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- MASS meeting
- EGC meeting
- Prepared expenses claim for OGC TC 2006-06
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting GeneticAlgorithm so that mutation at the Houeholds can be done using HouseholdSARDataHandler and HouseholdSARDataRecords for Household Populations...
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler for HouseholdSARDataRecords that contitute Household Populations in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
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- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting GeneticAlgorithm so that mutation at the Houeholds can be done using HouseholdSARDataHandler and HouseholdSARDataRecords for Household Populations...
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler for HouseholdSARDataRecords that contitute Household Populations in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
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- PhD progress of sorts
- Filled out Research Degree Study Leavers Form and Handed it to Val Marrison...
- Once my supervisors sign another form I should be ready for a resumption of studies in September based on this research outline :)
- http://www.csiro.au/
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting GeneticAlgorithm so that mutation at the Houeholds can be done using HouseholdSARDataHandler and HouseholdSARDataRecords for Household Populations...
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler for HouseholdSARDataRecords that contitute Household Populations in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
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- http://www.crisisgrid.org
- Lots of stuff!
- Aydin G., Sayar A., Gadgil H., Aktas M., Fox G., Ko S., Bulut H., Pierce M. (2006) Building and Applying Geographical Information System Grids
- Sayar A., Pierce M., Fox G. (2005) DEVELOPING GIS VISUALIZATION WEB SERVICES FOR GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
- Sayar A., Pierce M., Fox G. (2006) Integrating AJAX Approach into GIS Visualization Web Services
- Sayar A., Pierce M., Fox G. (2005) OGC Compatible Geographical Information Systems Web Services
- Started developing a GeoRSS Test...
- http://georss.geonames.org/
- RSS to GeoRSS Converter
- http://exploreourpla.net/georss/http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/a.turner.rdf.xml
- http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer W3C Recommendation 24 June 2003
- Explore Our Planet :)
- http://www.geonames.org/ Wow, excellent! :)
- Read OGC GeoRSS White Paper (OGC Document 06-050r3) ... great stuff :) GeoRSS agogo...
- Ibis: Efficient Java-Based Grid Computing should look at this...
- Read OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) White Paper (OGC Document 06-046r2)
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting GeneticAlgorithm so that mutation at the Houeholds can be done using HouseholdSARDataHandler and HouseholdSARDataRecords for Household Populations...
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler for HouseholdSARDataRecords that contitute Household Populations in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
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- Peer reviewed a paper submitted to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting GeneticAlgorithm so that mutation at the Houeholds can be done using HouseholdSARDataHandler and HouseholdSARDataRecords for Household Populations...
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler for HouseholdSARDataRecords that contitute Household Populations in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
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- MoSeS Portal Meeting
- MoSeS demographic modelling... Adapting IndividualCensus to use HouseholdSARDataHandler in a method getAGE0HRPConstrainedInitialIndividualAndHouseholdSARHashSet(...)...
- Emailed Rob Allan about web mapping
- Took part in the UCU Research Assessment Survey
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- MoSeS demographic modelling... Reorganising Household SAR data handling...
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- MoSeS demographic modelling... Where was I??? Oh, let's try again the easy way by assuming there is enough memory...
- Helping out at SoG Graduation
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- Emailed Mark Baker about collaboration on VRE II
- http://www.gsdi.org/
- Set up grids
- Registered with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- GeoWeb
- The Gazetteer for Scotland was conceived by David Munro (of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society) and Bruce Gittings (of the University of Edinburgh) in 1995. Realising the vision of an integrated web-based gazetteer has taken considerable time and much work. Thanks Bruce for the link :)
- Emailed Belinda: The Swarm Modelling list could be useful for us...
- Discussions with Brian and Mike about hydrological modelling
- Mike explained that to make a "hydrologically correct DEM" it was usually better to cut down into flat or sink areas rather than raise them up
- When routing water the resolution of the time step is best to be variable, detailed as and when it needs to be
- The level of temporal detail required can be judged by the rate of change of the surface height such that no cell accumulates more water than it should from neighbours
- An iterative approximation to ensure spiking of the water surface does not occur might be necessary, but would be computationally expensive?
- In order not to shift water horizontally, memory of where water is coming from needs to be retained
- Based on the difference in height (additional water), a proportiaonal amount can be returned to the contributing areas
- When rounting water and sediment and changing the surface height things get an order of magnitude more difficult!
