articulating a grass-root view of research communities
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Articulating a Grass-root View of Research Communities. Dr Lydia Lau School of Computing University of Leeds UK. Evolution of infrastructures for collaboration. CWE. VRE. A. B. C. VRE vs CWE. A computer scientist’s view. CWE – collaborative work environment - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Articulating a Grass-root View of Research Communities
Dr Lydia LauSchool of ComputingUniversity of LeedsUK
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Evolution of infrastructures for collaboration
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VRE vs CWE
A B C
VRECWE
CWE – collaborative work environmentVRE – virtual research environment
A computer scientist’s view
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Traditionally: Top Down
VRE / CWE
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e.g. Virtual Knowledge Park (VKP)
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e.g. EVIE Project: Typical campus research systems landscape
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/evie Derek Sergeant, Leeds University Library
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EVIE project: Research Lifecycle
Resource Discovery
Collaboration with Partners
Research Outputs
Obtain Funding
Project Management
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/evie Derek SergeantLeeds University Library
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Issues
Assumption: Users use it as the main virtual place of work!
Reality: A number of competitions for being the main virtual workplace!
and…
• Usually a fraction of the functionalities were used
• People dipped in and out– Difficult to assemble a critical mass
– A number of ‘ghost workspaces’ over time
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Why? – a boundary issue?
• What are we dealing with here?– Valuable output and knowledge generated from research work– Need a ‘community’ to sustain / maintain the effort : important for
progressing research
Key ingredients:
researcherresources
tools & techniques
researcher
Protocols & practices
Quality assurance
community
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A grass root view to break boundary- concept of a researcher’s affinity radar zones
2 questions - the real research environment for individual researcher? - are the tools / resources specific or generic?
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Doing the affinity radar scan – an example
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Tracing the community – and what they need
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In particular, the core group of active members of the community
Future workTesting the concept by modelling a research community