# Scriberia brief

## Community principles

The UK TRE Community is an open, collaborative, inclusive, and accessible community, based on consensus and committed to reproducibility.

It aims to encourage open collaborations and sharing of innovative ideas to support the delivery of groundbreaking research with sensitive data across the UK and beyond. It does so through shared reproducible standardised resources for Trusted Research Environments.

Research with sensitive data needs to be trustworthy, i.e. deserving of the trust of the public and data subjects, which in turn requires trusted research infrastructure. Trust requires understanding, openness, and collaboration across everyone involved in research, including researchers, the public, and those whose jobs are to provide trusted research infrastructure.

## Background info

- Trusted Research Environments (TREs) are secure computational environments for working with sensitive data, for instance for research
- At the moment a lot of different organisations have their own TREs that are incompatible with each other
- This makes it hard to collaborate across orgs on projects using sensitive data, and also for data to be easily and safely shared for these purposes
- For the UK to be a world leading place for research with sensitive data, we need to have a joined up approach
- The UK TRE Community is an open, collaborative, inclusive, and accessible community, based on consensus and committed to reproducibility.
- It aims to encourage open collaborations and sharing of innovative ideas to support the delivery of groundbreaking research with sensitive data across the UK and beyond. It does so through shared reproducible standardised resources for Trusted Research Environments.

Website (under development): https://uk-tre.github.io/hugo-website/


## Main messages
- Openness
- Collaboration
- Discovery
- Reproducibility
- Safety and trust

- The key things we want the community to do are:
- Have a shared language and shared approach to common problems
- To achieve more than the sum of the individual parts of work project teams do
- But not have this be an individual thing
- To reuse and share solutions across the landscape
- To engage all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, operators, information governance professionals, members of the public
- Work together to make the UK a world-leading place for research with sensitive data

## Illustration ideas

We want to represent a conveying space for people (stakeholders) working on different aspects of research with sensitive data.

A meeting space for shared understanding and practices, the Rosetta stone of TREs that allows everyone to understand each other. Making the babel tower happen.

BUT we are not making anything specific, not one thing. People take out standards, code, connections and go and build their own thing. Thanks to the community everyone can build a TRE that it SAFE and TRUSTED.

Summary (?): all stakeholders building the space together, and in doing so understanding each other and taking things back "home" to their own TREs

### representing the convening space

A public space, like a city square for people to come together. Represents how the community is the space, rather than the thing.

Sign posts could point out to different aspects of it, or different "stakeholder" neighbourhoods.

A place of learning to borrow from, and to discuss. A library of knowledge, and place to discuss.

If we use a square it cannot be an empty one, but an inhabited space.

### representing things

While not focused on specific things the TRE community is about Trusted research environments. ANd these need:
- A technical environment: the code and infrastructre, the computer almots
- Governance, standards, compliance and regulation
- Public buy-in and understanding
- Operational capacity

### representing people

Everyone is affected by research with sensitive data, and at the least:
- operators
- builders
- data subject
- general public
- regulators
- Researchers and those who WORK with the data

## Inspiration
Turing DSH badge

Turing DSH sketch


UK TRE Logo

UK TRE sticker

## Colours/branding
primary colour: #3CC;
secondary colour: #3380CC;
tertiary colour: #33CC80;

## what to prepare on our side

- really think what has ot be there
- visual metaphores that we use
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