Peter Edwards, Edoardo Pignotti, Alan Eckhardt, Kapila Ponnamperuma, Chris Mellish and Thomas Bouttaz, ourSpaces - Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment, in Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, US, November, 2012. [PDF(local)], [PDF(online)]

Abstract:
In this paper we discuss our experience with the design, development and deployment of the ourSpaces Virtual Research Environment. ourSpaces makes use of Semantic Web technologies to create a platform to support multidisciplinary research groups. This paper introduces the main semantic components of the system: a framework to capture the provenance of the research process, a collection of services to create and visualise metadata and a policy reasoning service. We also describe different approaches to support interaction between users and metadata within the VRE. We discuss the lessons learnt during the deployment process with three case study groups. Finally, we present our conclusions and future directions for exploration in terms of developing ourSpaces further.

BibTex:

    @InProceedings { iswc2012paper-inuse-54,
      author = { Peter Edwards, Edoardo Pignotti, Alan Eckhardt, Kapila Ponnamperuma, Chris Mellish and Thomas Bouttaz },
      title = { ourSpaces - Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment },
      booktitle = { Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) },
      address = {Boston, US},
      month = { November },
      year = { 2012 },
    }

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