VRE Starters Kit

This is www.vrestarterskit.nl

About the VRE Starters Kit

The VRE Starters Kit offers a collaborative forum for institutions who are in the process of implementing Virtual Research Environments (VRE). The information that can be found on these pages was collected and produced in a national project  in which eight Universities have participated, and which was funded by SURFfoundation.

Contents of this VRE Starters Kit 

• General information
  • What is a VRE?
  • VRE functionalities
  • Benefits
• Organisational issues
  • Workflow for the implementation, deployment and deletion of VREs
  • Identification of user requirements
  • User research
  • Organisation of seminar
  • Organisation of workshop
  • Business Model Development
  • Role of the library
  • Social and cultural factors
• Technology
  • Platforms
  • User manuals
  • Configuration Manual 
  • VRE Toolkits for SharePoint
• Good Practices

The VRE Starters Kit was developed by institutions which use the SharePoint software as a platform for their virtual research environment. For this reason, the focus in the section on technology currently focuses on issues related to SharePoint.