Research3 2010-05

Research3 2010-05

Contents

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Introduction

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People

Participants

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2010-05-12 Notes

General conversation and Feedback

  • Linked data and problems with definition
    • Issue with iterative and extreme development as reliance on URIs is established
    • How to get the structure of data about all things right first time?
    • Definitions and things change over time
    • We should always define things with a scale that does not call out to everything
  • Jun Zhao
  • Drawing together teaching and research
  • Impact and research evaluation
  • Provenance is key
  • Moving from open source to open development
  • Teaching
    • Importance of group working and collaboration
    • For dissertation mentoring it is important to get student to think about publication if they have not done this already
    • Some students are perhaps over focussed on what grade they get
      • It is more important to learn and know how to do something next time than get a good grade right?
  • Blogging and communication
    • It can be hard work to keep a blog up to date
      • Practice surely helps
      • Progress can be slow if it takes too long to blog about something
        • This is a common documentation issue
  • Interact using microblogging in meetings
    • We are still perhaps lacking in our organisation of some e-Science meetings
      • Not providing enough opportunity to collaborate with the outside world
    • It might help to have live streaming video and open microblog organisation
    • People should be able to table and answer questions
      • It could be the role of session chairing to filter this to ensure only appropriate feedback is presented
        • This might be especially important if there is a feedback screen on view to the cameras
  • It used to be about getting the data, now it is about processing the data

Liquid Publication

MyExperiment

Astronomical Web 2.0

  • Roy Williams
  • Sky alert system
    • external link: http://www.skyalert.org/
    • Identifying where you get something different to usual in pictures of the sky
    • This is a raster data analysis task I would like to apply grids to
  • Open event portfolio
  • Worldwide telescope
  • Virtual Astronomical Observatory has been funded :-)
  • Arduino
  • Sensor feeds
  • Citizen science
    • Using people to clean up data
  • Feedback
    • Haha Big Bang iPhone App
      • Hey girlfriend watch this supernova that has just gone off
        • As good romantically as watching the sky and seeing a shooting star?
    • Tracking provenance of annotations
      • Recording when a record was made an which user made it is key

LinkSphere

  • Hugo Mills
  • Connecting researchers and their data
  • Promoting serendipity
  • Feedback
    • How to designing a user interface when it is unclear how the data is to be used?
      • Work iteratively
      • Will there be a single user design that suits all users?
      • Customisable user interfaces…

Bibliography 2.0

  • Duncan Hull
  • Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
    • EBI
      • A data hub for bioinformatics in Europe
  • Economics and "Freakonomics"
    • This applies to science too :-)
  • In general, scientists are not using the Web as well as they could
    • This is a shame as the Web was invented by scientists
  • Feedback
  • How to web2.0 my blog?
    • I have a section of my daily blog for my browsing/reading
      • This is like a bibliography
    • I want to process this structured data to import into social tools like citeulike
      • I wonder when to bite the bullet and do this and what is the easiest way…
    • I used to use social bookmarking tools more inputting my reading, but at some stage I stopped and simply recorded when and what I read in my blog
      • I think I believed that one day (before now) I would get around to processing this blog
        • This was my main aim as I set of to Dev8D 2010 but I got busy doing other things…

Using the Web as the Platform for Sharing and Consuming Biomedical Data

  • Jun Zhao
  • Linked Data
  • Uniform Resource Identifier
    • First time I recognised "Uniform"
      • Had always thought of this as "Universal"
      • "Uniform" is perhaps better :-)
  • Feedback
    • Not created ontology for drugs
    • Avoiding blank nodes
    • Tools that interpret existing data as linked data?
    • How to get my simulation data as linked data?
      • We agreed to talk about this…
    • Asked to work with Jung to get data about
      • The locations of all schools in the UK
        • Details about these schools:
          • Public
          • Private
          • Age/Gender profile of pupils
          • Residential Age/Gender profile
            • Staff and students
    • Dave De Roure
      • Supply has come before the demand in LinkedData

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2010-05-11 Notes

General conversation

Feedback Session

  • Dan Katz asks: What technology do we want to play with that we haven't looked at much yet?
    • Erlang
    • Android
    • GoogleWebToolkit
  • What is going on with Googlewave?
  • What is happening with Terragrid?
    • Restful
  • In terms of Web 2.0 others were more
  • The book
    • Publisher Nova
      • What happens with copyright?
      • We all want to put our chapters on-line too linked via our own web pages…

