Realise e-Research through Virtual Research Environments

Scientists today are tackling increasingly difcult challenges. More and more advanced technologies are required to support such kinds of research activities. With recent innovations in information technology it is now possible to perform research activities within virtual research environments (VRE). In this paper we describe a Sakai-based VRE system aiming at providing an improved platform for supporting research. In addition to beneting from the existing collaboration tools like chat and discussion, our VRE system extends the Sakai e- Learning framework by providing additional functionalities for integration of existing web components, JSR-168 portlets, and managing documents. KeynWords: Virtual research environments, e-Research, Portlets, Document management

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