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Virtual research Environments (VREs)

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Virtual research Environments (VREs) A definition of "subject repository" A discussion on the JISC conference site prompted me to suggest a definition of "subject repository" which I hope might be useful in discussing the place of services like PhilPapers: A subject repository is a repository of research outputs (and possibly metadata about such outputs) whose primary mission is to give end users access to all and only the research content available in a given subject. For the purposes of this definition, a subject can be as vast as the mathematical sciences or as narrow as any dissertation topic.

Of course, some services we're inclined to label as subject repositories impose subject-independent constraints on their content (e.g. open access availability). That's why I inserted the "primary mission" qualification--this allows that some SRs have auxilarity requirements which impose some limitations on what content they aggregate. Study of Documents and Manuscripts. After testing the pilot within epigraphical and papyrological communities the context of the VRE will be extended to address the wider needs of documentary and manuscript scholars working within the humanities. By deploying the VRE for use by other interested researchers the project will test the degree to which VRE tools can be re-used by other disciplines. The project will link to a related VRE at the University of Reading VERA1 supporting research in archaeology at the Silchester Roman Town.

By treating documents as artefacts with an original archaeological or physical context, the two projects will demonstrate the benefit of Virtual Research Environments in providing seamless access to a richer range of research data and tools. Aims and Objectives The aim of the VRE-SDM project is to construct an integrated environment in which the data (documents), tools and scholarly instrumenta will be available to the scholar as a complete and coherent resource. Project Staff Project Manager. The Dataverse Network Project. SysMO | Home. OpenWetWare. MyExperiment.