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- NIEeS GridGIS Working Group Meeting
- MoSeS
- Request for Information for GEOSS Web Portal Solutions
- DSOnline
- Styling issue re-opened by Brooke and me... This may be progress...
- NCeSS
- Phone Call from Terry Hewitt
- Hub are considering a change with the way they serve web pages.
- They are evaluating a set of options including:
- Xstandard?
- Live Edit and/or Edit Live?
- I suggested that WordPress could be good
- I explained that I currently use either Netbeans or a text editor to generate HTML.
- Terry seemed to think that someone from one node or other would be upset whatever they put in place
- I said that I thought Tobias had done a good job with the current web site and wondered what was wrong with it.
- Terry wanted to know who from MoSeS would be responsible for using the system they put in place. I explain that I expected this would probably be me.
- He then about my PC and I let him know I was running on Windows XP
- I wonder if Sakai and/or MKDoc might be used
- Oh well, Terry seemed happy that I had answered the questions he wanted to know.
- Geographic Information Panel awarded a contract to develop a geographic information strategy for the United Kingdom
- AGI
- SoG
- Replied to Alan Grainger's email about a "postmodern GIS" paper for AAG
- Asked Jackie to get a VDU assessment done as I need new glasses
- Drafted a letter of recommendation for Nanlin Santa Fe Institution Complex Systems Summer School
- Organised and distributed Road Network data based on Meridian
- MoSeS
- Received some processed Household SAR data from Jin :-)
- Asked CSAP to please refer me to useful documents that compare the 2001 and 1991 UK Human Population Census Data. In particular the area statistics, microdata and interaction data. I also requested that respondents indicate what document is good for what.
- I had some immediate feedback from Paul Norman :)
- Committed to contributing a 20 minute presentation for a WUN postgraduate seminar on the 7th of February. The theme is spatio-temporal modelling and I am to get a title to Linda See ASAP.
- MoSeS
- Meeting with Martin and Mark
- To kick start the analysis of why the results for 80 and over and for unemployed are not as we want.
- Focus on 80 and over first as this is most important.
- Andy hypothesis 1: The optimisation is not taking into account the age group counts and the 'spare' population is shunted into this group.
- Andy hypothesis 2: The CAS table being used to compare is not total population count, but household population count so Communal Establishment Populations are being ignored.
- Andy hypothesis 3: There is a logic error in the calculations that aggregate the results
- Procedural steps to remedy/investigate the issue:
- Derive counts and proportions for the groups from the HSAR and ISAR and relevant CAS variables.
- Derive counts and proportions for the results at OA, MSOA and Ward level.
- Identify extreme errors and identify to which OA they refer
- Investigate and re-run the procedure for the OAs with extreme errors
- Modify the fitness function for the OAs with extreme errors
- Report back to Martin and Mark
- Andy to investigate the listed hypotheses
- Meeting with Baohua Mao and Haibo Chen (2.5 hours)
- Andy detailed the 3 main types of 2001 UK Population Census Data
- Census Area Statistics
- Micro data - ISAR, HSAR, SAM
- Interaction data - SWS, SMS
- Andy described the Population Initialisation Model
- Data inputs
- The problem
- The Genetic Algorithm
- The results
- Discussion of potential transport applications
- Modelling traffic flow to hospitals and other health services
- Variables to estimate the demand for trips
- Income
- Car ownership
- Population
- Households
- Variables to estimate demand for trips
- Number of employees and users of major businesses
- Disaggregating the zone to zone traffic flow model (commuting) to the individual level.
- Links with business application
- At some stage there was talk of predicting future business levels to be input into the transport application?
- Developing the individual population dataset can be considered as a component of the transport application as this is so important for land-use - transportation models.
- Applied use of the Individual and Household data set is perhaps not so important for MoSeS?
- Who are the transport planners?
- Local traffic control centre contact?
- Road pricing project?
