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- Those I am planning to attend/attended:
- Other relevant events:
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Geomorphometry meeting with Steve Carver
- PhD
- Nick Malleson's Supervision Meeting System
- Supervision Meeting
- Entered onto Nick's systems
- People
- Mark Birkin
- Andy Evans
- Andy Turner
- Agenda
- Topic
- Administration and Options
- RSG
- 1st Year Seminar
- DONM
- AoB
- Agenda Based Notes
- Topic
- Agent Based Modelling of Daily Activity tied to the GENESIS Project
- A focus on retailing and people movements with an emphasis on work place
- Synthetic data strand
- Real world data strand
- How does e-Infrastructure and its relevance to Agent Based Modelling of Daily Activity fit in?
- A significant amount of GENESIS work that Andy will be doing is going to be on e-Infrastructure...
- Administration and Options
- Considered PhD by publciation
- This is not an available option at The University of Leeds
- Do we want to change the system?
- A first step down this line would be to write up MoSeS as a set of peer reviewed journal articles...
- The other option is to carry on as we are, but to get documentation in order
- This was both the favoured and default option...
- Andy to submit all details of supervision meetings onto Nick's system...
- RSG
- Alison Heppenstall and Graham Clarke?
- Perhaps also Oliver Duke-Williams?
- Andy Evans/Mark will approach these once Andy Turner has got meeting documentation in order...
- 1st Year Seminar
- DONM
- AoB
- e-Science
- Meeting with Paul
- JISC A2 Bid
- Call from Rob Procter to clarify things :-)
- Provided feedback to Mark on first draft
- Thinking about the INSPIRE Directive:
- JISC B1 Bid
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Meeting with Mark
- Agenda
- Funding
- Events
- MoSeS Portal
- PhD
- GENESIS
- Date of next meeting
- AoB
- Notes going though agenda
- Funding
- JISC A2 Bid
- Mark is pulling a single draft proposal document together.
- Mark found what I wrote on Core Services Interface useful.
- Mark wanted me to explain about portals and security
- There is some concern over the interdependencies between Work Packages
- In terms of project management Mark is getting on well with Neil Chue Hong and it seems sensible to run this project from Leeds if it is funded.
- I explain a bit about the difference between workflows and data flows.
- We considered caching and security and how workflow and dataflow can be represented visually with collapsable and expandable icons which can reveal atomic processes...
- SimTube to be an Exemplar?
- Mark would like CASA to concentrate on GeoVisualisation and leave the analysis/modelling to us...
- Another JISC bid with Andy Hudson-Smith?
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project Demonstrator Funding
- Since the project board is not meeting until April, we'll see how other things pan out in the meantime...
- Events
- CASA Seminar
- CSAP Business Meeting
- Lots of relevant work and collaboration potential.
- Andy to send Mark a copy of his notes.
- I didn't get round to mentioning about Edinburgh towards the end of March...
- We didn't update on other events coming up for which the deadlines are fast approaching...
- I wonder if we're going to miss anything important...
- I'm hoping that we'll review where we are with this at the GENESIS meeting next week.
- MoSeS Portal and portlets
- I think Paul is making good progress, but there are a few problems to fix:
- SRB replication permissions problem
- There are issues with the versions of Gridsphere and tomcat we are trying to use.
- The current GLS is throwing an error
- Because OpenLayers and Geoserver continue to improve and more open source work has been done with SLD generation tools things look good for delivering some state of the art map development tools...
- CASA have also been going down the OpenLayers route now, so this is one area where we have greater potential overlap and collaboration opportunities
- CASA seem to be taking on board my concerns over them being unengaged in implementing and developing open standards and open source software :-)
- I have not seen a demo for a while, but one should be ready to present to Malcom Atkinson next week.
- PhD
- I had a brief chat with Andy Evans and will prepare for the meeting tomorrow by creating a list of dates for all supervision meetings since I restarted the PhD with a new topic.
