Category Archives: research tools

AcaWiki

October 9, 2009 – 2:14 pm

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Increasing the Impact of Research Using Web 2.0
AcaWiki is like “Wikipedia for academic research” designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed [...]

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Digital Research Tools (DiRT)

February 2, 2009 – 7:09 am

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As more and more scholars grow interested in the world of digital research, this tremendously useful wiki will be one that they will tell their colleagues about. Created by Lisa Spiro, the director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University, this collaborative wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct [...]

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Virtual Research Environments: JISC VRE programme phases 2 and 3

September 19, 2008 – 8:24 am

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A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate [...]

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Text mining

September 18, 2008 – 8:23 am

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Text mining offers a solution to this problem by replacing or supplementing the human reader with automatic systems undeterred by the text explosion. It involves analysing a large collection of documents to discover previously unknown information. The information might be relationships or patterns that are buried in the document collection and which would otherwise be [...]

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National Centre for Text Mining: an introduction to tools for researchers

September 18, 2008 – 8:21 am

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: Sophia Ananiadou, Director, National Centre for Text Mining
Publication date: 15 September 2008
Publication Type(s): Briefing papers
JISC theme(s): e-Research1
September 2008
With an overwhelming amount of knowledge recorded in texts, it has become imperative to use automated techniques that can identify, extract, manage, integrate and exploit this knowledge for research and education, efficiently and systematically. Text [...]

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