Tag: VRE
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Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study
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
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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Digital boost for work of arts
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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JISC Digitisation projects
JISC (the Joint Information Services Committee) fund a number of digitisation projects with content that spans nearly five centuries of British history. Some notable examples include British Newspapers 1620-1900 and the 19th Century Pamphlets Online. The manifold importance of digitisation is that the records are made easily accessible to scholars and the general public, and…
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Institutional repositories and data re-use for the humanities
(originally written for Arts-humanities.net) Institutional repositories have become increasing important systems to store the rising amount of data produced by researchers. An institutional repository may be university wide or subject specific. They may serve the needs of a particular institution, a group of institutions, a nation, or an entire region. Examples include the UK’s Archaeological…