iREAD (iRODS Evaluation and Demonstrator) This project will provide an in-depth evaluation and demonstration of the iRODS system. iRODS, has recently been released to address the short-comings within SRB which relate to the metadata schemes used to describe and annotate the data. In many cases these metadata mechanisms are too restrictive to support complex meta-data schemes for complex role-based Grid systems. iRODS is now in beta release, and as part of the objectives of the JISC e-infrastructure imitative, this project will assess the impact that the new features and functions within iRODS will have on the UK e-Science community.