SURFfoundation
has made several short video clips about the experiences of researchers in
several innovative SURFshare
project on Collaboratories and Enhanced Publications. On both subjects a
promotional video of 5 minutes has been made. Although the video’s are
spoken in Dutch, the two promotion video’s are now available with English
subtitles on YouTube.
New advances in ICT are making it possible
for researchers to collaborate virtually in many different ways. The new tools
help researchers collect and organise research data, share sources, and
describe and publish research results. In the video’s, researchers and
support staff describe what it is like to set up and work with a collaboratory.
The researchers discovered that
collaboratories are particularly useful for storing and sharing information.
Online collaborative environments can also be handy when combined with online
public information. One of the collaboratories was set up to forward certain
information from the restricted-access environment to an existing public
website.
Read more on the SURFshare
projects.
An Enhanced
Publication consists of a publication, usually a text, enhanced with extra
materials. The publication may be an article in a journal, a dissertation, a report,
a memorandum or a chapter in a book. Such publications can be enhanced by
adding or linking them to research data, illustrations, videos, audio files,
visualisations, metadatasets and post-publication data such as commentary or
rankings.
Working with
Enhanced Publications led the researchers to discover that adding background
materials to publications allowed other researchers to review and repeat the
research more easily. Enhanced Publications also proved to be useful in
teaching. Students, for example, can repeat the research described in a
publication and learn to analyse using the research data underlying the
conclusions given in the publication. Enhanced Publications can also be a
valuable tool for the general public. By linking policy documents to
publications and the research data on which they are based, for example, the
relevance of the research to society is made clear.
Read more on
the SURFshare
projects.
Kind regards,
Annemiek
Annemiek van der Kuil | projectmanager SURFshare | ICT
& Research | SURFfoundation | Graadt van Roggenweg 340 | P.O.Box 2290
| 3500 GG Utrecht | T + 31 30 234 66 42 | E [log in to unmask] W www.surffoundation.nl/SURFshare
SURFfoundation, SURFnet en SURFdiensten
maken deel uit van SURF, de samenwerkingsorganisatie voor ICT in het hoger
onderwijs en onderzoek.