- I am also down to present on progress at the forthcoming 1st year seminar series on 2009-02-09 at 14:20
- Mark will try to attend :-)
- GENESIS
- I met Ateen Patel and summarised what I was doing on GENESIS with regard sythetic and real world data based modelling and visualisation to him and the others at the meeting in CASA yesterday.
- We have a meeting about this next week for Leeds partners to prepare for...
- Date of next meeting
- AoB
-
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Work Package 4.1 Meeting in London
-
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- GEOG5060 Geomorphometrics
- Steve Carver asks if I'm prepared to give a lecture and run a workshop on grids for this.
- I agreed so long as I can make the dates which he will send to me.
- There is some interest in the group about processing DEM data for Mars:
- CSAP Business Meeting
- e-Science
- Mark Baker asks me about presenting at:
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
- Meeting with Paul
- We ran through the agenda and plan for tomorrows NeSS meeting.
- Problems with restarting tomcat on geo-s12 are now fixed :-)
- There remain two issues with the portal:
- SRB is not playing nicely
- Paul is replicating the data at the other core sites, but there are some permissions problems or something connecting with the SRB master...
- Gridsphere not working with Tomcat 6
- We're not sure if this has been resolved...
- The workaround we could use is to revert to Tomcat 5 :-(
- NeSS
- Preparation for meeting in London tomorrow
- GLS
- Junaid has fixed the GLS to use the follwoing Server URL:
- http://husserl.ncess.ac.uk:8081/proxy/Proxy
- I checked and think it works using the NCeSS Sakai Portal : MoSeS Worksite : EDINA Tool (GLS Client)
- I don't get a map, but...
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Created new account at OpenABM Consortium
- Tom Armitage (EDINA) invited me to give a presentation and sit on a panel at the forthcoming Geo-spatial Worlds JISC Conference
- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/03/jiscconference09/programme/geo-spatial.aspx
- He is looking for me to fill a 15 minute slot talking about Case Studies of GeoData use in Research (Examples from Different Areas) and then sit on a panel to answer any questions from the audience (largely academics and JISC people).
- I suggested that Kamie Kitmitto might be a good person to chair the panel session given that David Medyckyj-Scott is already giving a talk in that session (before me).
- I mentioned about the JISC A2 Bid and collaborations with CASA GENESIS and that I might get some input from them...
- I suggested Paul Longley to talk about http://www.spatial-literacy.org/...
- I feel quite privileged to be asked to do this. For a time I thought I might have been confused with Andrew Turner of http://highearthorbit.com/, anyway, I look forward to a confirmatory email from Tom...
- e-Science
- Telecon to discuss NCeSS bid to the A2 strand of the JISC IE call
- NeSS
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Telephone call from Marcus in Sweden
- He was keen to find out more about our ODL programme and about how things work in the UK bridging from undergraduate degree to PhD
- I suggested he contact Linda See directly and look online for details of our ODL offerings...
- He is looking at a Norwegian University in Trondheim also to further his studies...
- He is aware of some tools being developed at his university to look at 3D visualisation and said he would send me a link...
- e-Science
- Business Meeting with Mark Birkin 4pm
- Agenda
- PhD Registration
- JISC A2 Bid
- NeSS
- GENESIS
- MoSeS
- AoB
- Notes going through the Agenda
- PhD Registration
- There is an email from Jackie Findley
- More detail is wanted on what the PhD is about...
- There are mounting concerns about documentation...
- Andy to try to get a supervisory meeting date with Andy Evans and Mark in the next fortnight...
- Mark to chase up with Alan Grainger and Jackie Findley.
- JISC A2 Bid
- Modelling
- AT and MB
- PRM and Dynamic Modelling
- What can we do with this data?
- Mark to draft something on this...
- Service enhancements
- We discussed linking with other data...
- I outlined the difference between linking with Representative and Biased other sample data as I had considered at the NCeSS Jamboree.
