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Colwiz - Free research collaboration software from Oxford
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Posted by Gorski
Mar 12, 2011 at 01:34 AM
Some on the list might be interested in this:
From the press release (http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/110304.html):
> New free software, launched today by Oxford University scientists, gives researchers the tools they need to collaborate more efficiently and quickly with colleagues scattered around the world and working in a variety of different research areas.
> The colwiz (?collective wizdom?) R&D;platform manages the entire research lifecycle from an initial idea, through a complex collaboration, to publication of the results. It is being launched through Isis Innovation?s Software Incubator ? a new programme designed to promote software start-ups from the University of Oxford.
> ?At the moment researchers are using a dizzying array of different applications to communicate and collaborate,? said colwiz Chief Scientist Professor David Gavaghan of Oxford University. ?These might include Google Apps, Microsoft Live Services, LinkedIn, Yammer and Social Text. But because these are separate applications they don?t do everything and don?t always talk to each other, and this slows researchers down. colwiz replaces this hotchpotch with an integrated suite of tools custom-built for fast and efficient management of the research process.?