Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) aims to improve access to research event content by capturing and publishing the scholarly communication that occurs at events like conferences and workshops. The project is developing tools to enable presentations and similar sessions to be recorded and annotated and enable powerful searches across distributed conference and related research data. Searches will yield results within written documents such as abstracts and papers and also in rich audio-visual content, such as clips from presentations or questions asked at a talk.

Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)


Start date: 1 March 2007

End date: 31 March 2009

Funding programme: Virtual Research Environment programme

Project website: http://www.crew-vre.net/

JISC theme(s): e-Research

Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) aims to improve access to research event content by capturing and publishing the scholarly communication that occurs at events like conferences and workshops. The project is developing tools to enable presentations and similar sessions to be recorded and annotated and enable powerful searches across distributed conference and related research data. Searches will yield results within written documents such as abstracts and papers and also in rich audio-visual content, such as clips from presentations or questions asked at a talk.

CREW is a based on the IUGO and MEMETIC projects from the first phase of the Virtual Research Environments programme.

Last publication from the project: CREW User Requirements Report (PDF)
This report presents the results of initial user requirements gathering by conducting three workshops with the participating user groups, the Institute for Health Sciences (IHS), the Scientific Visualization Users and Intute. The aim is to ensure the incorporation of user requirements and determine use cases for the CREW application related to the specific research practices of each group.

The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Wales, Bangor The project builds upon the success of Iugo and Memetic by developing and integrating these technologies and embedding them in a variety of authentic research settings, including Intute, a national JISC service to provide access to web resources for research to UK universities, the Institute of Health Sciences, which promotes health sciences research in Manchester and scientific visualization research groups.