The iSearch Virtual Research Environment

Description

The iSearch Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. is conceived to provide its users with a working environment showcasing the IR and Semantic Web facilities offered by the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Infrastructure. The Information Space is configured to access information objects coming from:

• A selection of OAI-PMH collections
• OpenSearch providers like Bing and IRD Ecoscope
• FAO FishFinder Factsheets
• Knowledge bases FLOD,DBPedia,etc

URI: https://services.d4science.org/group/ecologicalmodelling

Functionality

The main facilities this VREVirtual Research Environment. offers are:

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• VREVirtual Research Environment. Management: to enable authorised users (i.e. VREVirtual Research Environment. Managers) to manage other users using or willing to access the VREVirtual Research Environment.. VREVirtual Research Environment. Managers are enabled to (i) authorise users in accessing the VREVirtual Research Environment., (ii) assign or withdraw roles to users, (iii) remove users, and (iv) send a communication to the current users.

Data

The main datasets and document that are available via the services hosted by this VREVirtual Research Environment. include items from the following collections:

• Aquatic Commons - http://aquaticcommons.org/
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) - www.biodiversitylibrary.org
• Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br/)
• CEEMaR (Central and Eastern European Marine Repository)
• DataCite (www.datacite.org)
• Dryad (data dryad.org)
• FAO FishFinder Factsheets
• nature
• OceanDocs (http://www.oceandocs.org/)
• Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS)
• A number of open access journals: BioRisk, Journal of Comparative Cytogenetics, International Journal of Myriapodology, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, MycoKeys, Nature Conservation, NeoBiota, PhytoKeys, Subterranean Biology, ZooKeys

Software

• (DONE) gCube 2.16.0 (July '13);
• (DONE) gCube 2.17.0 (December '13);
• (DONE) gCube 2.17.1 (December '13);
• (DONE) gCube 3.0.0 (March '14);