- How best to link does depend on how big the samples are and whether all groups are represented...
- Does it all come out in the wash of a reasonably large scale representative survey like the BHPS?
- GWR, GAM, pattern related technology...
- Can we find:
- Cluster of:
- particular demographic groups
- old people
- conservative voters
- Potential Rugby Union club locations given locations of other sporting clubs a population of target demographic
- Exemplars
- Core service interfaces
- NeSS
- I gave summary of meeting with June Finch
- GENESIS
- Next meetings...
- All partner meeting being suggested for end of February, begining of March
- Still need to articulate what everyone is doing...
- We need Paul to be pushing on with portal development...
- Cologne?
- MoSeS
- ESDS data deposit underway...
- Portal
- Andy to follow up on emails to Paul, so we can play around with and demo
- Hopefully problems with SRB will soon be resolved!
- AoB
- Funding
- FP7 is the big one, but we need to be aware of the other deadlines...
- Date of Next meeting
- Telecon to discuss NCeSS bid to the A2 strand of the JISC IE call
- This follows on from Tuesday's respective blog item
- Agenda:
- minutes and action points from last meeting
- updates:
- overall goals and structure - Mark's document, my update to follow
- partner contributions
- other partners
- matching funding
- costings and division of resources
- project management
- date and time of next meeting
- AoB
- I was an hour late for this meeting it being scheduled for 9am earlier that morning while I was not at work.
- This could help build a case for work getting me some better IT...
- My notes from this meeting are not public, but they are on the NCeSS Sakai Portal : JISC A2 Bid Worksite. If you are logged in the following URL should work:
- MoSeS
- Planning submission of data to ESDS
- http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/create/offering.asp
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/metadata.asp
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing/catametadata.asp
- I sent the following submission form with the following proviso and summary:
- DataSubmissionForm.doc
- I think the data submission should be provisional on some additional documentation and some descriptive metadata that I am willing to put together. The programs that generated the data are available under an open source license and are online. The results can be regenerated, not just in theory, but with the correct parameter files. Work is on-going to develop a service for others to use to create such data which may or may not be ingested into the ESDS archive in a more automatic fashion in the future.
- To summarise, currently we are offering 2 results: one based just on the Individual Sample of Annonymised Records and a set of Census Aggregate Statistics; and, another based also on the Household Sample of Annonymised Records. These are for the UK for 2001 at Output Area Level. Effectively one record for each person.
- NeSS
- Skype Meeting with June Finch 3pm
- No further visible progress on finalising work package specifications with Rudradeb, so main reason for this meeting
- MoSeS are a Use Case for Work Package 3.1 and it is unclear how much effort is involved at Leeds end to do this although Rudradeb suggested the figure of 1 month FTE.
- There is £50k funding available for demonstrator funding, which is to be allocated at a Board Meeting in April
- This is on the agenda for MoSeS/GeoVUE/NeSS meeting on Wednesday
- Positioned well to bid for this, but need to come up with a concise proposal specifying an additional deliverable and there may be competition from other partners in the project...
- This will be on the agenda for next weeks MoSeS/GeoVUE/NeSS meeting at CASA.
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Read the School of Geography Academic Staff Forum minutes from the meeting yesterday
- e-Science
- Going through the latest GLS material with the aim of voting and giving further feedback today...
- The doc is looking good... upto a third of the way though... I'm on page 16...
- e-Science
- Research3 Workshop: The impact and influence of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
- Telecon to discuss NCeSS bid to the A2 strand of the JISC IE call
- This follows on from yesterday's respective blog item
- There is now a NCeSS Sakai Portal : JISC A2 Bid Worksite for developing the bid.
- I have added some content on the wiki including a page about me:
- Draft agenda circulated by Rob Procter:
- minutes and action points from last meeting
- overall bid goals and structure
- NCeSS participant contributions update
- other partners update
- matching funding update
- costings and division of resources
- project management
- date and time of next meeting
- AoB
- June/Katy to organise the taking of minutes?
