The BiOnym Virtual Research Environment

Description

The BiOnym 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 to provide its users with BiOnym facilities, i.e. a service developed in the iMarine context to compare a set of scientific names against taxonomic reference lists including recognised ones like Catalogue of Life. The goal of the comparison is to check the “correctness” of the set of scientific names with respect to the target taxa names and possibly having suggestions for their correct spelling.

URI: https://portal.i-marine.d4science.org/group/bionym

Functionality

The main facilities this VREVirtual Research Environment. offers are:

• BiOnym: to ...

• Workspace: to enable every user to store and organise the information objects he/she is interested to work with. In addition to that, the user is allowed to collaborate with other users by sharing objects and messages;

• 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 can (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.

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