers rather than build • Will seek to give institutions the opportunity to sell/share their spare capacity and expertise • Allows the sector to access industrial economies of scale where the model fits • Target vision is Hybrid HE cloud with seamless relationship between local provision and community cloud as standards emerge and facilitate it.

  6. SaaS • Closed call to the MRD projects • 8 bids received • Aim is to have SaaS applications that allow researchers to build databases and manipulate data in a well ordered environment • Want it to be as easy to use as local desktop/server capability • Facilitates engagement with proper curation in support of data management plans.

  7. DCC • Kevin Ashley’s here so ‘nuff said 

  8. In a Nutshell • We want good applications to attract researchers to a cost effective and trusted shared virtual environment where their data will be properly managed. • If we succeed it’s good bye to servers under the desk, lost memory sticks and other horrors • It should also be cheaper (or at least better value for money) than developing custom applications on local kit, which then sits and rots when the project’s done! • Customers welcome and can apply: • j.milner@jisc.ac.uk

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