Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research Agenda
Virtual Research Environments are innovative, web-based, community-oriented, comprehensive, flexible, and secure working environments conceived to serve the needs of modern science. We overview the existing initiatives developing these environments by highlighting the major distinguishing features....
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doaj-331b1063c0ed428dae59622a70e69ea32020-11-25T00:46:29ZengUbiquity PressData Science Journal1683-14702013-07-011210.2481/dsj.GRDI-013247Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research AgendaLeonardo Candela0Donatella Castelli1Pasquale Pagano2Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ItalyIstituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ItalyIstituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ItalyVirtual Research Environments are innovative, web-based, community-oriented, comprehensive, flexible, and secure working environments conceived to serve the needs of modern science. We overview the existing initiatives developing these environments by highlighting the major distinguishing features. We envisage a future where regardless of geographical location, scientists will be able to use their Web browsers to seamlessly access data, software, and processing resources that are managed by diverse systems in separate administration domains via Virtual Research Environments. We identify and discuss the major challenges that should be resolved to fully achieve the proposed vision, i.e., large-scale integration and interoperability, sustainability, and adoption.http://datascience.codata.org/articles/247Virtual Research EnvironmentScientific GatewayDigital LibraryData Infrastructure |
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Virtual Research Environments are innovative, web-based, community-oriented, comprehensive, flexible, and secure working environments conceived to serve the needs of modern science. We overview the existing initiatives developing these environments by highlighting the major distinguishing features. We envisage a future where regardless of geographical location, scientists will be able to use their Web browsers to seamlessly access data, software, and processing resources that are managed by diverse systems in separate administration domains via Virtual Research Environments. We identify and discuss the major challenges that should be resolved to fully achieve the proposed vision, i.e., large-scale integration and interoperability, sustainability, and adoption. |
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