WP3WP3 - VPH ToolKit
Work Package 3 was responsible for developing a VPH ToolKit, a technical and methodological framework to support and enable VPHresearch – the collaborative investigation of the human body as a single complex system. The ToolKit is hosted online on the VPH Portal: http://vph-portal.eu/tools.
The aim of the ToolKit is to create, accumulate, and curate VPH research-related ‘capacities’ – integrating existing work, and encouraging further development towards greater interoperability.
It should be noted that the VPH ToolKit is not intended to be merely a collection of individual tools used by VPH researchers and clinicians, nor a monolithic entity fulfilling all the needs of the VPH. The latter is impossible, and the former has little impact or utility. Rather, it must evolve into a curated set of tools that are sufficiently usable, flexible, and interoperable that they can be configured and connected by researchers to provide a range of “shrink-wrapped” (practical and user-friendly) solutions for clinicians and biomedical researchers, instead of starting from scratch for each new use-case. This goal imposes requirements on VPH ToolKit development, and on the approaches taken in designing VPH tools, in order to achieve long-term sustainability of the ToolKit beyond the lifetime of the VPH-NoE.
Coordinator: University of Oxford