{"id":394,"date":"2011-03-09T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:22:41","slug":"is-this-the-killer-application-for-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2011\/03\/09\/is-this-the-killer-application-for-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the killer application for researchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colwiz.com\/\">Colwiz<\/a> stands for \u2018collective wisdom\u2019 (terrible name!).  It advertises itself as \u2018research management, collaboration and productivity in one place for free\u2019 and has just been launched by a group of scientists at Oxford University. They say it will help you to \u201cmanage the entire research lifecycle from an initial idea, through a complex collaboration, to publication of the results\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) has been around for a few years but they have remained niche tools.  JISC has funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/whatwedo\/programmes\/vre.aspx\">some projects in its VRE programme<\/a> mainly carrying out particular tasks or targeted at a specific research area.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygrid.org.uk\/\">myGrid <\/a>is perhaps the most versatile tool to have come out of the programme, and has spawned a number of other tools. I saw a demo once of the British Library\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/reshelp\/experthelp\/science\/ric\/ric.html\">RIC<\/a> (Research Information Centre), developed in partnership with Microsoft.  It looked very interesting as an idea, and potentially powerful,  but I haven\u2019t heard much about it recently.  I see that their website says a beta release is due in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It is of course very easy to make a large number of claims for a new software tool, much harder to deliver.  It\u2019s too early to judge Colwiz yet but its ambition is commendable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colwiz stands for \u2018collective wisdom\u2019 (terrible name!). It advertises itself as \u2018research management, collaboration and productivity in one place for free\u2019 and has just been launched by a group of scientists at Oxford University. They say it will help you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2011\/03\/09\/is-this-the-killer-application-for-researchers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}