A research related information integrated management system for research activities support

摘要

In the research activity, it is an important task to classify and to arrange information which includes research papers, presentation materials of the seminar, the advice from on the colleagues, and others. However, it is extremely difficult to manage these information systematically, and to ascertain the flow of the research. This paper therefore proposes the visualization of relationships among these information which is represented by a graph in which nodes mean information, and in which edges mean relation between information. It also proposes the environment supports that visualization can be made on user's individual field, and nodes of the graph can be arranged freely by user's viewpoint. Furthermore the user can fuse the visualizations made by the user and his colleagues. This leads to new information acquisition. The environment cancels the above mentioned problem, and supports an efficient research activity of the user. This paper describes the design and the development of the environment.