Although the title may seem a little dull, the report is rather exciting. I’ve been given a brief that includes assessing what I would consider to be some of the most useful outcomes of projects – the potential use of a development project by the wider community, the potential for technologies to be developed beyond the life of an individual project and the potential for building future collaboration between institutions based on shared interests identified during the review.

The term ‘assessment’ has connotations of an end, something that is done when the work is finished. What interests me in the assessment brief I’ve been discussing with the JISC programme managers involved in Inf11 is the joint emphasis on what has been achieved, and how that might be built on into the future. It’s inspiring to think that the projects included in this report will be used to share knowledge and develop technologies in one form or another into the future in the areas that they were working on during the Inf11 programme.

The report itself will be based on a review of final reports from the selected projects plus discussion with the project managers/staff who worked on the projects. The delivery date for this work is May 2012.