Research Article

Using the Sakai collaborative toolkit in e-Research applications

  1. Charles Severance1,
  2. Joseph Hardin1,
  3. Glenn Golden1,
  4. Robert Crouchley2,
  5. Adrian Fish2,
  6. Tom Finholt3,
  7. Beth Kirschner3,
  8. Jim Eng3,
  9. Rob Allan4,*

Article first published online: 7 JUN 2007

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1115

Issue

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)

Volume 19, Issue 12, pages 1643–1652, 25 August 2007

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How to Cite

Severance, C., Hardin, J., Golden, G., Crouchley, R., Fish, A., Finholt, T., Kirschner, B., Eng, J. and Allan, R. (2007), Using the Sakai collaborative toolkit in e-Research applications. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 19: 1643–1652. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1115

Author Information

  1. 1

    Sakai Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

  2. 2

    Centre for e-Science at Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K.

  3. 3

    MGrid Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

  4. 4

    CCLRC e-Science Centre, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, U.K.

*CCLRC e-Science Centre, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, U.K.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 AUG 2007
  2. Article first published online: 7 JUN 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 13 JUL 2006
  4. Manuscript Revised: 12 JUL 2006
  5. Manuscript Received: 9 JAN 2006

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Keywords:

  • e-Research;
  • collaboration toolkit;
  • Sakai;
  • portal

Abstract

The Sakai Project (http://www.sakaiproject.org) is developing a collaborative environment that provides capabilities that span teaching and learning as well as e-Research applications. By exploiting the significant requirements overlap in the collaboration space between these areas, the Sakai community can harness significant resources to develop an increasingly rich set of collaborative tools. While collaboration is a significant element of many e-Research projects, there are many other important elements including portals, data repositories, compute resources, special software, data sources, desktop applications, and content management/e-Publication. The successful e-Research projects will find ways to harness all of these elements to advance their science in the most effective manner. It is critical to realize that there is not a single software product that can meet the requirements for such a rich e-Research effort. Realizing that multiple elements must be integrated together for best effect leads us to focus on understanding the nature of integration and working together to improve the cross-application integration. This leads us not to drive towards a single toolkit (such as Sakai or Globus), but instead to a meta-toolkit containing well-integrated applications. When considering a technology for use, perhaps the most important aspect of that technology is how well it integrates with other technologies. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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