Current Research Projects

Advanced Dynamic Energy Pricing and Tariffs (ADEPT)

The ADEPT project aims to investigate how the information potentially available from smart meters may be exploited to the advantage of both the distribution network operator and the customer. We are looking for the best overall outcome in terms of energy demand reduction, not the best ‘engineering solution’.

arts-humanities.net

arts-humanities.net is an online resource to support digital research and teaching in the arts and humanities. Through a new collaboration between the e-Research South consortium and the Centre for e-Research at Kings College London, arts-humanities.net will provide additional services and support for e-Research South member organizations, and greater visibility for projects using e-Science tools and methods in the arts and humanities at e-Research South member organizations. These services will provide more information to users and make e-Research South activities in the arts and humanities more visible. This information will be delivered via a set of dynamic web- based resources.

CLAROSnet

CLAROS is a link data project that supports the federation of digital collections from research groups and museums across Europe. It has incorporated some leading-edge vision research to enable a unique search and user interface. eResearch South has provided pump-priming support for the CLAROSnet project and has supported the server that enables the project. We have submitted a number of proposals to JISC and the EU to support the project but as yet have not been successful.

High Performance Computing Technologies for Smart Distribution Network Operation (HIPErDNO)

Future electricity distribution networks with mass deployment of network equipment sensors and instrumentation, millions of smart meters, small-scale embedded generation, and responsive load will generate vast amounts of data requiring near to real-time analysis. So-called cloud and grid computing will enable scalable data mining, feature extraction, and near to real-time state estimation...

Landscape and Identities: the case of the English Landscape 1500 BC- AD1086 (EngLAID)

This pilot project, trialling the technologies that will make this ambitious project viable, was achieved through a collaboration with and pump-priming from the e-Research South Consortium. The ERC grant will now enable the continuation of this fruitful collaboration.

myExperiment

The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research — in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows.

Smart Labs

Smart Labs is an e-Research South project that began under the UK e-Science Initiative as part of the CombeChem Project End-to-End Digital Support for Chemical Research to investigate the ways in which the modern digital environment can improve the efficiency and accuracy of laboratory science; a green approach to laboratory informatics. The deployment of the LabTrove VM services hosted at both NGS and Southampton, have now provided the Lab Blog service for a range of institutions.

Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI)

SALAMI is an ambitious computational musicology project. To date, musical analysis has been conducted by individuals and on a small scale. Our computational approach, combined with the huge volume of data now available from such sources as the Internet Archive, will a) deliver a very substantive corpus of musical analyses in a common framework for use by music scholars, students and beyond; and, b) establish a methodology and tooling which will enable others to add to this in the future and to broaden the application of the techniques we establish.

Supporting e-Infrastructure Uptake through Community Champions for Research (SeIUCCR)

SeiUCCR is a network which will enable advocates within the engineering and physical sciences research areas - Community Champions - to be given the necessary support and information conduits to allow them to be the trusted voice in their community around utilization of national e-infrastructure...

The ISIC Visualisation Centre

The ISIC Visualisation Centre is establishing a unique and high profile facility to deliver interactive visualisations of Earth Observation, space science and other data for scientific, economic and societal benefit. It is an integral part of the vision for end-to-end EO capabilities located at ISIC. The capabilities of this unit include the ability to integrate, explore, and visualise the vast amounts of EO data coming on-stream for scientific, commercial and outreach purposes. STFC and Reading are both partners and Oxford has been engaged in discussion about future collaboration.