Figure 3: ARCHER and the research life cycle - text-only version
| Conceive | Design | Research | Write | Publish | Expose | |
| Tasks | Review knowledgebase Discuss with colleagues Think! |
Refine hypothesis Design Experiment/ Data Collection |
REPEAT: Gather data Analyse result Refine Hypothesis Share Ideas |
Share ideas Retrieve previous publications Write new publication Comment on drafts |
Submit article to journal/conference Lodge dataset/digital object with repository/datastore Link article to dataset/digital object |
Allow dataset/digital object to be indexed by
search engines Search for datasets, annotations and articles |
| ARCHER tools | Collaboration space (wiki/CMS) Cross repositories search |
Collaboration space (wiki/CMS) | Data collection Tele instrumentation Data storage Metadata management Data analysis Collaborative annotation Data visualisation Cross repositories search |
Collaboration space (wiki/CMS) Collaborative annotation |
Data transformation and export Data extraction and deposit Repository integration |
Access control management Cross repositories search |
| Other tools | Existing enterprise collaboration tools (email, calendar, instant messaging, etc.) | Existing enterprise collaboration tools (email, calendar, instant messaging, etc.) | Existing enterprise collaboration tools (email, calendar, etc.) | Existing document creation tools (Word, TeX, etc.) | Existing institutional, discipline and scholarly society repositories |
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Issue 51 April 2007