Living in the time of abundance of information, publications, and social networks is a great opportunity for software engineering researchers. They can find much information about many projects, various relevant publications, and other researchers who did a work on a related topic. Yet, availability of (open source) software freely/publicly available is a great convenience for many. All this definitely opens up many exciting opportunities for a higher-quality and more creative research. However, this wealth causes another (bigger) challenge– how to manage and comprehend all that data and interactions and be able to contextualize the data to the research needs at hand? In this talk, we will discuss a need for the development of new-generation personal information management systems for software engineering research. The key requirement is ubiquitous access, delivery and publishing of research data from “anywhere and anytime.” Through a more organic integration of software engineering tools, publication sources, collaborative and community research tools, researchers should be able to able to build their own personal research environments, which satisfy their personal needs, preferences, formal obligations, and life-long objectives. To illustrate some promising directions for personal research environments, we will discuss different examples built on principles of the Social Web, the Semantic Web, technology-enhanced learning, and computer-supported cooperative work.

1. Personal Information Management for Software Engineering Researchers Dragan Ga šević Athabasca University Email: dgasevic@acm.org

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4. Writing Retrieval Bookmarking

5. Writing Retrieval Collaborating Bookmarking Communities

6. Writing Retrieval Prototyping Bookmarking Versioning Tracking Analyzing Sharing/Reusing Collecting Collaborating Communities

7. Writing Retrieval Peer-Review Presenting Prototyping Bookmarking Versioning Tracking Analyzing Sharing/Reusing Collecting Collaborating Communities

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12. CORAAL http://coraal.deri.ie:8080/coraal/

13. sClippy http://sclippy.semanticauthoring.org

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29. Linked Data SPARLQ end points They enable data mash-ups

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40. Thank you! Questions?