Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment

Peter Edwards; Edoardo Pignotti; Chris Mellish; Alan Eckhardt; Kapila Ponnamperuma; Thomas Bouttaz; Lorna Philip; Kate Pangbourne; Gary Polhill; Nick Gotts

doi:10.1016/j.websem.2014.07.008

Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment

Peter Edwards, Edoardo Pignotti, Chris Mellish, Alan Eckhardt, Kapila Ponnamperuma, Thomas Bouttaz, Lorna Philip, Kate Pangbourne, Gary Polhill, Nick Gotts

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The ourSpaces Virtual Research Environment makes use of Semantic Web technologies to create a platform to support multi-disciplinary 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 authoring and accessing metadata within the VRE. Using evidence gathered from data provided by the users of the system we discuss the lessons learnt from deployment with three case study groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	70-77
Number of pages	8
Journal	Web semantics: science, services and agents on the World Wide Web
Volume	27-28
Early online date	23 Aug 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2014.07.008
Publication status	Published - Aug 2014

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provenance
semantic web
policies
natural language
VRE
OPM
PROV-O

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