Abstract
Computer-based research plays an increasingly important role around the world today. While more and more people are benefiting from research projects, they are not all well supported by advanced information and communication technologies (ICT). Information technologies have gradually been adopted by researchers, for example through digital library services, computational, and data grids, but most researchers still rely heavily on “traditional” technologies such as e-mail and telephone as their principal collaboration tools. In this chapter, we will share our recent experiences in the area of Web-based virtual research environments (VREs), which aim to provide researchers with a pervasive collaborative working environment enabling them to work together more efficiently in their daily activities to solve research “grand challenges.” We first give some background and current status of VREs and then illustrate our experience in several VRE-related projects. Finally, we discuss the future of VREs and summarize the chapter.
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Interdisciplinary challenges in research today require increasingly cooperation among researchers. The demand for building up Virtual Research Environments (VRE) becomes more and more urgent than ever before. Built on top of web, VRE systems aim at supporting research activities with much more efficient methods for sharing data and knowledge bases. In this paper, we present our recent work on development of a general-purpose VRE system by extending Sakai, an advanced collaboration and learning platform, with tools for accessing Microsoft Exchange Server through WebDAV, integrating existing grid tools to access remote computing and data grid resources via Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), and managing documents to help organising workshops and conferences
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