This paper advocates the necessity of developing a pragmatic alternative to the dominant
custodial theorization of digital curation as an “umbrella concept for digital preservation, data …

Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements
(SLAs). It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service (QoS) …

Purpose This paper aims to address the limitations of current knowledge management (KM)
models by presenting a strategic knowledge management (SKM) framework based on a …

In this article we bring together the results of a number of humanities e-research projects at
King's College London. This programme of work was not carried out in an ad hoc manner …

Most existing context reasoning approaches implicitly assume that contexts are precise and
complete. This assumption cannot be held in pervasive computing environments, where …

Modeling a regional-scale hydrologic system introduces major data challenges related to
the access and transformation of heterogeneous datasets into the information needed to …

Background Increasingly large amounts of DNA sequencing data are being generated
within the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI). The traditional file system struggles to …

Scientists employing omics in life science studies face challenges such as the modeling of
multiassay studies, recording of all relevant parameters, and managing many samples with …

Several virtual research environments (VREs) have been developed to address specific
tasks or application domains. Building on the experiences and use cases coming out of …

This paper describes the problems and explores potential solutions for providing long term
storage and access to research outputs, focusing mainly on research data. The ready …