NDLI: The NCeSS Portal - A Web 2.0 Enabled Collaborative Virtual Research Environment for Social Scientists

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xiaobo Yang Allan, R. Finch, J.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: STFC e-Sci. Centre, Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK (Xiaobo Yang) \|\| Nat. Centre for e-Social Sci., Manchester, UK (Finch, J.) \|\| STFC Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK (Allan, R.)
Abstract	In this paper, we are going to discuss a Sakai-based virtual research environment (VRE) - the NCeSS (National Centre for e-Social Science) Portal, for research scientists to tackle today's ever complex challenges. This portal is being developed for social science community as part of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) e-Infrastructure Project. In particular we will investigate how Web 2.0 tools help scientists carry out their everyday research activities. Furthermore, with support from leading IT companies like Google and Yahoo!, it is nowadays possible to easily make use of the huge amount of data exposed by them for example the geographical data. This greatly enhances the capability of today's collaborative virtual research environments.
Starting Page	507
Ending Page	508
File Size	259237
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769534015
DOI	10.1109/SKG.2008.84
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-12-03
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Web 2.0 Mashups Collaborative tools Environmental economics Councils Collaboration Information services collaboration Virtual research environment Collaborative work Internet Web sites Portals
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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