Information Outlook, September 2005

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3rd EGEE User Forum

We have organized this book in a sequence of chapters, each chapter associated with an application or technical theme introduced by an overview of the contents, and a summary of the main conclusions coming from the Forum for the chapter topic. The first chapter gathers all the plenary session keynote addresses, and following this there is a sequence of chapters covering the application flavoured sessions. These are followed by chapters with the flavour of Computer Science and Grid Technology. The final chapter covers the important number of practical demonstrations and posters exhibited at the Forum. Much of the work presented has a direct link to specific areas of Science, and so we have created a Science Index, presented below. In addition, at the end of this book, we provide a complete list of the institutes and countries involved in the User Forum

INDIGO MidnightBlue Service Catalogue

INDIGO-DataCloud is co-founded by the Horizon 2020Framework Programme.Peer reviewe

Computer-aided research in natural sciences

Diese Magisterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Möglichkeiten, die der Computer den Scientific Communities bietet. Schwerpunkte sind die Verbreitung von Wissen durch das Internet, Politik, Portale, Suchmaschinen und die digitale Rekonstruktion von Organismen.This master thesis concentrates on the possibilities for the scientific communities caused by the computer. Main topics are the propagation of knowledge by the Internet, politics, portals, search engines and digital reconstruction of organisms

Pragmatic web techniques for authentic travel international

The online web portals cater information needs of different viewers. For a commercial portal like International Portal, not only the users differ, not also the mode of technology and tools also differ according to the variance in usage of information. In order to design an authenticated portal, user centered design must be adopted to develop a prototype. So the current study tries to obtain the User centered design by learning the authentic features that a traveler wants to have on a travel portal. Then the study applies the pragmatic web tools to integrate such authentic functionality on the travel portal. So the Current study intends to learn the user experiences on the travel portals by conducting a quantitative research tool by implementing an email survey method on 200 participants and tries to inquire the authentic experiences of the travelers on the online websites. The study purposes to recommend a prototype for an authentic travel portal basing on the findings of the study and by applying the pragmatic web techniques

The metric tide: report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management

This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management. The review was chaired by Professor James Wilsdon, supported by an independent and multidisciplinary group of experts in scientometrics, research funding, research policy, publishing, university management and administration. This review has gone beyond earlier studies to take a deeper look at potential uses and limitations of research metrics and indicators. It has explored the use of metrics across different disciplines, and assessed their potential contribution to the development of research excellence and impact. It has analysed their role in processes of research assessment, including the next cycle of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). It has considered the changing ways in which universities are using quantitative indicators in their management systems, and the growing power of league tables and rankings. And it has considered the negative or unintended effects of metrics on various aspects of research culture. The report starts by tracing the history of metrics in research management and assessment, in the UK and internationally. It looks at the applicability of metrics within different research cultures, compares the peer review system with metric-based alternatives, and considers what balance might be struck between the two. It charts the development of research management systems within institutions, and examines the effects of the growing use of quantitative indicators on different aspects of research culture, including performance management, equality, diversity, interdisciplinarity, and the ‘gaming’ of assessment systems. The review looks at how different funders are using quantitative indicators, and considers their potential role in research and innovation policy. Finally, it examines the role that metrics played in REF2014, and outlines scenarios for their contribution to future exercises