- Documentation
- People
- Attendees
- Sean Bechhofer
- Rob Procter
- June Finch
- Katy Middlebrough
- Rob Crouchley
- Mark Birkin
- Andy Turner
- Notes following draft agenda circulated by Rob Procter:
- minutes and action points from last meeting
- overall bid goals and structure
- What is out key Use Case?
- I suspect we need lots of scenarios to make this up...
- NCeSS participant contributions update
- MoSeS/GeoVUE/GENESIS Proposal for a Portal-Based Mapping Service:
- Mark Birkin, Andy Turner, Andy Hudson-Smith
- Main characteristics of portal-based mapping service:
- Developed under Open Standards; can be plugged into any other portal e.g. within the research lifecycle
- Geographical Linkage Service (GLS) combines geometry and attribute data
- Map outputs rendered through Style Layer Description (SLD) which is embedded within workflows and the associated metadata
- All of these activities have been demonstrated within the NCeSS e-infrastructure project.
- We envisage specific proof of concept through an application which displays UK census data (2001/ 2011) in its appropriate geographic context.
- We see the demand for this service as demonstrated by existing interest and utilisation of MapTube and the associated products
- What we propose here would build on MapTube as a repository for cartographic images, while allowing users extended control over the creation of new maps
- We propose two 'service enhancements' which would connect these services explicitly to MoSeS:
- Spatial modelling of attribute data from social and economic data resources (such as BHPS, GHS) allowing users to visualise distributions such as voting behaviour, personal debt, social attitudes)
- Dynamic forecasting of future demographic distributions
- We propose that development work for these services would take place in Leeds and London for two reasons:
- This is where the intellectual property and expertise in map-based service development has been accumulated
- These nodes have important relationships with third party organisations whose support will be an important part of the proposed workstrand, such as EDINA, Google, OS, Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC)
- We are still uncertain as to whether it makes sense to include EDINA (JISC National Data Centre) directly as a project member or to operate through some arms length mechanism such as a letter of support
- Rob Crouchley draft all-embracing generic use case for "discovery to delivery" in research:
- A researcher wants to carry out a subject-specific search via one or more portal interfaces and to be able to find relevant publications and data associated with their studies and to be able to find other papers which cite them. He/ she may also want to find associated grant references and appropriate funding opportunities for related work.
- The researcher then wants to access and download some of the datasets and carry out a similar piece of work using a new model, new insight or adding new data to the previous study.
- In an experimental study they might be repeating a recommended procedure on one or more new samples or applying an improved procedure to a benchmark sample.
- The researcher will afterwards discuss and share results with a peer group, using appropriate personal and group information management software and will eventually create reports and publish the results together with related data and model information.
- Rob Crouchley is thinking to remain as generic as possible.
- JISC is in the business of broad ranging infrastructure. How narrow do we need to become?
- As well as some kind of statistical service, Rob seems to be pushing for a service orientated architecture portal and other relevant tools...
- Simulation modelling
- In MoSeS we had hoped to do lots more demographic modelling and produce a vast array of results that could be analysed statistically.
- Additionally we had hoped to devise a trail of metadata so the the simulation results could be interactively investigated where they were interesting, for example investigating what leeds to extreme results.
- In MoSeS it was discovered that dynamically modelling the UK population on an individual and household level was so computationally intensive
- I outlined EUAsiaGrid MoSeS work:
- Working with University of Westminster who develop the P-GRADE portal.
- Key to this work is to get MoSeS demographic simulation running on EGEE resources with the ability to restrict it to maintain data within legislative boundaries.
- The next step is to model for Taiwan which have similar census outputs to the UK
- MoSeS/GENESIS need to think about specifying the productionising of a Portal-Based Simulation Service...
- Is there a role for CQeSS using R and Multi-R to help look at simulation?
