The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have confirmed the projects and partners appointed to deliver a national cloud infrastructure and supporting services. The move follows a £12.5 million fund in February that aims to help universities and colleges deliver better value for money by working together more effectively.
JANET (UK) will deliver the national brokerage to aid procurement of cloud services between higher education institutions and commercial suppliers and Eduserv will provide a pilot cloud infrastructure for higher education institutions.
So that colleges and universities can gain the most benefit from this new cloud-based infrastructure, four new services will be developed to drive its adoption. A new specialist team set up by JISC Advance will provide support for procuring and implementing administrative systems and services.
The £12.5 million is part of the University Modernisation Fund. The University of Exeter will lead the Research Management and Administration System work between the universities of Exeter, Kent, and Sunderland to procure, develop and implement a cloud-based research management and administration system based on a need identified by earlier feasibility studies funded by HEFCE.
De Montfort University is developing an enterprise service bus solution to demonstrate interoperability between local and cloud systems for shared administrative applications. JISC Collections will manage the electronic resource management support service which builds on work by JISC and the Society of College National and University Libraries.
The Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh will develop data management tools and training capability. This will support the production and implementation of data management plans for universities and their researchers to preserve data for sharing, re-use and citation.
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