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ABSTRACT myExperiment is a social web site for the born-digital items arising in contemporary research practice, in particular scientific workflows and Research Objects. myExperiment can be seen from many perspectives: as a Virtual Research Environment which majors on social sharing, as “Facebook for scientists ” but without the implicit openness which is actually a deterrent to scientists, as a second generation digital library which combines a repository with a place for conducting in silico research, or as the foundation of the future e-Laboratory. 1. Background In 2004 the UK’s JISC Committee for Support of Research introduced the notion of the “Virtual Research Environment ” (VRE), a term which arose by analogy with the “Virtual Learning Environment”. The VRE Working Group stated that “a VRE should support the processes of conducting research, including marshalling of resources, scholarly discourse and publication, and the creation and maintenance of collaborations, across disciplines, institutions and countries, including support for meetings and organisational processes ” [1]. The programme has been successful in delivering case studies and deployed environments, and now focuses on institutional embedding. myExperiment, a VRE from phase 2 of the programme, distinctively adopted a Web 2.0 approach in delivering a “social web site for scientists”. Recognising a need to support sharing of the new artefacts of digital research that are poorly supported in the traditional scholarly knowledge lifecycle, and following the Web 2.0 principle by which
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