- We have to remember that water and material under pressure can move uphill and that mass movements can dramatically effect hydrological conditions
- There is always a problem of knowing antecedent conditions
- We should estimate effects of different inputs based on a range of antecedent conditions
- Emailed Alison with news items for the SoG Newsletter
- Emailed CSAP to let them know about ESRC Open Meeting
- Booked in to the Sherwood Guest House for 2006-07-16 to 2006-07-19
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- Attended Who Runs Leeds Workshop 2
- Not as big as first workshop...
- I only made it for the second half
- Made some notes on paper and added to file in filing cabinet
- Help Linda to use Beowulf cluster: Step 1 - login and make a plan...
- Registered for the Portals And Portlets 2006 Workshop Wiki
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- SoG
- Geography with Nanlin
- The importance of Geographic Information
- Scale and Resoultion
- Space Time Attribute Points Lines and Regions
- Stan Openshaw MAUP and GeoComputation
- Open Standards and Open Source
- OGC and CCG
- Emailed Mike, Diane, Jill, David to suggest a hyperlinked agenda and web page for Staff Meetings.
- Spoke to Diane about the need for digital distibution of Staff Meeting documentation. I am expecting an email... It is far from world class producing so much paper and not making information available online :( Maybe I should complain to higher authority... I'll follow up with an email first...
- Emailed Jackie (cc Belinda) with regard her comment at staff meeting yesterday about better utilisation of space
- Currently Belinda is only here once in a blue moon so it is resonable that other teleworkers or people can use the other desk in G10 at other times
- When can we expect the furniture/fixtures and fittings as per our meeting in May? (See relevant blog entry)
- Cast vote to UCU on the latest pay offer.
- Read the WUN Report 05/06.
- Decided not to apply for Contribution Payment for extra service to University of Leeds above and beyond the call of duty.
- Helped Mark run the Cluster tool containing GAM... His system needed convincing that the download was a jar not a zip file then it all worked nicely
- Catch up meeting with Mark 11:30 to 12:30
- Summarised what I had been doing over the last week and a half and how this relates to MoSeS
- One of the best things was meeting up with Ian Turton et al and getting experience with the OGC process.
- Hopefully Ian will email a JSR168 WMS portlet that we can use for the MoSeS portal.
- Explained Ian's method of matching and swapping individuals from the Individual SAR to build households similar to those in the Household SAR
- Involves matching of individuals across the datasets.
- If synthetic Households comprising Individual SAR records, there would be fewer problems with Age.
- Missing variables in the Household SAR would also be availables (if there are any).
- For the time Mark prescribed that I carry on code development by disaggregating AGEH in the Household SAR
- Mark supposed rightly that I had not done any MoSeS coding for the last week or so
- I want a clear week to get on and develop the Version 3 of the MoSeS demographic initialisation code...
- The OGC Grid Collision JISC funds are not yet in to fund my attendence at the OGC meeting
- I am to hold back on filing these expenses until later...
- Talked about the AHRC eGIS meeting and the evolving collaboration for developing e-Content Plus and a placenames data base of Europe
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project
- What are we going to do?
- We are looking to work closely with CQeSS, Rob Allans group, GEMS, and Policy Grid.
- Mark is leading this.
- How are we going to resource it?
- I reconfirmed my willingness to work on whatever projects for the time being.
- Portals and portlet workshop in Edinburgh and meeting with Rob Allan's team in Daresbury about MoSeS portal development
- Mark is to email Rob Allan and cc in Paul
- Geographic Information: An Analysis of Interoperability and Information Sharing in the United Kingdom
- Report based on the results of a 2004 survey on interoperability and information sharing
- It seems GI experts in Interoperabilty were not consulted... Only government organisations were consulted... Very odd!
- This should have raised awareness of some interoperabiltiy issues within governement organisations
- The focus was on data rather than data maniputlation...
- It would be useful if the responses were openly avaialble...
- Joined the AGI as an individual in order to access presentation slides from Interoperability Day - 30th June 2006
- Hopefully there will be other benefits of joining...
- GI Panel Membership and Chairmanship
- GI strategy for the United Kingdom
- AGI GI Panel Update
- AGI Event: UK SDI Why? What? When?
- Interesting... I wonder:
- Who went...
- If there is/was discussion on what to include in an Open Access SDI...
- If there is/was discussion on Open Source Software Solutions...
- Joint AGI Cymru & Technical SIG Event
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- Ask Stuart Ballard about a web home page for Grid GIS Working Group
- Gazetteer of Australia 2005 Release
- Thanks for the link Simon Cox :)
- useful information for placenames work.
- I emailed the link to the AHRC eGIS group.
- Location Types Registry
- Carl Reed OCG TC Chair put me on to this... Thanks Carl :)
- This is very relevant to placenames discussions yesterday as recorded in my GIS eScience meeting 2006-07 page
- Forwarded Carl's email to the AHRC eGIS group.
