June 2008

SURF en OPENProf. dr. Wim B.G. Liebrand & dr. Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen

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SURF - Netherlands

SURF is the Netherlands higher education and research partnership organisation for network services and information and communications technology (ICT).

The Mission of SURF is to

exploit and improve a common

advanced ICT infrastructure

that will enable higher education

institutions to better realize

their own ambitions and

improve the quality of

learning, teaching and research.

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Higher Education (HE) in the Netherlands

• Netherlands: 16½ million Inhabitants

• 500.000 HE Students, 18-25 years old

• 14 Universities

• 40 Universities for applied sciences

• Royal Library

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

• ~ 5 Very Large Public/Private Research Institutes

• All participate in SURF voluntarily– as a paying member– represented in SURF Board

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SURF

Innovation forEducationResearchManagement

Gigabit Internet for Higher Education and Research

Legal software for an illegal price

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Strategic Plan 2007->10

• Maintain and improve World Class ICT-Infrastructure

• Analyse and facilitate workflow of users, thereby using the so called SURF’s Method

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The Method

• Provide vision in 4-year Strategic Plan§ Scientific Technical Council

• Commitment of the institutions for HE§ Membership fees, 12 M€ /4 yr

• Executing the Strategic Plan,§ Based on Policy Considerations the Government

invests their part: in 2003-2006, 80 M€ /4 yr

• Projects are executed in those places where we find leading expertise, that is at the HE Institutes/Industry§ Quality assessment of proposals:

Scientific Technical Council§ Monitoring progress of subsided projects

Project Monitoring Committee

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Strategic Plans of SURF

1986-1990§ To a common network: SURFnet 1 - 9.6 Kbit/sec

1991-1994§ Communication services, Software Licences

1995-1998§ Administrative systems within institutions

1999-2002§ Innovation in Education

2003-2006§ Cooperation between institutions in administrative systems

2007-2010§ Service Oriented Approach

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SURFnet

• Provides the Dutch National Research and Educational Network (SURFnet6)

• 100% subsidiary of SURFfoundation

• Unique example of Public-Private Entrepreneurship§ The Envy of the World!

• Over 180 connected NfP organisations, one Million users

• Infrastructure services:§ innovation paid for 50%/50% by government and

industry§ cost effective exploitation paid for by the users

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Linking the world with light

• GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• Open light pad exchange:§ Optical networks are the central architectural element

in support of this decade’s most demanding e-science applications

§ Research should not have any geographical boundaries

§ Hybrid networks are the next generation networks:- Packet-switched Internet for regular many-to-

many usage.- Dedicated light paths for guaranteed high-speed

few-to-few usage.

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SURFnet Netwerk

10www.glif.is Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Data compilation by Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago. Earth texture from NASA.

GLIF Atlantic Map (2005)

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GLIF Atlantic Map (2008)

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Linking scientists

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SURF licences

• Negotiates Licenses for Higher Education and Research

• Currently: over 100 ICT suppliers

• Slogan: § legal software § for an illegal price

• All individual institutions

• All individual users [staff and students!!] at work and at home

• In the Netherlands and Belgium

• For a complete range of ICT services

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Initiator of innovation

• ICT and Education

• ICT and Management

• ICT and Research

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ICT and Education

• Student, teacher, learning

• Vision SURF§ ICT-HE should match the environment students use

outside the HE-walls§ Sustainability, reusability, and flexibility are key§ More emphasis for implementation of ‘proven’

practices§ Recognize and honor ‘cultural’ differences§ Improve Study-Success: NAP

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ICT and Management

• Business processes, Administration

• Vision SURF§ The user-workflow defines the service based

applications that define the Information Architecture.§ Security, Identity-management, Trust Federations,

Confederations are key§ Efficiency and effectiveness will increase using broker

systems on a national level for - Teaching Quality Information, Studychoice123- Enrollment, and Student progress, Studielink

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• Scholarly communication

• Vision SURF§ Access to results of fundamental and applied research

will become more and more crucial§ Priority is to achieve a communal infrastructure to

facilitate ‘collaboratories’, SURFshare

ICT and Research

SHARE data

text

2007-2011

2003-2006

data

DARE text

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SURF and OPEN

• Vision SURF § Higher impact through co-operation of stakeholders§ Higher impact by sharing the results § Sharing of knowledge is multiplying knowledge § Interoperability is key

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SURF and OPEN

Open

Methods

Open

Access

Open

Source

Software

Open

Standards

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SURF and OPEN

• Interoperability through Open Standards

• SURF strives to apply open standards (if available) and to promote their use.

• Open standards simplify co-operation and prevent dependence on suppliers.

• If no open standards are available, SURF helps develop them.

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SURF and OPEN

• SURF and Open Standards

§ Question and Test Interoperability: IMS-QTI

§ Open Archive Initiative for Repositories- Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: OAI-PMH- Object Re-use and Exchange: OAI-ORE

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SURF and OPEN

• Software development in SURF projects always OSS

• Software procurement OSS under conditions§ Not just a code dump … § Active community§ Well documented

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SURF and OPEN

Open source products of SURF§ A-Select: for authentication of users in a web environment § SecureW2: a client for TTLS, a wireless security protocol§ Surfed: an intrusion detection system § AIRT: a web-based system for incident tracking§ SURFflow: analyses and orders traffic data§ TL1 toolkit: a software suite for the TL1 command language § Meresco: a platform for collecting, combining, and

distributing metadata§ VP-x (under development): video middleware for

access to a video platform

CD-rom Bundle of Open Source Software

Coming soon!

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SURF and OPEN

• Open Methods and Models§ ITIL for Helpdesk§ PRINCE2 for project management§ TOGAF for architecture à Archimate à e-Framework

www.e-framework.org

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SURF and OPEN

• Open Access to knowledge§ Research:

- Publication- E-Thesis / Dissertation (PhD)- Enhanced publication (datasets, multimedia)- Virtual Research Environment

§ Education:- Learning material (complex objects)- Thesis (bachelor, master) - Video lecture

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TUD

RUL

RU

LOREnetLearning materials

UT

DAREnet / NARCISPublications

E-Thesis

EU

TUVU UvA UvT

Repository Services

UU

HBO KennisbankPublications

Theses

SharekitSaxion

Avans

HR

CHE Fontys Windesheim

HU

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TUD

RUL

RU

LOREnetLearning materials

UT

DAREnet / NARCISPublicationsDissertations

EU

TUVU UvA UvT

Repository Services

UU

HBO KennisbankPublications

Theses

SharekitSaxion

Avans

HR

CHE Fontys Windesheim

HU

Meresco(OSS)

Fedora(OSS)

OAI-PMH(OS)

E-Framework(OM)

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LOREnet

Presentation

Services

Data

Triple L LOREnet SURFmedia

Triple L SURFmediaHE

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DAREnet à NARCIS

• PRINTscreen van NARCIS

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HBO Kennisbank

• PRINTscreen

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Intellectual Property

• SURFdirect for all you need to know about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)§ Accessibility of scientific information§ Digital publication and digital archiving§ Digital learning environments§ Streaming media

• Background information about Licences:§ Creative Commons§ License to Publish§ License to Deposit§ License to Use

• http://creativecommons.nl/

• http://www.surffoundation.nl/direct

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Open Access

• Access to knowledge, information, and data is essential in higher education and research. Their use is the basis for§ the transfer of knowledge (teaching) and § knowledge generation (research).

June 2008

SURFThank You