e-Infrastructure

• Shared services and middleware to enable inter-institutional collaborative research

• • access management (e.g. shibboleth, digital certificates)
  • data repositories and discovery services
  • supercomputing/grid computing
  • Access Grid (enhanced video-conferencing)
  • shared research facilities (e.g. laboratory, text mining)

• Also human/organisational issues (e.g. training, virtual organisations)

• e-Infrastructure components overlap at various levels (dept, institutional, national, international)

• VREs combine applications and presentation interface