Rhiannon
This isn't going to be very helpful, but it's about the wider picture and the emerging needs for eResearch in the arts...
In the sciences and engineering, there's a whole host of eResearch tools and platforms which network together researchers across different physical spaces and even timezones. Typically, these toolsets allow eConferencing, chat, blogging, datasharing/datacrunching across digital boundaries. It's a lot about collaboration and partnership.
JISC have been at the forefront of making this stuff happen in the UK HE sector for the last few years. More about the work here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/einfrastructure.aspx
Here's a nice science sector digital workbench tool - http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Main_Page
As yet, eResearch tools and digital workbenches of the sort used by our scientific colleagues haven't yet taken off in the arts and humanities; MCG people have been pretty busy using PB-wiki and similar tools for a while, but the facilities offered by platforms like MyExperiment are way beyond this.
What we need now are some Open Source tools/platforms like this to play with in our sector. Taxonomy work; text mining; spidering; dataset comparisons; vocabulary work; semantic stuff; data visualisation etc? Could there be clues in other HE sectors as to how we might do this better, in different ways?
JP
Jon Pratty
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Hi all
I'm looking to set up a means by which a group of researchers who meet
monthly at the Museum of London Docklands can share their research and
keep in touch with each other outside of their monthly meetings.
We had originally thought in terms of a VLE but I think really it's more
of a collaboration/communication tool.
It would need to be easy to use for non-techies and free/cheap to set up
and run. I'm trying to find a balance between not providing them with
tools that they simply don't need, but also knowing that they might not
know what they would find useful until they see it!
Any suggestions for systems I should be looking into would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Looseley
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