JWork

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jWork.ORG ("Digital Science Portal")[1] is a web portal focusing on knowledge discovery topics and related software primary written in Java and scripting languages. As stated on its website, JWork is an open platform for sharing ideas, knowledge, and discoveries in science, technology, and general topics. The hosted articles and software aim to make information freely accessible and encourage collaboration among researchers, developers, and students.

jWork.ORG was founded by Dr. S. V. Chekanov in 2005 with the goal to promote "promote scientific computing for science and education". The portal is not-for-profit and does run commercial ads. Certain projects hosted on this portal require membership fees for certain advanced features of the supported programs, which go to "web services, documentation projects and user support".

The portal features user registration for posting articles and blogs, as well as links user's web pages with their software. This portal has been running until 2006.

There are several notable public software projects hosted by the portal, such as DataMelt, JPort (Portable Java desktop applications), RTextDoc (a LaTex editor), JSlovo dictionary application and others.

Publication policy

jWork.org accepts articles and blogs on various topics related to computing, software and technology. The portal accepts curated articles for publication across many topic categories. It applies a small editorial fee for formatting articles according to our standards and to verify URL links inside the content. The fee goes professional editors will check your blog, format it to a clean HTML code, properly extract and upload images to the server. The submission process is fully automated. As in 2025, jWork portal had about 100 articles.

Operation

The jWork.ORG portal is operated by the Knowledge Media Foundation (KMF), a foundation to support decentralizing web access to knowledge-based information (articles, tutorials, code examples) covering educational, academic, scientific, computing and cultural heritage. The foundation provides open access technologies and content services, digital solutions, and collaboration with knowledge communities worldwide.

References

  1. Digital Science Portal. JWork.org is a publication platform for promoting computing in science, technology, and education. https://jwork.org/