A scoping workshop
Thursday 14 January 2010: British Library Conference Centre, London
Hosted by the Environment Research Funders’ Forum at the British Library, this stakeholder scoping workshop explored a coordinated approach to meeting funder and user needs for information in a complex digital environment. The workshop aimed to reach a shared understanding of where overlapping initiatives have got to; improve understanding of user needs and clarity about future options.
This workshop brought together around 30 experts with responsibility for managing and disseminating the outputs from a broad range of environmental research and observation. The outputs of the workshop will help to inform the information strategies of the research-funding organisations.
The workshop sought to answer:
- Who are the different users of research outputs and what are their needs?
- What kind of service could best suit the needs identified?
- Is there a need for a coordinated, collaborative service for the environmental science domain?
- What scope of subject areas and information types would be realistic?
- What are some of the political, legal, technical, social and economic issues affecting the scope of a coordinated service?
- What existing initiatives exist; is provision fragmented and are there gaps?
- What can we learn from stakeholder experience?
- Is there a business case and the collective will to take such a project forward?
Related reports
ERFF report no.3: Using research to inform policy: the role of interpretation
ERFF Environmental Research database
