OMII-UK is an open-source software organisation for the UK research community.
OMII-UK have a number of roles within the UK research community: helping new users get started with E-research, providing the software that is needed and developing, that software if it does not exist.
OMII-UK is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jisc.
OMII-UK is a collaboration between three bodies: The OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) started at the University of Southampton in January 2004.
In January 2006, the Southampton group joined forces with the established myGrid and OGSA-DAI projects to form OMII-UK - an integral part of the UK e-Science programme.