- The statistical software is more general than that.
- This conversation reminded me of an NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project Meeting where MoSeS explored how to work with CQeSS
- other partners update
- Sean to investigate Taverna 2 and how it might integrate into a portal
- matching funding update
- Links to other funding and organisations
- EGI
- Modelling people movements at the European scale...
- FP7 Simulation and Modelling
- Mike Batty and Mark Birkin are in serious discussions about this.
- HO CBRN
- ESRC Follow on Fund
- MoSeS shaping to explore this for developing Use Case in Primary Care Trusts
- costings and division of resources
- Available Resources and broad scale allocation suggested by Rob Procter
- 17.5 person years in total
- 9 for productionising/management
- 8.5 for core substance
- Division amongst CQeSS MoSeS GeoVUE PolicyGrid DAMES MyExperiment
- project management
- date and time of next meeting
- AoB
- Misc
- Should we be thinking of this as a three year investment, or as longer term?
- Do JISC want something to be self sustaining?
- What do we meen by productionising?
- Robust, supported, easy to use, documented etc...
- CQeSS MoSeS GeoVUE are more interested in simulation, analysis, visualisation which in the research lifecycle fit between discovery and publishing.
- PolicyGrid DAMES MyExperiment are more interested in the data management, metadata and workflow
- Sean outlined what MyExperiment offers in terms of a social piece for sharing work and discovery.
- Mark seems not to want to be involved in productionising the mapping or simulation service, but I think this is something Richard Milton and others in MoSeS/GeoVUE/GENESIS are interested in...
- Action review
- From yesterdays minutes A2 is still ongoing...
- MoSeS to develop more details on productionising simulation and mapping services and on any service enhancements
- Mark Birkin and Rob Procter to start to develop a big picture document and circulate a draft tomorrow...
- This will be useful for all others developing the specifics...
- Sean to start piecing together a document for those more interested in the data management, metadata and workflow...
- Browsing
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Telecon to discuss NCeSS bid to the A2 strand of the JISC IE call
- Documentation
- People
- Attendees
- Sean Bechhofer
- Rob Procter
- June Finch
Alex Voss
- Meik Poschen
- Richard Milton
- Andy Hudson-Smith
- Pete Edwards
- Dave De Roure
- Carole Goble
- Rob Allan
- Rob Crouchley
- Mark Birkin
- Andy Turner
- Other invitees
- Peter Halfpenny
- Frank O'Donnell
- Paul Lambert
- Richard Sinnott
- Iain Buchan
- Mike Batty
- William Dutton
- Proposal/plan outlined by Rob Procter
- a) The bid will build on the existing NCeSS e-Infrastructure project:
- i) It will focus on infrastructure and services for quantitative social science
- ii) It will extend the quantitative social science demonstrator/proof of concept (outlined in the e-Infrastructure project
proposal) to build a set of production quality services
- iii) It will extend this demonstrator so that it includes new services which support (almost) the entire lifecycle. These will
include: literature search; data discovery, access, linking and management; repository services.
- b) The majority of the budget will be allocated to productionising existing demonstrator/proof of concept services and integration with a smaller proportion allocated to service development. Decisions need to be made now as to how the productionising activity will be managed. i.e., are consortium members happy to manage their own share of this resource or is it better to pool it and manage it at the Hub?
- Andy Turner outlined the work of MoSeS
- NeSS Geographic Map Development
- MoSeS geographical reporting tool and demographic simulation modelling
- MB Links to other data provider MIMAS, EDINA, ESDS
- Rob Crouchley outlines the work done with R in CQeSS
- Search for CRAN
- SABRE R
- Multi R
- R uptake is not so great in the UK compared with the US
- Research lifecycle
- Rob Crouchley sent an email about this.
- June forwarded it to me :-)
- It contains a picture of a lifecycle and a list of "Some possible tools"
- Loose and Tight Coupling of software
- We are all in agreement...
- NACTEM services?