- Haibo/BaoHua Actions
- Send name and references of failed 1970's project to develop an Origin-Destination matrix for the UK based on a Gravity Model
- Send Andy BaoHua Home Page URL
- Andy Actions
- Send the following links to Baohua and Haibo:
- HYDRA
- CIDER, CIDS
- Comparison of 2001 and 1991 UK Population Census Data
- The Perseus Digital Library
- I wonder if Schuyler Erle knows about this...
- SoG
- Away Day
- Faculty Linkages
- Peter Mackie
- What are our key research areas?
- One of mine is thinking about what can be in term of geographic modelling and simulation with current technology.
- Who to work with in and outwith the University of Leeds (UoL)?
- How should postgraduates be funded?
- Scholarships from research council (my vote) versus internal market
- Are there any research areas UoL should improve as they hold back our research areas?
- Task Force Plan
- Oliver Phillips
- A draft is to be available as a paper copy on the floor outside Sauda's office
- Suggested metrics
- Web content
- How many hits and links do our pages get?
- Books
- Sales
- Google scholar references
- Group Consideration
- How can we support the research leaders of the future achieve their potential and how can we support the current research performers?
- Mentoring
- IT support
- wikis and web technology
- computational and data resources
- Embracing eResearch
- Do we know what is important?
- Teaching balance
- How can team culture be utilised to increase research income and outputs?
- Widen skills base
- Effective communication
- Enhance available information
- Many hands make light work on developing research proposals
- Your competitor is a potential collaborator
- How can we encourage teaching specialists?
- I left to play squash at this stage and returned after lunch
- Feedback session
- CSAP
- MoSeS
- Prepare for management meeting in the morning...
- SoG
- NCeSS Strategy Board Meeting... Refer to paper docs for now... Several important things to do in next two weeks...
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Launch meeting
- Software
- OGC
- UoL
- MoSeS
- Downloaded gt2-2.3.0 source code.
- HPC and WRG
- Considered composing an email to the MPJExpress developers...
- Target publication outlets identified by Paul:
- SoG
- Keep blogging Helen :) Helen's Blog
- Still one of the most pleasing things of the last month is that Erling has Organised Version 1 of his Web Pages (it took a lot of encouragement). I will take motivational steps to get him to update and enhance his Web content in 2007...
- Upgraded Map drawn using Google Maps API so it uses Version 2 of the API rather than version 1.
- MoSeS
- Re-examining the aggregation and regression code in an attempt to produce more satisfactory results...
- Car ownership configured to ignore communal establishment populations producing a better fit.
- Outputs produced at Ward Level for the first time.
- Plots for Unemployment are a bit off.
- Expected results seem too high, especially for results at Ward and MSOA level.
- I wonder if this may be down to Communal Establishment populations...
- Published the results online and emailed Mark and Martin the URLs:
- Meeting with Mark
- Informed Mark about Telconference with MIMAS and EDINA.
- Preparation for NCeSS e-Infrastructure Launch
- Made Mark aware of my involvement in DSOnline
- He is happy for me to spend the three days or so needed for the kick-off meeting scheduled for 2007-03-01 and 2007-03-02 in the USA.
- OGC Grid Collision / GeoLinking IE
- Telconference with MIMAS and EDINA
- Minutes were written up by Chris and did the rounds.
- I have saved a copy in /work/organisations/OGC/GeoLinkingIE/GLS_mtg_notes_Jan06_v2.doc and emailed a copy to Mark Birkin and Paul Townend.
- This meeting can be viewed in part as a MIMAS and EDINA Liason Activity for the JISC - notes to be written up for that.
- Attendees
- Agenda
- Review how we got here
- Relevance to EDINA - SEE-GEO and GEESE
- Relevance to MIMAS - GEMS GEMSII
- Do we want to participate?
- What do we offer?
- What do we get out of it?
