- Events:
- Those I am planning to attend/attended:
- JISC Conference 2009 - Opening Digital Doors
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
- Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on "Data Capture, modelling, and visualisation for ubiquitous LBS"
- OGF-25/EGEE User Forum
- Events on the horizon:
- International Symposium on Grid Computing 2009
- NGS Roadshow at the University of Bath
- Other relevant events:
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- Meeting with Alex Voss about Social Simulation tutorial at 5th International e-Social Science Conference
- VO setup
- use GILDA with the GENIUS or P-GRADE as front end
- INFN
- Andy to produce a synthetic dataset to match the scenarion Nick is putting together...
- NCeSS Sakai Portal : SocSim Tutorial Worksite : Wiki : Social Simulation Tutorial at 5th International e-Social Science Conference 2009 Page
- http://tinyurl.com/ckhq2k
- Andy to add a couple of sentences in Tutorial introduction to generate excitement about Social Simulation would be good. Why and who should come to this tutorial?
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- MoSeS, EUAsiaGrid
- Meeting with Gabor Szmetanko
- Gabor Terstyanszky recommended discussion items:
- programming issues
- algorithm & program structure
- input data management
- code improvements
- logging & testing
- testing issues
- creating a short version of the application for demos, presentations etc.
- running on NGS
- testing both the short version and "real" version on NGS
- using the NGS PGRADE portal and creating working versions
- running on EGEE (particularly on GridPP)
- discussion options & requirements
- getting further funding
- Notes
- ...
- Subversion
- Executing latest code and reproducing non-termination issues with globus/P-GRADE
- Running via pbs on ngs.leeds.ac.uk...
- Is the globus wrapper causing termination failure?
- Testing is slow because the queue is busy at ngs.leeds.ac.uk...
- Misc
- We spent much of the day sychronising the code base and getting a subversion workflow with NetBeans configured.
- A VO is registered and hosted on the NGS VOMS server and can be signed up to via:
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- e-Science
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
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- e-Science
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
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- e-Science
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
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- e-Science
- JISC Conference 2009 - Opening Digital Doors
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Upcoming Events
- 27th Urban Data Management Symposium
- 2009-06-24 to 2009-06-26, Ljubljana, Slovenija
- Programme (provisional)
- e-Science
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
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- Browsing
- Dale Southerton (2006) Practices and their Allocation: Analysing the Temporal Organization of Daily Life:: Social Constraints
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- Preparation for JISC Conference 2009 - Opening Digital Doors
- Meeting with Tim McCarthy
- Meeting with David Mullings
- Wants a bio and some links to spark local interests in the NGS Road Show Event in Bath 2009-04-15.
- http://www.bath.ac.uk/
- Sanos(sp?) social science postcode analysis data creator
- I tried but did not manage to find information about this person online...
- Julian Paget
- Jane Millar
- Meeting with Mark Birkin
- e-ISS
- Project name and setting up an NCeSS Sakai Portal Worksite
- Potential alternative names to e-ISS pronounce "ice"
- ICE, Covenant, Tabarnacle
- Andy to email others to ask for ideas, seek consensus...
- Andy to wait until name chosen then set up new worksite...
- Personnel
- Consolidation is key, Alison Heppenstall has a gap, so she could do some of this, or she could do more on GENESIS and I could do more on this (probably the latter is better).
- I am down as 20% time this currently.
- Do we need a "project manager" June Finch type person?
- Paul Townend, Junaid Arshad, others in computing...
- Funding opportunities
- I mentioned Neil Geddes encouragement to apply to EPSRC sustainable software call to support CCG
- Mark seemed interested and encouraged by that :-)
- I think he had seen my email to MASS about this...
- Events
- European Quantitative Colloquium in Maynooth
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Mark Birkin presentation and feedback session for Chair appointment
- Struggled to get my School of Geography Web Server Web Content back up to date following a horror of a copy and change of server by the web team :-(
- e-Science
- Meeting with Alex Voss, Nick Malleson
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Geomorphometrics
- Chat with Paul Norman about building a research team for geomorphometrics and geographical analysis with neural networks
- He is going to chase up interest in the proposed OS work :-)
- I think he now realises that we made a mistake not supporting Sadhvi...
