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Computer-based research plays an increasingly important role around the world today. While more and more people are benefiting from research projects, they are not all well supported by advanced information and communication technologies (ICT). Information technologies have gradually been adopted by researchers, for example through digital library services, computational, and data grids, but most researchers still rely heavily on “traditional” technologies such as e-mail and telephone as their principal collaboration tools. In this chapter, we will share our recent experiences in the area of Web-based virtual research environments (VREs), which aim to provide researchers with a pervasive collaborative working environment enabling them to work together more efficiently in their daily activities to solve research “grand challenges.” We first give some background and current status of VREs and then illustrate our experience in several VRE-related projects. Finally, we discuss the future of VREs and summarize the chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_vre.html

  2. 2.

    http://www.eu-egee.org/

  3. 3.

    http://it.nees.org/

  4. 4.

    http://www.versi.edu.au/

  5. 5.

    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_vre.html

  6. 6.

    eReSS: e-Research Standards and Specifications: http://www.confluence.hull.ac.uk

  7. 7.

    http://www.crew-vre.net/

  8. 8.

    http://www.myexperiment.org/

  9. 9.

    http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/

  10. 10.

    http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/

  11. 11.

    http://www.teragrid.org/programs/sci_gateways/

  12. 12.

    http://www.sakaiproject.org/

  13. 13.

    http://agora.lancs.ac.uk/

  14. 14.

    rWiki: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/RWIKI/

  15. 15.

    http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168

  16. 16.

    http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/

  17. 17.

    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3343/oasis-200304-wsrp-specification-1.0.pdf

  18. 18.

    http://portals.apache.org/wsrp4j/

  19. 19.

    http://www.globus.org/grid_software/data/gridftp.php

  20. 20.

    http://www.hull.ac.uk/cree/

  21. 21.

    http://www.webdav.org/

  22. 22.

    http://www.psi-k.org/

  23. 23.

    http://cselnx9.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal

  24. 24.

    http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/item/?item=164

  25. 25.

    http://portal.ncess.ac.uk

  26. 26.

    http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research

  27. 27.

    http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

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    Xiaobo Yang & Robert J. Allan

  2. IT Services, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Xiaobo Yang

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Yang, X., Allan, R.J. (2010). Web-based Virtual Research Environments. In: Yao, J. (eds) Web-based Support Systems. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-628-1_4

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