A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for Bioscience Researchers

In this paper we present the Research Information Centre (RIC), a virtual research environment being jointly developed by the Technical Computing Group at Microsoft and The British Library. We view researchers as extreme information workers and the purpose of the RIC is to support researchers in man...

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Published inInternational Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP'07) pp. 31 - 38
Main Authors Barga, R.S., Andrews, S., Parastatidis, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2007
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Collaborative tools
Collaborative work
Computer architecture
International collaboration
Internet
Libraries
Project management
Prototypes
Resource management
Software tools
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Summary:In this paper we present the Research Information Centre (RIC), a virtual research environment being jointly developed by the Technical Computing Group at Microsoft and The British Library. We view researchers as extreme information workers and the purpose of the RIC is to support researchers in managing the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research. Our first implementation of the RIC is focused on the biomedical researcher, leveraging commercial off-the-shelf software to the extent possible. However, the base architecture of RIC is designed so that it can be re-used for research in other domains.
ISBN:0769529925
9780769529929
DOI:10.1109/ADVCOMP.2007.14