Category Archives: Virtual Reseach Environments

Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study

By Craig | Published: August 25, 2009

What is a VRE? “…a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices….” The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information [...]

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New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments

By Craig | Published: August 18, 2009

Press release New videos show how researchers use advanced technology New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released. The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE) programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up [...]

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TILE project blog and website launched

By Craig | Published: August 4, 2009

TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site: http://tileproject.org Our first blog posting includes a description of anticipated TILE functionality. http://mith.info/tile/2009/07/20/welcome/ Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available. Visit often, or subscribe [...]

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JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. Representatives from JISC attended as well as representatives from the projects that had won funding in the last JISC VRE III and Information Environments funding round. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/inf11startup.aspx The highlight of the meeting was certainly the project [...]

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Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers

By Craig | Published: July 2, 2009

I recently attended a workshop sponsored by the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) that presented some of the findings from the JISC funded community engagement and virtual research environments (VRE) projects. The three community engagement projects presented were the engage project (engaging researchers with e-infrastructure), the e-uptake project (enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure Services), and the [...]

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Digital boost for work of arts

By Craig | Published: June 30, 2009

An article in the Times Higher Education supplement about the Arts and Humanities e Science support Centre (AHESSC) here at King’s College in London. Imagine the research possibilities of being able to view three-dimensional scans of museum objects, write dance moves electronically or study ancient documents that were previously considered too damaged to decipher. E-tools [...]

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The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures

By Craig | Published: June 16, 2009

There is a lively debate in the UK about the influence of Web 2.o on eReseach and new computing research infrastructures.  The eScience institute in Edinburgh has a theme relating to this which is led by Professors Mark Baker and David De Roure. The number of Web 2.0 services and applications, widely used by Internet [...]

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