Introduction
People
Documentation
- Documentation distributed as files by email prior to the event:
- Educational priorities and strategies.doc
- Extracts from What is web 2.0 - JISC report 2007.doc
- Introduction to INSPIRE.pdf
- Location-based experiences JISC Report.pdf
- Research - Synthesis of Strategies by RCUK.pdf
- Stewardship of digital research data by RIN.pdf
- Students and Information Use - April 2008.doc
- Vision for research by RCUK.pdf
- DEVELOPING THE UKS E-INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 2004.zip
- Wiki made available on 2008-07-11:
Notes
- Arrival
- Coffee, wireless, civilisation (and a cultural setting :-)
- Asked to fill out an introductory paper form detailing my name and what new IT has excited me and how in the last 6 months
- The name bit was easy, later in the day I wrote in: tablet PCs and touch screen interfaces for the IT development for their intuitive use; and, augmented reality information dissemination and assimilation devices for the specifically geo IT...
- Phil James wrote GeoDjango, I would have looked this up then and there, but laptop use was about to be seriously discouraged and I only got round to look at this subsequently when I wrote up these notes.
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- Introduction to the day
- Sponsor Address
- We are to focus on the what (not the how), and to try to be futuristic.
- We are awaiting a response to the UK GI Strategy from the government which is due soon:
- New acronym: GYM - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
- EDINA
- JISC
- Facilitator Intro
- The day is quite structured and there is a lot to get through.
- One of the important things is to get to know the other participants :-)
- The EDINA staff are going to attempt to capture the information from the various sessions and write this up:
- It is good, but it could be a collaborative exercise and it was not made clear (if and how) the data collected would be made openly available.
- Future Opportunities and Challenges
- 4 groups:
- Research
- Teaching
- Technology
- Social Economical and Political
- I was in Research group and we had to write ideas on post it notes and then collate these into groups.
- Here are some I added, some of which were grouped together in the organisation part of the exercise:
- Keeping up with developments
- Augmenting reality
- Not losing data
- Learning with industry
- Organising funding
- Having access to the latest kit
- Improving efficiency
- Collaboration (which I thought would be in all groups and pervasive theme throughout the day.)
- There was a group report back
- Peter Halls made an important point on accessibility and people with disabilities.
- How to work in the future?
- The future is now. Noone really knows what the world will be like in 2 let alone 5 or 10 years time.
- My immediate thought:
- Blog activity
- Publish early and often.
- Try to make information about what research I do and plan to do as openly available as possible.
- I hope this will promote collaboration and encourage efficiency by getting teams together to work together rather than directly compete for glory...
- Again grouped, this time each group given the profile of someone and were asked to list some key activites and resources required to support these.
- One of each group stayed put and others cycled round discussing these profiles.
- I thought at one stage that this could be valuable feedback to real people rather than made up profiles...
- Again there was a report back session to complete this section.
- Lunch
- Chat with Alistair:
- Stan Openshaw where are you now? We miss you :-)
- After lunch livener
- BS0 is a standard of standards!
- Future Predictions
- what do we want more than a prediction of what will be.
- We looked at some 10 year predictions made by Mike Goodchild in 2000 and annotated them.
- I came up with two predictions:
- In 10 years we will have an openly available detailed virtual world representing Earth from prehistory to present.
- In 10 years more data will be collected and processed in the year than for all other years before, though measuring it will be an estimate.
- I would like to add that:
- We are a long way towards developing The Simulation a la Andy Evans (Simulation, Noir) and that Virtual worlds representing information about the here and now will by available for people to augment reality using trendy glasses and hearing devices.
- Enablers
- The task was to consider what is needed to develop our future vision into a reality.
- For this exercise there were 5 groups:
- Data/content
- Tools/technology
- Skills/knowledge/people
- legal/policy
- Social/Institutional/Economic
- I joined the Skills/knowledge/people group and did the reporting back for this:
- I made an additional point that in terms of developing virtual worlds we should not foget the massive amount of work and investment in the computer games industry.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Moving Forward
- There was a list of stakeholders and I worked with Lucy to consider Government Agencies.
- Who were they and what roles and responsibilities did they have?
- Later I considered that JISC and the RCUK constituents were also stakeholders of this type.
- Next Steps
- Standards for data interchange
- Peer review of wikimapia
- Open peer review
- Sharing resources
- Digitally Mapping Leicester
- This is interesting work that Douglas is doing.
- I said I would email him about this.
- It would have liked to have made these two points:
- It would be good if in a years time, everyone present had uploaded all research outputs they were supposed to the appropriate repository (e.g. ESDS):
- Anyone not fullfilling their obligation could be asked to explain why (a sort of name and shame).
- Furthermore it would be good if metadata for all the data that we have is also made available:
- Is there a need for an amnesty on people having data that is not licensed?
- There could be a lot of this around... (Has there been an anonymous survey with a high level of response?)
- I suggested that we could set up an NCeSS Sakai Portal Worksite for this and try to draw in information from outside the room.
- Browsing
References
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