- EDINA, UKDA
- Workflow/MyExperiment
- MyExperiment covers the entire lifecycle :-)
- NCeSS Node potential collaborators that can develop use cases:
- LifeGuide
- Links into CQeSS w.r.t. statistical analysis
- Obesity e-Lab
- Links into CQeSS w.r.t. statistical analysis
- DAMES
- Discussons with Neil Grindley from JISC who is managing this strand
- Rob Procter wants further discussion with Jeremy Neathey w.r.t ESRC buy in...
- Who do we need to do this work?
- Software developers
- Researchers
- OMII-UK
- We must not underestimate how hard it could be to put this together (the e-Infrastructure):
- There is a need for good coordination.
- We agreed to disagree whether this coordination unit needed to be located in a single place...
- Need to agree to use the relevant standards
- Coordinating Framework
- Gridsphere/P-GRADE?
- Sakai
- Misc
- Andy
- Do we want to consider specifying new work (on new tools), e.g. Reviving the Geographical analysis machines of Openshaw et al...
- Carole
- It would be good to have a use case/set of use cases that shows how it all links together.
- Needs a link to NCeSS e-Infrastructure project...
- What evidence is there that productionising these tools is desireable
- Actions:
- Each partner in the e-Infrastructure project and CASA needs to detail what they would offer in terms of a production service and what needs doing:
- Andy will try to do this for MoSeS...
- Mark Birkin to start outlining how EDINA, MIMAS and UKDA could get involved..
- Next meetings:
- AoB
- Rob Procter has set up a "section" under the NCeSS Sakai Portal : ESRC e-IP Worksite for developing this proposal...
- Getting other people involved?
- Follow up meetings with Mark
- What can we offer to provide?
- GLS development
- SWG and the development and implementation of the 1.0 Standard
- A reference implementation for OGC?
- Service used by DIaD and census.ac.uk
- Generic Map Development Service
- Service used by census.ac.uk
- ONS
- OS
- We don't want to tread on EDINA or anyones toes with this...
- Productionising MoSeS demographic modelling
- The population initialisation work is nearly there...
- Andy does not know enough about the dynamic simulation still:
- It could work as a DSIP using ONS estimates as constraints...
- Does the dynamic model need simplifying?
- To deal with Leeds an agent based student model was developed, does that mean for other towns with special dynamics (e.g. garrisson towns), we need other bespoke modeling parts.
- Whatever happened to MIGMOD?
- Plan to liaise with colleagues at EDINA etc.. with other's consent and after tomorrows meeting when our ideas are more firmed up...
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Meeting with Mark Birkin
- Agenda
- Last Meeting
- NCeSS Strategy Board Meeting
- Funding
- NeSS
- PhD
- MoSeS
- GENESIS
- AoB
- Notes
- NCeSS Strategy Board Meeting
- Mark has spoken to Mike Batty about it, but not looked at my notes.
- ...
- Funding
- NeSS
- I am to hold a tight line w.r.t. demanding resources for additional involvement in Aberdeen work.
- Mark happy for us to do extra work towards a demonstrator given that Paul is happy to do this.
- Hopefully this will be the focus of my meeting with June next week.
- PhD
- Feb 9th presentation.
- Andy to try to arrange meeting with supervisors for the week after next to discuss presentation content...
- Mark starting to think about the need to set up an Research Support Group (RSG)
- MoSeS
- Andy not done anything about data archiving yet...
- Portal progress?
- Andy to contact Paul to get demonstration portal working...
- GENESIS
- Date for February meeting?
- Mark to check/set/circulate...
- Mark to write abstract for Cologne
- AoB
- Next meeting: Thursday 3:30pm
- EUAsiaGrid
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Meeting with Paul
- NeSS
- Paul happy to work on a demonstrator and interested in metadata for services...
- Key is to get all MoSeS portlets available on NCeSS Sakai Portal
- Paul reckons this will be easy :-)
- Meeting with CASA is needed to see how non standard compliant and open source their map development tools are...
