Title :
Web-Based Virtual Research Environments (VRE): Support Collaboration in e-Science
Author :
Yang, Xiaobo ; Allan, Rob
Author_Institution :
CCLRC e-Science Centre, Daresbury Lab., Warrington
Abstract :
Interdisciplinary challenges in research today require increasingly cooperation among researchers. The demand for building up virtual research environments (VRE) becomes more and more urgent than ever before. Built on top of Web, VRE systems aim at supporting research activities with much more efficient methods for sharing data and knowledge bases. In this paper, we present our recent work on development of a general-purpose VRE system by extending Sakai, an advanced collaboration and learning platform, with tools for accessing Microsoft exchange server through WebDAV, integrating existing grid tools to access remote computing and data grid resources via Web services for remote portlets (WSRP), and managing documents to help organising workshops and conferences
Keywords :
Web services; grid computing; groupware; natural sciences computing; network servers; virtual reality; Microsoft exchange server; Web services; Web-based virtual research environments; WebDAV; e-science; grid tools; remote portlets; support collaboration; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Conference management; Grid computing; Information systems; Laboratories; Video sharing; Videoconference; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, 2006. WI-IAT 2006 Workshops. 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2749-3
DOI :
10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.148
