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ESCAPE: Enhanced Scientific Communication by Aggregated Publications Environments
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Status: Completed
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The World Wide Web opens up new possibilities for scientific and scholarly communication. Scientists and scholars wish to make their publications available online in combination with other material. This includes such things as research reports that are available in the public domain or film clips to explain the research method to the general public. In the course of the ESCAPE project, a tool was constructed to enhance publications with other relevant information and to make it available with the publication on the Web.
The links between the publications and the other material and the description of all of this can be stored separately in a “resource folder”. The resource folders are placed in a digital storage area developed specially for the purpose. The project also included the development of an editor with which to create and edit the resource folder. This allows for a generic approach that is applicable in several disciplines. Three research groups produced resource folders and explored the various ways of utilising an enhanced environment for publications. This was done in the following three environments:
1. University of Twente: Brandaris128
The Physics of Fluids department wanted an environment for presenting the results and derived materials generated during research with the Brandaris128 high-speed camera.
2. University of Twente: Center for Risk and Safety Perception (iCRISP)
This environment is entitled “Communication with the public about flooding”. Users consider the ESCAPE tool to be useful when coordinating requests for information about dynamic policy developments. Besides use of the environment for policy development, the ESCAPE tool also contributes to explaining research and its relevance to society as a whole. This is achieved by presenting the various sources in combination and freely accessible on the Web.
3. University of Groningen: Centre for Public Order and Safety (COOV).
The environment for the COOV subproject enables fellow scholars, practising lawyers, and interested citizens to trace annotated court judgments and policy memoranda in the field of public order and safety. The various objects that form part of the environment can also be presented as graphics.
Read more in this paper: Enhanced Scientific Communication by Aggregated Publications Environments (Escape). This paper was presented at ElPub conference, June 2009 in Milan, Italy.