Wrapup slide from e-Infrastructures meeting held in Manchester, 22-8-2007

1. 2. Services or resources? 4. Funding models - sustainability Business plans 5. Motivations to use (and provide) e-infrastructure? Varies from domain to domain. Need to understand usage and provision 1. Migration to production services / incubation mechanisms (how - e.g. to SOA?) - Not just tech. Also applies to training, methods - EVERYTHING. What are the imperatives? 8. Security, authentication and trust Provision of infrastructure across institutions and funding bodies 7. Taxonomic approach (ICT Guides): ‘people who researched X researched Y’ (e.g. MoSeS - A.B.M.) 10. Training 9. Use cases - comparability e.g. tagging approach of Barriers project 11. ’One stop shop’ - where, when, how, what? (Is this linking, portalization,or … what?) 12. Community building and engagement? What is a community? 6. Modes of support - helpdesk/best practice/software repositories/tying up existing things?? 3. Generic vs. specific - replication. Why have we split the way we’ve split? What is a centre?