- Week of the 16th of Feb not good for Paul
- Andy will push Mark for a date of the next GENESIS meeting and will try to arrange the meeting for then.
- Workflow Report
- Paul has identified issues with existing Workflow enactors which have lead to the current design
- Noteably that they all seem to choke with WSDL that passes complex objects like HashMaps and ArrayLists
- All data seems to have to be passed in primitive form requiring XML splitters
- We wondered if Taverna 2 might overcome some of this, but were doubtful...
- Anyway, Paul going to write it all down and send it to Rob.
- I've been through the document and noted a load of typos to feedback...
- MoSeS
- Publication put online by Paul, revised and submitted :-)
- EUAsiaGrid
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Accepted invitation by Garry Smith to give a seminar on 2009-05-20 in the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading (Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET), Parallel Emergent and Distributed Architecture Laboratory (PEDAL)).
- NeSS
- Preparation for meeting tomorrow:
- Meeting with Rudradeb Mitra about Work Package 3.1
- Documentation
- Linking D3.1.6 with
- D4.1.3 Metadata Annotation Tools
- D4.1.4 A Geographic Map Development Service
- Is Paul Townend interested in D3.1.4?
- Is there liason with Paul Groth//Preserve at southampton?
- We discussed whether a financial transfer should take place to support this work.
- We agreed that D4.1.5 Development of demonstration workflows was distinct from any work ongoing in Work Package 3.1
- We agreed to meet again virtually and with Paul Townend after Rudradeb's meeting with June and Rob to try to finalise some of the delivery specifications that are still in draft.
- GENESIS, PhD
- Agreed to give a presentation about this work in the School of Geography first year doctoral seminar series on 2009-02-09 with a title "Progress on Agent Based Modelling of Daily Activity".
- EUAsiaGrid
- Globus job finishes too fast, but submission with PBS seems to work why?
- e-Science
- NCeSS Stratgey Board Meeting
- e-Science
- EUAsiaGrid
- https://ngs.leeds.ac.uk:64060/28920/1231762188/
- Browsing
- The 3rd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics (IMSCI 2009)
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Meeting with June Finch
- Updated % complete and finalised most of the deleverable specifications for Work Package 4.1
- Andy to provide a link to poster describing how GLS works...
- We compared the final deliverable specifications with the original proposal and were happy that we could defend what we have done should our funders have any concerns.
- With all the MoSeS portlets available on the NCeSS Sakai Portal and deliverables done ESRC should be happy with Work Package 4.1.
- Browsing
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Meeting with Paul and Junaid
- Junaid gave me a demo of Guanxi/LDAP/Sakai/
- Wei plans to demo this to June next week
- Junaid grappling with a new version of PERMIS
- Junaid probably the first to attempt to integrate Guanxi, Shibboleth and PERMIS :-)
- GLS services
- Andy to contact Matt Ford to ask about gls.vidar.ngs connection.
- Steve Swinsberg has taken over from Xiabo Yang as NCeSS Sakai Portal Administrator
- We should work with him to find out what is wrong with the client on this.
- It was working, and something probably changed to break it
- We don't need to know what, we just need to get it fixed.
- Andy to contact Mike Jones to ask about SARoNGS documentation.
- Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
- Events
- UK e-Science 2009 All Hands Meeting
- The 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Meeting with Mark
- Proposed agenda:
- Events/Travel
- Funding
- MoSeS
- EUAsiaGrid
- NeSS
- GENeSIS
- AoB
- Going through proposed agenda:
- Events/Travel
- NCeSS Strategy Board Meeting 2009-01-13 Manchester
- Andy to prepare, attend and report back.
- Mark to provide documentation and prepare documentation for ESRC evaluation exercise.
- There is a lot going on conference/workshop wise, we should draw up a list and decide what to target...
