eReSS consortium

Investigating and building a resource to support interoperability in the development of Virtual Research Environments is no small task. The eReSS study has thus drawn together a number of partners to assist with this. The consortium members fulfill two criteria:

• They offer a global view of research developments and the associated development of supporting standards and technologies that can enable interoperability
• They offer a spectrum of sectoral perspectives to ensure all areas of research are supported through the study

These criteria recognise that research, and particularly eResearch, is a global activity. They also recognise that research encompasses many different aspects, from application use and management through to information discovery and management, and research administration. A VRE potentially needs to support all of these and the consortium members will provide an insight to the different requirements that need to be brought together.

Jim Farmer Coordinating Editor	instructional media + magic, inc.
Ian Dolphin Project Director	Head of eStrategy, University of Hull
Dr Robert Allan	Head of Grid Technology Group, CCLRC Daresbury Lab
Chris Awre	Integration Architect, University of Hull
Prof Mark Baker	ACET, University of Reading
Peter Burnhill	EDINA Director & Head of Edinburgh University Data Library
Prof Rob Crouchley	Director of e-Science and Professor of Applied Statistics, Lancaster University
Dr Steve Jeyes	Edexcel/Pearson e-Learning Manager
Prof Shoji Kajita	Associate Professor, Information Technology Center, Nagoya University
Joseph Hardin	Director of the Collaborative Technologies Laboratory, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan
Jon Hunter	Software Engineer, EDINA
James Reid	Team Leader & Business Development Manager, Geoservices, EDINA
Robert Sherratt	Head of Systems Integration, University of Hull
Dr Tim Stickland	Software Engineer, EDINA
Xiaobo Yang	Software developer, Grid Technology Group, CCLRC Daresbury Lab