Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop 2007-01 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This Web Page is for organising my information about the NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop. Manchester, UK. 2007-01-15 to 2007-01-16.
- Contents:
People
Notes
- Introduction by Rob Crouchley
- SUPER
  - Steven Newhouse
  - Public report should be available next week.
- NGS
  - Steven Pickles
  - What is the difference between a virtual organisation and a virtual community?
  - NGS can host VOs in VOMS
  - NGS wiki now available for VOs to advertise
  - SRB federation work ongoing
  - There is a proposal under consideration for JISC funding for NGS communities (each for around �50k)
    - This sounds like an excellent opppurtunity... Should find out detials...
- Cyberinfrastructure developments in the US
  - Rob Proctor
  - SDSC and NCSA core nodes of Teragrid
  - Cyberenvironments are US version of (nomenclature) for Virtual REsearch Environments
  - Requirements Analysis Teams (RATs)
  - In the UK it seems that eScience money made available predominantly for computer science has been sub optimally used to produce computer science literature, not the e-Infrastructure (software, hardware and networking) required to support communities of applications developers in the social sciences.
- ESRC Research Infrastructure Plans
  - Rob Proctor
  - 10 Year Plan
    - Aiming to be world leading
    - Strategy currently very data focussed
  - Much wrangling going on due to upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review
  - Peter Halfpenny mentioned a 40,000 Household Longitudinal Survey
- European e-Infrastructure
  - Ken Miller
  - Great! It seems Europe is getting its act together and has considerable resources for developing this.
  - ESFRI
- eSI
  - Alex Voss
  - Nice one Alex!
- The e-Framework for Education and Research and the need for a wider e-Infrastructure linking research and repositories
  - Rob Allan
  - http://www.e-framework.org
  - Excellent, Thanks Rob :)
- Workshop Participation
  - I summarised my growing list of tools, datasets sevices portals using considering/wanting to use
    - Data
      - UK Population Census Data
        
        CAS
        
        ISAR/HSAR
        
        Longitudinal data
        
        SWS SMS
      - Associated Boundary data
        
        Travel to work areas
        
        Cartograms
        
        Geographical Administrative areas
      - BHPS
      - FES
      - STATS19
      - IPS
      - Digital map data e.g. OSMM
      - Satellite imagery and remote sensing
      - Cities revealed
      - Epidemiology and health details
      - Crime data
      - Education data
      - Labour Force Survey
      - NOMIS
      - National Statistics Neighbourhood statistics
      - National Land-Use Database
      - Lifestyle and Geodemographic data
      - Store cards
      - Communications data - phone usage and line registration data
      - Traffic flow data
      - Property Gazateers Cadastral information
      - UpMyStreet
      - Friends ReUnited
    - Services, Tools
      - Media - newspapers, t.v.
      - Seminars workshops
      - Web of Science / JSTOR
      - W3C Validation
      - CITE tests
      - EDINA MIMAS
      - Open Source Java
        
        Mapping
        
        Charting
        
        Numerical Algorithms
        
        Integrated Development Environment
      - Web browsers
        
        Search engines
      - wikis
      - Portals
      - web pages
      - web server
      - University of Leeds Publication Database
      - IRC Access Grid etc... communications technology
  - Round table
    - Comparing Rob Crouchley's models of the research process with Mark B and Rob A from a simulation perspective
      - Mark gave our feedback to the group
      - My notes
        
        Results replicability
        
        Ensembles based on different random number seeds to find trend and extreme results
        
        Research Lifecycle
        
        What resources are available?
        
        Theoretical brainstorm
        
        Operational brainstorm
        
        Funding application development
        
        Publications consideration
        
        Software and data as well as journal publications
        
        Simulation often not based on any input data

Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop 2007-01 Web Page

Introduction

People

Notes

Validation and Metadata