Moving from project to infrastructure

CLOSER is the interdisciplinary partnership of leading UK social and biomedical longitudinal population studies, the UK Data Service and The British Library. Evolving from a project to a sustainable infrastructure presents a variety of challenges at all levels both within an organisation, and for its collaborators. The presentation will reflect on these challenges from the perspective of CLOSER and more generally within a university environment.

Areas covered will include creating structures and processes which support the long term, staff development and training, the development of software and changes in technology to support these organisational changes.

The presentation will also draw some lessons that could be more widely useful from this case study.