Author(s)
J. Geddes, C. Mackay, S. Lloyd, A. Simpson, D. Power, D. Russell, M. Jirotka, M. Katzarova, M. Rossor, N. Fox, J. Fletcher, D. Hill, K. McLeish, Y. Chen, J. V. Hajnal, S. Lawrie, D. Job, A. McIntosh, J. Wardlaw, P. Sandercock, J. Palmer, D. Perry, R. Procter, J. Ure, M. Hartswood, R. Slack, A. Voss, K. Ho, P. Bath, W. Clarke, G. Watson
ISBN
0926-9630
Publication year
2006
Periodical
Challenges and Opportunities of Healthgrids
Periodical Number
Volume
120
Pages
336-347
407
Author Address
Ure, J
Univ Edinburgh, Sch Informat, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, Midlothian, Scotland
Univ Oxford, Dept Psychiat, Oxford OX1 2JD, England
The paper draws on a number of Grid projects, particularly on the experience of NeuroGrid a UK project in the Neurosciences tasked with developing a Grid-based collaborative research environment to support the sharing of digital images and patient data across multiple distributed sites. It outlines recurrent socio-technical issues, highlighting the challenges of scaling up technological networks in advance of the regulatory networks which normally regulate their use in practice.