- Emailed Richard Forsyth. I'll take a look at the document he sent. The main problem with the GA is breeding viable solutions as there are a number of constraints. This renders basic bit string type operations pretty useless. I'll get back to him later... This needs actioning...
- Emailed following items from this weeks NCeSS weekly email to AHRC eGIS group:
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3- User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - Workshop, 20 July
Following a successful application to the AHRC, the 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk)
project is holding a series of workshops to highlight the necessity of user requirements gathering for the humanities community.
Thursday 20th July, 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Classics Centre, The Old Boys School, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL.
(http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/index.html)
The JISC funded 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities'
(BVREH) project has recently been carrying out an extensive user requirements survey of humanities researchers at Oxford University. This is one of a number of ICT projects based in the humanities which have begun to focus on user requirements gathering prior to developing technology. The project feels that this is an important time to bring together these initiatives and work towards building a requirements capturing community for the humanities sector.
The workshops will be of particular importance in identifying the needs of humanities researchers in a broad range of subject areas and disciplines.
Building on the existing expertise in e-Science they will attempt to identify ways in which humanities research can develop equivalent and inter-disciplinary structures and methodologies which will serve the needs of the research community and link it more firmly to ICT research structures on a national scale.
The three workshops are designed to build a community in which the methodologies for humanities requirements gathering will continue to grow and evolve. The programme is structured to provide an understanding of where the current issues and gaps in humanities user requirements are, what methodologies and practices currently exist, including which would be useful to adopt and which might be created. Finally the programme will define how the community will use the knowledge gained to develop coherent methodologies for future projects.
Workshop One - User Requirements in ICT Projects in Humanities
The focus of the first workshop will be to define and discuss the methods that projects are currently utilising in gathering requirements, to initiate discussion around current issues and concerns and to encourage participants to think collectively about improving and advancing these methodologies.
Case studies of the BVREH project and other AHRC and JISC funded projects with a considerable user requirements focus will be presented to help initiate group discussion. The workshop will then split into groups to develop the themes identified and feed back outcomes to the group at the end of the session.
Speakers at the workshop will include:
- Sheila Anderson, Arts and Humanities Data Service - 'The AHRC's
e-Science Scoping Survey'
- Dr Melissa Terras, University College London - 'Log Analysis of
Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities' (LARIAH)
- Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading - 'Silchester Roman
Town: A VRE for Archaeology'
- Ruth Kirkham and John Pybus, Oxford University - 'Building a Virtual
Research Environment for the Humanities' (BVREH)
In order to gain a good sense of those wishing to attend, individuals are asked to submit a paragraph describing their interest is the workshop, together with a short summary of their background.
Please confirm if you would like to attend by emailing ruth.kirkham@humanities.ox.ac.uk by Monday 10th July 2006. There are a limited number of places available; notification of a place will be sent by Wednesday 12th July.
Lunch and light refreshments will be served during the day.
- 4- Invitation to complete Digital Curation Centre on-line survey
Scientists, researchers and scholars across the UK generate increasingly vast amounts of digital data. JISC and EPSRC have funded the establishment of a Digital Curation Centre (DCC) to support curation activities within UK institutions that create, store, manage and/or preserve these data. For more information on the DCC, please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk.
To evaluate the level of current curation activity and the DCC's effectiveness in raising awareness regarding digital curation issues, we would like to invite you to complete our on-line survey. Whatever your role in the life-cycle of digital information - from researchers to archivists to data re-users - we would like to hear from you. The survey will take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete and as a small token of our appreciation, we are offering one lucky entrant the chance to win an iPod nano (competition rules apply).
The results of this survey, together with the results of focus groups and one-to-one interviews will help us to determine how we might better serve the digital curation, preservation, and eScience communities.
To complete the on-line survey, please go to http://www.dcc.ac.uk/adding/public_survey/.
The deadline for completing this survey is July 28th, 2006.
- School of Geography Staff Meeting
- Documentation
- It claims to be M:\Faculty of Environment\Staff_meeting_agenda_5July06.doc but not found on ftp://ftp.shared.leeds.ac.uk/Earth&Environment/
- I asked for a digital copy of the document from Diane prior to the meeting but this did not get sent :(
- Finance update
- There is a Human Geography Development Fund with about £100k
- This was negotiated when Gill Valentine was employed
- The fund is undersubscribed
- There is no documentation on applying to the human geography development fund, to apply speek to Gill.
- Has the money from the SPIN!-project come in yet?
- 3rd payment pending, but this does not effect these accounts as these already invoiced :)
- Visiting Students policy to be put in place
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