Summary of functionality

• Key functionality within VRE

• • discovery services (compute, people, sources, events, funding)
  • collaboration tools (shared view of data objects, desktop conferencing, community annotation)
  • repository services (ingest, storage, export, control)
  • location and time-independent access
  • integration with physical environment
  • integration/interoperability with institutional and domain e-infrastructure

• e-infrastructure applied to the agreed requirements of research communities to enable research to take place