- Andy preparing a list on his blog...
- Mark to send Andy his current list:
- Events discussed/mentioned
- The First Open Source GIS UK Conference
- The Fourth International Workshop on Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics (GEOG-AN-MOD 09)
- The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science
- The 2009 International Conference on Computational Science: Workshop on GeoComputation
- Web 2.0 theme workshop (on infrastructure, services and applications) and its impact/influence on e-Research
- The 7th International Conference on Air Quality – Science and Application
- The 2nd General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association "Microsimulation: Bridging Data and Policy"
- The 16th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECQTG09)
- The 6th European Social Simulation Association Conference
- FOSS4G2009
- IEEE geocomp
- Taiwan
- March or April - Andy to get dates from Alex
- Funding
- MoSeS
- UKDA Results
- Need to deposit UK Population initialisation data.
- Andy needs to reformat outputs so that ISAR and HSAR ID's are output
- Documentation/metadata needs producing...
- Final report submitted and awaiting approval.
- ESRC Society Today MoSeS Page
- Friends of MoSeS list
- Andy to update and point Mark to his MoSeS People/Collaboration pages:
- EUAsiaGrid
- Still not clear how my time will be payed for...
- NeSS
- Andy meeting with Junaid and hopefully Paul ahead of meeting with June on Friday
- Pascal GEMEDA
- Workflow
- GENeSIS
- Mark wants to detail how proposed work on synthetic data based and real world data based agent based daily activity modelling fits in proposed workplans.
- ...
- AoB
- Next meeting 2009-01-16 2pm
- Need signatures for copyright transfer forms for Special issue of Social Science Computing Review...
- Andy to collect signatures from colleagues in computing tomorrow...
- CSAP away day
- Mark reported it went well and that he was expecting John to write up and circulate notes about it...
- Actions
- Andy
- Get computing colleague signatures for copyright forms for Special issue of Social Science Computing Review tomorrow.
- Prepare for, attend and report back on NCeSS Strategy Board Meeting 2009-01-13 Manchester.
- Get dates and prepare for Taiwan...
- ...
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Created a reunion profile as I got an invite purporting to be from Belinda Wu
- Catch up meeting with Mark
- Brief reminder of on-going work and review of up-coming events...
- 2009-07-08 to 2009-07-10 OGRS 2009: International Opensource Geospatial Research Symposium, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
- Need to plan for Cologne:
- 2009 International Conference on Computational Science: Workshop on GeoComputation
- Andy
- EUAsiaGrid work:
- EGEE Grid Enabling of Population Initialisation
- Need to get the code functional again after improving logging...
- Taiwan...
- Should start to look at the MoSeS Dynamic simulation model with a view to parallelising/grid enabling it...
- Alex abstract for EGEE meeting in Italy
- Mark
- Respond to Rob Procter's email sending suitable Sakai reference about JSR-168 compliance:
- Severance, C., Hardin, J., Golden, G., Crouchley, R., Fish, A., Finholt, T., Kirschner, B., Eng, J., Allan, R.J. (2007 ) Using the Sakai collaborative toolkit in e-Research applications. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 19 Issue 12, Pages 1643 - 1652. Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005). Published Online: 2007-06-07.
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114277481/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
- http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open_source_portal_servers_in_java
- Junaid funding on NeSS approved by NCeSS project board
- Next meeting:
- We will meet again on Wednesday...
- e-Science
- Mark Baker writing a proposal for a Web 2.0 theme workshop (on infrastructure, services and applications) and its impact/influence on e-Research for the Cluster 2009 conference
- MoSeS
- GENESIS, PhD
- Visualisation tool investigations:
- I hold the view that interactive 2D visualisation (including linked displays) is more useful than 3D visualisation in geography, but then in some cases these are very similar... so what tools might help with that?
- Steve Crouch who responded to my inquiries into RAVE suggested it is perhaps too specialised on 3D to meet my requirements and I look at Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO):
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