Towards a Mobile Workbench for Researchers
- Mobile devices as the iPhone and Android-based smartphones can be turned into useful tools for researchers in the field. The concept of a scholarly or scientific workbench can be extended by a mobile usage scenario, where the researcher takes photographs, records sounds, and performs basic metadata editing. We present the prototype and the architecture of a mobile workbench that uploads geo-tagged photographs taken by the camera of the smartphone into a digital repository. We discuss the idea of a research workbench as an integrated but loosely-coupled set of services; we show where in our solution the functionalities of a research workbench are contained or where other services can be added. Finally, we focus on the software running on the mobile phone, which is in itself a set of loosely-coupled applications.
| Document Type: | Conference Object |
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| Language: | English |
| Parent Title (English): | Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, UK, 9-11 Dec 2009 |
| First Page: | 126 |
| Last Page: | 131 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7695-3877-8 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Science.2009.26 |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Publication year: | 2009 |
| Tag: | Geo-tagging; Mobile devices; Repositories; Scholarly workbench; Scientific workbench; Smartphones |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten |
| Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |
