The PATINA project aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research. It was awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the RCUK Digital Economy programme and will run for three years from October 2010.

Current digital research support systems take attention away from the material that they describe. PATINA will provide researchers with new opportunities to create research spaces that emphasise the primacy of research material, and support the sharing of research activities as well as results. Through recording of research practice the project will also enable you to ‘walk in the footsteps’ of other researchers, and explore how the provenance of your developing ideas links with theirs through shared objects that exist both online and in the real world.

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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