Proceedings Papers
Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research Agenda
Authors:
Leonardo Candela ,
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, IT
Donatella Castelli,
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, IT
Pasquale Pagano
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, IT
Abstract
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.
How to Cite:
Candela, L., Castelli, D. and Pagano, P., 2013. Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research Agenda. Data Science Journal, 12, pp.GRDI75–GRDI81. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.GRDI-013
Published on
30 Jul 2013.
Peer Reviewed
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