@InProceedings{weinkauf25,
  author    = {Weinkauf, Tino and Romero, Mario and Besançon, Lonni and Ahlstedt, Jonas and Berendt, Filip and Billger, Monica and Danielsson, Karin and Davies, Melvyn B. and Filipsson, Helena and Gelfgren, Stefan and Kerren, Andreas and Larsson, Emanuel and Latino, Fabio and Liliequist, Evelina and Nyström, Ingela and Paulsson, Kajsa and Podkorytova, Maria and Pirzamanbein, Behnaz and Sjöström, Mårten and Sopasakis, Alexandros and Thuresson, Björn and Westin, Jonathan and Ynnerman, Anders},
  booktitle = {VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software},
  title     = {InfraVis - The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Visualization Support},
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Luxembourg},
  editor    = {Gillmann, Christina and Krone, Michael and Reina, Guido and Wischgoll, Thomas},
  month     = jun,
  pages     = {1--8},
  publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
  abstract  = {Essentially all academic research of today relies on analysis of data from a wide range of sources. Several underpinning, and rapidly developing, technologies are supporting the analysis of this data. Visualization serves as an interface to this ecosystem of tools and methods and integrates them into environments supporting scientific workflows, effectively sharing cognitive load between computers and humans. There is, however, a gap between the state-of-the-art in visual data analysis and current wide-spread academic practice. Support for the introduction of new, improved and tailored, visual data analysis environments thus has the potential to address challenges involving large and complex data, creating competitive advantages for researchers. To fill the gap and capitalize on this opportunity, the InfraVis initiative has been created in Sweden with the mission to operate an infrastructure consisting of visualization experts, software solutions, and access to high-end visualization laboratories. Users of InfraVis are offered assistance through a national helpdesk with rapid response times as well as more in-depth projects addressing specific data and software challenges. InfraVis provides software solutions based on development within connected research groups, curation of international software and best practice, and user training in the form of courses, seminars and on-line documentation. To build an infrastructure with national coverage, we have pooled together nine visualization environments in Sweden interconnected in a nodal structure. The nodes are hosted in proximity to research environments in visualization, which enables direct access to the research front as well as to state-of-art facilities. The governance structure of InfraVis is based on the leading researchers in visualization in Sweden as well as an international advisory board.},
  day       = {2},
  doi       = {10.2312/visgap.20251157},
  isbn      = {978-3-03868-289-9},
  url = {http://tinoweinkauf.net/publications/absweinkauf25.html},
}