About
The Showcase
The primary vehicle for demonstrating new technologies exploring and allowing more effective use of the content in the JSTOR archive is the Showcase, a sort of “JSTOR Labs” site. We currently deploy ours and other collaborative projects, including our automated data analysis service Data for Research.
The team includes world-class scientists and technologists from a variety of fields, including Mathematics, Genetics, Library Science and of course Computer Science. We collaborate with and aid other researchers from the academic community and beyond - there is a tremendous amount of exciting and innovative work occurring within academic and other research institutions, we will leverage this work in order to aid scholarly research as a whole.
By design Showcase projects are early stage and may never become fully-fledged JSTOR offerings. We use the showcase to expose and assess technologies to you, our users, so that we can decide whether they should be further developed, and if so to ensure that we understand what interests you from these prototypes. The pilots and prototypes that we are showcasing allow us to quickly discover what you find useful and how you prefer to visualize and analyze the JSTOR archives. The projects currently being prepared for Showcase use data and text mining, modern visualization and analysis techniques and image processing and exploration.
We should emphasize that The Showcase is not just a place for JSTOR to demonstrate the work of its researchers, but is a place where our research partners can demonstrate new and interesting ways that explore and utilize the information in our collections. Currently our partnerships include institutions from Germany, France, the UK and the USA, and cover useful tools, techniques and descriptions of on going research in areas such as visualization, exploration, discovery and analysis of text, images and structure.
Please explore the exhibits, please comment and give feedback on the tools that are presented. If you feel you have some research or tools that would be of value to the wider JSTOR community please contact us!
About Us
JSTOR is committed to playing a proactive role in technology innovation, led by our Advanced Technology Research (ATR) team. The objective of this team is, in partnership with other researchers, to enhance, explore and allow more effective use of the content in the JSTOR archive by inventing and applying technology. This will, we hope, bring significant additional value to the communities that we serve.
