As a result of running a variety of projects and services IT Services has accumulated expertise in a broad range of areas, and a selection of projects are listed below with short descriptions.
IT Services is also committed to sustaining and continuing to make available the outputs of its projects. The archived project webpages preserve pages of projects which are now completed.
- Development work for University of Oxford projects (a small selection)
- Research data managment (see also research data management webpages at UAS)
- Requirements gathering relating to the research lifecycle
- Evaluation of online resources; metadata standards for resource discovery and open access
- Intute Arts and Humanities (formerly Humbul)
- Curation of digital resources, especially electronic texts; text encoding and associated metadata standards
- Access management via digital certificates (PKI) and Shibboleth; organisational issues (including virtual organisations) relating to identity management
- Portal frameworks (e.g. uPortal) and associated technical standards
- e-Science applications and grid computing
- Via collaboration with the Oxford e-Research Centre
- e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS)
- Virtual Research Environment projects
- Federated searching and associated standards (e.g. Z39.50)
- Open source software, especially software licences and IPR, development methodologies and community building, institutional policies for software development, procurement and deployment
- XML document encoding together with tools, stylesheets and support for analysis, retrieval and presentation
Many of the areas listed above are embedded across the range of IT Services activities. In particular this also applies to:
- Development of funding proposals
- Management of distributed projects and services
- Developing and deploying open standards for interoperability
A full list of IT Services support for research projects can be seen on our site.
Sections in this document:- 1. Projects