How many VREs?

• What is the appropriate level of granularity?

• • one VRE per researcher?
  • one per research group?
  • one per subject?
  • one per institution?
  • national? international?

• Approaches

• • discrete VRE for defined research community/collaboration
  • generic VRE to serve bulk of institution
  • VRE framework with institutional, domain and shared components
  • • research requirements as starting point
    • but takes advantage of existing/emerging e-infrastructure wherever found
    • encourages shared services, tools, data, expertise...