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AB - Data Science Journal, Volume 12, 10 August 2013 VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS: AN OVERVIEW AND A RESEARCH AGENDA Leonardo Candela*, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) “Alessandro Faedo”, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy Email: leonardo.candela@isti.cnr.it, {donatella.castelli, pasquale.pagano}@isti.cnr.it ABSTRACT Virtual Research Environments are innovative, web-based, community-oriented, comprehensive, flexible, and secure working environments conceived to serve the needs of modern science. We overview the existing initiatives developing these environments by highlighting the major distinguishing features. We envisage a future where regardless of geographical location, scientists will be able to use their Web browsers to seamlessly access data, software, and processing resources that are managed by diverse systems in separate administration domains via Virtual Research Environments. We identify and discuss the major challenges that should be resolved to fully achieve the proposed vision, i.e., large-scale integration and interoperability, sustainability, and adoption. Keywords: Virtual Research Environment, Scientific Gateway, Digital Library, Data Infrastructure 1 STATE OF THE ART A recent study promoted by The Royal Society in cooperation with Elsevier reviewed the changing patterns of science and scientific collaborations and confirmed that science is increasingly global, multipolar, and networked (Llewellyn Smith, Borysiewicz, Casselton, 
TI - Virtual Research Environments: An Overview and a Research Agenda
JF - Data Science Journal
DO - 10.2481/dsj.grdi-013
DA - 2013-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/virtual-research-environments-an-overview-and-a-research-agenda-A8J0WakKBq
DP - DeepDyve
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