Virtual research environments co‐creation: The D4Science experience
AbstractVirtual research environments are systems called to serve the needs of their designated communities of practice. Every community of practice is a group of people dynamically aggregated by the willingness to collaborate to address a given research question. The virtual research environment provides its users with seamless access to the resources
Assante M +13 more
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Virtual Machines and Networks - Installation, Performance Study, Advantages and Virtualization Options [PDF]
The interest in virtualization has been growing rapidly in the IT industry because of inherent benefits like better resource utilization and ease of system manageability.
Ali, Ishtiaq, Meghanathan, Natarajan
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Spatio-temporal changes in the causal interactions among Sustainable Development Goals in China
Extensive efforts have been dedicated to deciphering the interactions associated with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, these developments are hampered by a lack of efficient strategies to avoid beneficial synergies being offset by harmful ...
Min Cao +14 more
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A Representation Method for Complex Road Networks in Virtual Geographic Environments
Road networks are important for modelling the urban geographic environment. It is necessary to determine the spatial relationships of road intersections when using maps to help researchers conduct virtual urban geographic experiments (because a road ...
Peibei Zheng +5 more
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Deploying general-purpose virtual research environments for humanities research [PDF]
Several virtual research environments (VREs) have been developed to address specific tasks or application domains. Building on the experiences and use cases coming out of these projects, this paper addresses the creation of more general-purpose VREs for the humanities, which move beyond specific, focused tasks, and instead provide services and ...
Blanke T +4 more
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Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives
We describe an implementation of the Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) standard that allows for the exchange of biodiversity information contained within the Scratchpads virtual research environment with external collaborators.
Ed Baker, Simon Rycroft, Vincent Smith
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On-demand virtual research environments using microservices
The computational demands for scientific applications are continuously increasing. The emergence of cloud computing has enabled on-demand resource allocation. However, relying solely on infrastructure as a service does not achieve the degree of flexibility required by the scientific community. Here we present a microservice-oriented methodology, where
Capuccini M +7 more
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Achieving success in collaborative research: the role of virtual research environments [PDF]
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
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Editorial. Virtual research environments [PDF]
PurposeThis editorial aims to introduce a special issue of Library Hi Tech on “Virtual research environments: issues and opportunities for librarians”. It defines the concept of the virtual research environment (VRE), describes its relationship both to the virtual learning environment and to Web 2.0, and proposes that librarians play a central role in ...
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Virtual Research Environments Ethnography: a Preliminary Study
Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways and Virtual Laboratories are systems aiming at serving the needs of their designated communities of practice by providing them with a working environment for performing their tasks. These systems have been proposed and exploited in diverse application domains and scopes ranging from education to ...
Arezoumandan M +5 more
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