SHARE stands for Sharing Hosted Autonomous Research Environments and it is “a web portal that enables academics to create, share, and access remote virtual machines that can be cited from research papers (Van Gorp & Mazanek, 2011).” Van Gorp and Mazanek have develop this execution platform “to provide fellow scientists and researchers a convenient way to reproduce computational results of research papers”.
Authors can use SHARE to create a virtual machine that contains all software, operating systems, and data they have used to execute their research. Readers can then login with SHARE and use this virtual machine (via a Remote Desktop Protocol server) to reproduce the results of the paper. SHARE helps users and prevents them from having to install additional programs.
People who want to use SHARE will have to sign up and create an account. SHARE-users can upload files to remote virtual machines; however, they cannot download artifacts to their own computers. This is useful with respect to copyrights and licensing. Another advantage of SHARE is that multiple users can use the same virtual machine at the same time. In this way multiple researchers can inspect the same research at the same time.
The characteristics of SHARE definitely fit well to make GEM Cutter II and EuGENia web-accessible. Annotators will not have the burden to install specific programs, they will just have to sign up with SHARE.
Sources:
- Van Gorp & Mazanek (2011) SHARE: a web portal for creating and sharing executable research papers
- Executable Papers with Share
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