The I2S2 Project is pleased to announce the availability of two benefit use cases.
The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is identifying requirements for a data-driven research infrastructure in ‘Structural Science’, focusing primarily on the domains of Chemistry and Crystallography. A key aim of I2S2 has been to develop use cases that examine the business processes of research, identify the costs and benefits of the integrated approach proposed by I2S2, and explore perspectives of ‘scale and complexity’ and ‘research discipline’ throughout the data lifecycle. During the course of the project, the complementary but often different perspectives of researchers and central facilities in terms of benefits were also recognised as significant and built into the use cases.
The I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 1 (National Crystallography Service) traverses administrative boundaries between institutions and addresses issues of scale (local lab to mid-range national facility to national Diamond synchrotron) and provides a central service perspective of benefits. I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 2 (Prof Martin Dove, University of Cambridge) applies the approach to Mineral Sciences and interactions between individuals, collaborative research groups and facilities, and provides a researcher’s perspective of benefits.
Each use case forms the source material for the Benefits Case Studies contributed by the project to the Managing Research Data Programme Benefits Synthesis Report.