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Current & Former Research Projects
For a list of the Centre for Electronic Commerce's former projects visit the CEC archive web site.
C4D (CERIF for Datasets)
Posted: 15th September 2011
The JISC IRIOS project developed a demonstrator integrating research information input and output datasets allowing data to be exported in CERIF format. Input information was provided from Research Council grants systems and linked to output information from institutional repositories.
C4D extends this established platform to manage research datasets. Although research datasets are extremely heterogeneous, they have some commonality of research context which can be recorded in CERIF. This context is necessary to understand how the research dataset may be (re-)used.
This project is scheduled to begin on 1st October 2011 and is due to be completed on 31st March 2013.
DAPMAN (Dynamic Adaptable Property Management System)
Posted: 4th August 2005
This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to implement a dynamic adaptable property management system which will enable the company to break into new markets specifically the US Villa Management market and provide unique web services to a range of companies.
This project was completed on 30th August 2007, and ran for 23 months.
IRIOS (Integrated Research Input and Output System)
Posted: 16th February 2011
The main aim of the Research Information Management call under which IRIOS is funded is "to expand the community of higher education institutions [HEIs] and organisations which are using the CERIF standard."
IRIOS will develop a "demonstrator" CERIF-enabled interrogation tool for Research Council (RC) funded projects and their outputs. The RCs are seen as the gold standard research funders and lead the UK research funding arena in electronic research administration. Most HEIs and Research Organisations (ROs) are keen to work with the various RCs as a funder of choice. The RCs (through the RCUK Information Management Group) are committed to moving towards the use of CERIF as a research information data standard, and IRIOS will accelerate that usage. ROs have frequently expressed the desire to have access to integrated grants information spanning the seven Research Councils. This project will demonstrate a mechanism to provide this in a UK standard format, initially with the participation of two RCs (EPSRC and NERC).
A pilot validation exercise will trial the CERIF-based demonstrator in the three HEI project partners (Sunderland, Glasgow and St Andrews). This will enable users external to the RCs to gather and re-use information about research projects and contribute additional metadata on outputs, and, potentially, on data records relating to them.
This project was completed on 30th September 2011, and ran for 7 months.
IRIOS-2 (Integrated Research Input & Output System 2)
Posted: 14th November 2011
In the IRIOS project we utilised an existing platform for collaborative engagement with the local business community, the Universities for the North East Information System (UNIS). IRIOS produced a proof-of-concept demonstrator, which supported the import and export of Research Council data in CERIF format, and the linking of research grant information and publications together. Filtering allowed subsets of the data to be selected and exported in CERIF for use by third party applications such as Pure.
IRIOS-2 will build upon the original project in order to meet five key objectives.
This project started on 1st November 2011 and is due to be completed on 31st October 2012.
KHISBCE (Knowledge House BCE Trial)
Posted: 4th April 2009
This project is part of a larger JISC project -Collaborative Tools 4 BCE - which aims to trial online tools to support Business and Community Engagement (BCE).
Business and Community Engagement (BCE) is the strategic management of interactions, partnerships and transactions with partners and external clients.
The project aims to identify good practice, challenges, security considerations and data protection issues related to online collaborative platforms.
Knowledge House is a collaborative service offered by the five North East universities (Durham, Sunderland, Northumbria, Teesside and Newcastle) through Universities for the North East (Unis4NE) to help companies access university skills, expertise and specialist resources.
This project was completed on 30th September 2010, and ran for 18 months.
LLU (Local Loop Unbundling)
Posted: 4th August 2005
This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) supporting Qnet in their aim to move away from being a re-seller of BT systems through the in-house development and launch of new higher margin Internet/ Broadband and telecoms services. This will be achieved by unbundling existing BT products and services and placing Qnet and their own telecoms switches and DSLAM equipment in selected BT exchanges. This process of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) will redirection more of BTs margin to Qnet. In addition to increasing margins on existing products it will allow Qnet to offer more advanced services than has hitherto been possible.
This project was completed on 20th June 2007, and ran for 21 months.
RMAS (Research Management and Administration System)
Posted: 17th November 2011
The Research Management and Administration System (RMAS) is a project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to procure, develop and implement a cloud-based pre-award through post-award system for HEIs that comprises independent, but interoperable modules.
This project started on 1st February 2011 and is due to be completed on 31st March 2012.
SILAE (Servicios de Iniciativa Local en Amazonia Ecuatoriana)
Posted: 11th November 2003
As part of the @LIS programme for technology transfer into Latin American countries from IST, SILAE will support the development of energy supply infrastructure to remote communities in Ecuador.
In partnership with several organisations in France and The Netherlands, we will be providing web support for dissemination, and also establishing a collaboration portal. This portal will support information sharing and joint development of project structures between stakeholder organisations. These organisation will include electricty suppliers in Ecuador, as well as European entities involved in the supply and installation of local grid structures such as micro-hydro and solar systems, in addition to conventional fuel based systems.
A forum will also be provided to bring together investors and project developers.
This project was completed on 31st March 2007, and ran for 41 months.
SPIRE (System Performance Investigation and Reengineering Evaluation)
Posted: 12th July 2006
This is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to research on-line dynamic web system performance, robustness and scalability issues and apply this in the re-engineering of the nowEDCTM software enabling the expansion of application sales.
This project was completed on 1st September 2008, and ran for 25 months.
STASIS (Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services)
Posted: 26th March 2006
The aim of the STASIS project is to enable stakeholders, particularly SMEs to participate in the eEconomy within Europe and Internationally by researching into the fields of semantic interoperability within an eBusiness context and developing software platforms and applications which will enable this. It will facilitate their electronic trading with both larger companies and peer SMEs since it will provide both a desktop and web-based service-orientated environment to facilitate the establishment of semantic business connections.
This project was completed on 30th September 2009, and ran for 36 months.
Video Retrieval (EPSRC Case Award)
Posted: 3rd October 2006
An active field of research in the area of video retrieval is attempting to identify ways to address the 'semantic gap'. Consider that this problem occurs because low level information about a video provides a relatively crude indication of content. However, a user who issues a query typically uses natural language and even a short query can represent a semantically complex information need. This leads to significant confusion where current retrieval systems can't adequately differentiate between disparate high level semantic concepts such as 'field', 'beach', 'mountain'.
This project was completed on 1st September 2009, and ran for 35 months.