- Notes
- How we got here:
- Chris caught wind of the GeoLinking IE in 2006-11
- He contacted James as it seemed very relevant to ongoing activities, especially those involving OGSA-DAI
- Relevance to EDINA
- Chris outlined SEE-GEO and GEESE
- EDINA working on a WCS
- Relevant to GEMS II activity
- Chris to contact developer and email Keith
- Relevance to MIMAS
- GEMS
- JISC funded
- 1 year - 2006
- To make 2001 UK Census Area Statistics on the NGS
- Pascal did some requirements gathering from MoSeS and GeoVUE
- Some security issues to be resolved
- Available in the next few months :)
- Technical issues/accomplishments
- Mapping eScience certificates and Shibboleth/Athens ID
- Identified 3 problems with OGSA-DAI
- Main problem is that returns from a RDMS query are held in memory for DOM parsing which can crash the JVM with an OutOfMemoryError
- This issue may be difficult to resolve
- OGSA-DAI activities data transfer is inefficient
- This is being addressed and should be less of an issue in subsequent releases
- GSI data encyption doesn't really work
- GEMS II
- Aerial Photographs
- Large scale processing tasks example application
- Change detection of urban to rural using archive data (time series)
- Are JISC providing support for production DataGrids?
- Do we want to participate?
- It seems yes!
- What do we offer?
- Simple use case
- GDAS from MIMAS
- Modify OGSA-DAI to talk to GDAS
- Modify OGSA-DAI to talk to WFS
- Write an OGSA-DAI activity to do GeoLinking (WMS)
- Write a GLS Client to consume WMS
- What do we get out of it?
- Peer Review
- Demonstrators
- Learning about OGC process
- Development of working relationships
- Good for JISC OGC Grid Collision projects
- Good for development of e-Infrastructure
- If we cannot contribute resources we can still participate as observers by joining the OGC GeoLinkingIE.
- Possible funding?
- Chris to contact Ann Borda and James Farnhill at JISC
- Additional liason
- Chris to talk with folk at CGS tomorrow
- Geomorphometrics
- Chat on passing with Steve Taylor:
- The meeting with Steve and the MCE people went OK.
- Explaining geomorphometrics to them went a little over their heads.
- He will get back to me if they decide to use any of the metrics generated from the Grids software.
- Updated Andy Turner's OGC Page
- OGC Grid Collision / GeoLinking IE
- Telephone call with Chris Higgins :)
- MoSeS
- Updated Andy Turner's MoSeS Meetings Page
- Impromptu meeting with Junaid
- He is still angling for "the problem" that MoSeS is going to solve and for documentation about it.
- I reviewed our last meeting explaining that:
- MoSeS applications in business, transport and health are to be based on a common demographic model.
- These application are to exemplify the use of such a model.
- The important thing is the process and the information resource we produce.
- The process is about drawing together application scientists, computer scientists, information scientists.
- The term for this is eScience.
- We are using wikis, web pages and other means of communication and information management to achieve our aims.
- We are arriving at the "problem(s)" to solve rather than stating them in advance.
- Junaid's report is to be ready by the 2007-01-15 and I can expect an electronic copy to link with the rest of the MoSeS documentation :)
- It seems Junaid is keen to start a PhD with Paul and Jie's group, one of the themes he is considering is security aspects of UK China collaboration.
- I explained that this is very relevant to our concerns about data and desire to exploit HPC Grid resources to compute with confidential data.
- DSOnline
- MoSeS
- Re-examining some aggregation code... Some things do not seem to add up right...
- Browsing
- Got some PC specification advice from Paul for my new works PC that I want to set up between now and Easter.
- Brief meeting with Mark
- Need to check the current regression results are online and send him the URL.
- Discussed upcoming meetings and activities:
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure Workshop, e-Infrastructure Project Launch and NCeSS Strategy Board...
- GeoLinking IE Teleconference and project kick off...
- DSOnline
- Browsing
- OGC Grid Collision
- MoSeS
- Checked progress on the Beowulf:
- Processed so far zones 00AAFA0001 to 00AQGE0002.
- Output file is 142413054 bytes.
- About 5 times as many zones processed than are in Leeds, so about 10% of the UK.
- It seems 2 nodes (16 and 6) have failed on the 26th of December.
- At this rate the result should be produced by approximately the end of February.
- Booked extra time on the Beowulf calendar.
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