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What We Do - R&D in Future Technology for the Web

ILRT provides research and development (R&D) for University of Bristol and external Web projects.

Our Web Futures team comprises senior technical researchers who have been working with innovative, leading edge technologies over many years. Our R&D experience has been developed through a number of large and small-scale projects and we regularly access funding from European and UK research funding councils.

We take on projects that seek answers to questions such as:

• What does the research landscape of our institution look like?
• How might researchers and students benefit from the Mobile Web?
• How can social software be developed to assist the work of a researcher?
• How can security best be preserved in tools used by virtual organisations of researchers?

Further information about our R&D work is available on the Web Futures website.

Examples of our work:

Mobile Campus Assistant
Mobile Campus Assistant makes time and location sensitive information available to students via their mobiles and location-aware smart phones. For example, where is the nearest available PC? Where is the nearest wireless hotspot? What events are happening today? When is the next bus to the hall of residence? Which library is open now?

Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research
Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research (STARS) is a web-based resource that enables people to explore, search, play, select, annotate, tag and re-use online video. STARS is a collaboration with the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television and Watershed's dShed.

SubSift: Submission Sifting
SubSift matches submitted conference or journal papers to potential peer reviewers based on their similarity to published works of prospective reviewers in online bibliographic databases, such as Google Scholar. SubSift is a collaboration with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory and is part of the University's Exabyte Informatics Research Theme.