GISolve 2.0

  • Shaowen Wang
  • Geospatial Problem Solving
  • ArcGIS is mainly a WIMP
  • Computationl Intensive Geographical Information Analysis
    • Heuristic search
    • Simulation
    • Optimization
    • Spatial statistics
  • 5 Years of development
  • Application of agent based model applied to elk migration
  • Technology
  • Feedback
    • How to share results?
    • System is now being user driven
    • I logged into the portal :-)
    • Again this looks very relevant to what I'm thinking to do…

Gravitational Wave Physics

  • Gabrielle Allen
  • Cactus framework
    • external link: http://www.cactuscode.org
    • I heard about this before…
    • Thorns and ways of handling simulation models running on distributed resources
    • httpd thorn
    • Twitter thorn
    • Flickr thorn
    • Dropbox
    • Wordpress
    • YouTube
  • Einstein Toolkit
  • Feedback
    • Use of Maven?
      • Only for Java
      • Hugo has had a poor experience of Maven
    • Very relevant to what I was talking about
      • This community has been doing the type of collaborative simulation I am moving towards for 20 years
    • There are now cloud services that offer High Performance Compute resource

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LinkSphere

  • Shirley Williams
  • Linking Researchers and Data
  • Social Network for Researchers
  • Prototype based on Drupal
  • Groundswell Social Technical profile
    • Creators
    • Critics
    • Collectors
    • Joiner
    • Spectators
    • Inactive
  • Researcher Survey
    • What people use, why and how
    • Most are not using Web 2.0 tools
    • Few are contributers
  • User Survey/Feedback
    • Concerns about failure
    • Community
    • Why use this over LinkedIn?
  • Feedback
    • Who is the walled garden aimed at?
      • Primarily researchers at Reading
    • 2 types of users
      • Those not using any social network
      • Those already using social networking
    • Getting data in and out of the walled garden
    • Sign up using existing social networking Facebook, LinkedIn etc
      • Facebook connect
      • Opensocial API?
    • Other systems
      • SciSpace
      • BiomedExperts
      • Academia
      • eScience Central
        • MyExperiment with workflow enactment
    • What's in a name?
      • What is a virtual observatory
      • What does the name "LinkSphere" intuitively give people as a mental model?
    • My feedback microblog

NG-Embryo

GENESIS

  • Andy Turner
  • external link: Powerpoint presentation slides
  • The delivery seemed OK :-)
  • Feedback
    • I should use Wordpress for my blogging and make it more Web 2.0?
      • I don't want to break the links I had before by moving any content
      • I want to have one blog
        • Currently I have two, so moving to three is a bit of a barrier…
      • I wanted to work on resolving this at Dev8D 2010 but did not get around to it
    • Construct
    • Clay Shirky book on Crowds
    • Shirley Williams suggested a social networking game for the aged

Computational Chemistry

Introduction: The impact of Web 2.0 on Applications

  • Mark Baker
  • Third in a series of workshops
  • We are going to write a book :-)

Introductions

  • Dan Katz got us communicating as a group
  • We established #research3 as the tag for this meeting
  • There are 16 of us from various different academic backgrounds :-)

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Microblogging

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Preparation

  • 2010-05-11 Uploaded my presentation slides
  • 2010-05-10 Met Rufus Pollock by chance on the train and after a chat we wondered about meeting up with Jo Walsh while in Edinburgh so I sent an email :-)
    • Tentatively scheduled to meet on 2010-05-11
  • 2010-05-10 Attendance micro-blogging post
    • Attending #research3 applications workshop at eSI representing geographical simulation modelling. Blogging at external link: http://ur1.ca/zqgu #inf11 #in
  • 2010-05-10 Drafted Presentation
  • 2010-03-01 Prepared Abstract
    • external link: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/personal/blog/archive/2010/03/#2010-03-01
    • GENESIS Web 2.0 Agent City Simulation: Getting users and allowing them to control/guide Agents and model development
      • Andy Turner
      • In GENESIS I am developing models of cities where each person is modelled as an Agent. There are currently two temporal resolutions/scales of model: One ticks in seconds and runs for days, like a traffic simulation; the other ticks every day and runs for years, like a demographic model.
      • Currently the traffic simulation model is based on commute to work journey information from the 2001 Census, and OpenStreetMap data. This provides a basic level of traffic, but clearly misses many journeys. Anyway, Agents in the model are assigned shifts for working and they move from a home and back to a workplace based on these shifts which are made up. Now, I want to develop a way for potential users to take control of Agents, initially those representing themselves, and input their locations and journey purposes.
      • With the more demographic model where time ticks every day, so again there is an opportunity for Agents to be specified more by feeding from other available data for births deaths and migrations some of which may again be user contributed.
      • I plan to present progress on this and try to get feedback to make this better.

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