Achieving success in collaborative research: the role of virtual research environments

Due to various challenges and opportunities such as globalisation of research agenda and advancements in information and communication technologies, research collaborations (both international and national) have become popular during the last decade more than ever before. Within this context, the concept of Virtual Research Environments is an emerging concept looking at addressing the complex challenges associated with conducting collaborative research. The research reported within this paper investigated how the success factors of collaborative research can be achieved by deploying a Virtual Research Environment

Achieving success in collaborative research: the role of virtual research environments

Due to various challenges and opportunities such as globalisation of research agenda and advancements in information and communication technologies, research collaborations (both international and national) have become popular during the last decade more than ever before. Within this context, the concept of Virtual Research Environments is an emerging concept looking at addressing the complex challenges associated with conducting collaborative research. The research reported within this paper investigated how the success factors of collaborative research can be achieved by deploying a Virtual Research Environment

A Typology of Virtual Research Environments

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are online spaces that support communication and collaboration among scientists. Hundreds of VREs have been constructed using various configurations of research tools and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to serve many disciplines and interdisciplinary inquiry. This study characterizes a large sample of VREs in terms of the research and ICT resources they incorporate and derives a typology of VREs based on their particular ICT configurations. The four types are correlated with previous VRE typologies and disciplinary domains. Results indicate that there are correspondences, but that types of ICT configurations also exhibit complex relationships with function and discipline

Система керування грід-завданнями віртуальної лабораторії, що ґрунтується на асинхронній обробці подій

Розглянуто методики та засоби взаємодії віртуальних лабораторій з грід-інфраструктурами. Розроблена архітектура системи керування грід-завданнями віртуальної лабораторії, що грунтується на асинхронній обробці подій. Створено прототип сервісу, що реалізує запропоновану архітектуру з назвою MAGGIE – Main Architecture Gears for Grid Integrated Environment.Methods and facilities of interaction between virtual research environments and grid-infrastructures are presented. Asynchronous event-driven architecture for grid-jobs management for building virtual research environments has been developed. Prototype service implementation named MAGGIE – Main Architecture Gears for Grid Integrated Environment – was developed

User-centered development of a Virtual Research Environment to support collaborative research events

This paper discusses the user-centred development process within the Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) project, funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments (VRE) programme. After presenting the project, its aims and the functionality of the CREW VRE, we focus on the user engagement approach, grounded in the method of co-realisation. We describe the different research settings and requirements of our three embedded user groups and the respective activities conducted so far. Finally we elaborate on the main challenges of our user engagement approach and end with the project’s next steps

Virtual Research Environments for Environmental and Earth Sciences: Approaches and Experiences

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are playing an increasingly important role in data centric sciences. Also, the concept is known as Science Gateways in North America where generally the functionality is portal plus workflow deployment and Virtual Laboratories in Australia where the end-user can compose a complete system from the user interface to use of e-Infrastructures by a 'pick and mix' process from the offered assets. The key aspect is to provide an environment wherein the end-user - researcher, policymaker, commercial enterprise or citizen scientist - has available with an integrating interface all the assets needed to achieve their objectives. These aspects are explored through different approaches related to ENVRI

E-Ciencia: aplicación de la web/red social a la investigación y a la edición científica

Discusses the concepts of social web, e-Science, Science 2.0 or shared science, virtual research environments (EVI) or Virtual Environmentsscientific research (EVIC), the social web and VR

A HCI principles based framework to assess the user perception of web based Virtual Research Environments. Special issue on Capacity building for post disaster infrastructure development and management

Due to various challenges and opportunities such as globalisation of research agenda and advancements in information and communication technologies, research collaborations (both international and national) have become popular during the last decade more than ever before. Within this context, the concept of Virtual Research environments(VRE) is an emerging concept looking at addressing the complex challenges associated with conducting collaborative research. Even though concept of VRE is at its infancy, it is important to assess user perception about those, both to establish its success of uptake and future development strategies. However, to date, there is no formal method established to evaluate VREs .This paper reports a strategy adopted within an international collaborative research project (EURASIA) to evaluate its custom built VRE, VEBER, using the well known Computer Human Interaction principles