- Chat with Steve about Geog5060 and finding someone to do the work on Roof Classification using Geomorphometrics and Neural Networks with Ordnance Survey
- e-Science
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- Ordnance Survey Think Tank Session on "Data Capture, modelling, and visualisation for ubiquitous LBS"
- Andy Turner's : NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : OS-CGS Think Tank 2009-03-17 Page
- 2009-03-17, Nottingham, UK
- Part of a research collaboration between CGS and OS
- 10 experts drawn from a mix of academic, commercial and industry backgrounds.
Selected experts may be invited to give brief presentations but in each case significant time will be allocated for discussion
and open exploration of likely developments and potential consequences.
- The meeting will operate according to Chatham House rules
- http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/chathamhouserule/
- The Chatham House Rule reads as follows:
- "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed".
- The world-famous Chatham House Rule may be invoked at meetings to encourage openness and the sharing of information.
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- MASS
- Feedback via email about MASS Meeting 2009-03-12
- NCeSS Sakai Portal : MASS Worksite : Mass Meeting 12th March 2009 Page
- Correlation coefficients are useful in factor analysis to show how correlated variables might be.
- A geographically weighted alternative as per GWR or GAM/KT is probably much more useful for studying geographical processes which vary spatially and/or temporally.
- To apply statistical methods to geographical processes sensibly requires a geographical way to apply the method, i.e. one that allows for variation spatially (and temporally), in other words, one that does not de facto assume independent or identically distributed variables.
- Patterns are what to get first and then look temporally for causation IMHO.
- e-Science
- Catch up meeting with Mark
- Agenda
- PhD
- GENESIS
- MoSeS
- EUAsiaGrid
- Funding
- Events
- DONM
- AOB
- Notes
- Breaking thin ice :-)
- Games talk on chess variants
- Mark knows Ian Gourley from chess background
- Going through agenda around abouts
- PhD
- Need RSG upgrade meeting in order to continue
- I should register by 2009-04-01 or be in transition to PhD discontinuation
- There is a 2 month grace period, so at the latest RSG upgrade should be arranged by mid may and documentation submitted in advance of end of grace period.
- GENESIS
- There is a work plan document in circulation by email
- 2 Meeting
- Leeds
- All Partner
- Suggested regular meetings between Andy Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Paul Townend and Andy Turner
- End of the day on Thursday's fortnightly
- First focus is to develop a more service orientated version of MapTube
- Andy Hudson-Smith to lead on this.
- Policy Applications
- Heathrow
- Olympics
- Tyndall model
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- Need to generalise dynamic model and run for the South East region of the UK
- MoSeS
- Portal
- Richard someone (possibly ESDS) has emailed with questions about the deposit to do with data use/ethics/confidentiality
- I summarised where I understood we are with this process, i.e. waiting to here back from ONS...
- Population Initialisation/Reconstruiction work
- Mark talking to Kirk and Alison about comparing results
- Kirk has some Simulated Annealing results
- Dianna Smith has some model outputs
- Mark has his IPS outputs
- Maybe I should produce some comparable GA outputs
- Optimisation constraints:
- Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Education, Marital status, Socio-economic group of some sort
- Covariate correlation of unconstrained variables measured (including tenure, car ownership, LLTI and hours worked).
- OA, LSOA, MSOA
- EUAsiaGrid
- Mark confident that a payment is going through in his name and that it will all work out fine...
- Funding
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project Demonstrator Proposals
- Provision of a map based service
- Wikimapia for demography
- Annotation of geographic maps
- Metadata for MapTube
- Mark suggested we get extra help for Daresbury and us to develop a further iteration of MoSeS portlets for the NCeSS Sakai Portal.
- I think this could be framed as integrating P-GRADE Portal with Sakai
- Alex and Gabor might like this too especially if we can contract Westminster somehow...
- Follow on Funding
- Andy to check date for next deadline
- Andy to chase up Oxford PCT person state where we are at and ask for expressions of interest
- Leeds PCT
- Jonathan Weller
- Nottingham City Council
- User assessor for MoSeS report
- EcoTown Use Case for boarder location of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire).
- I should not forget the EPSRC funding Neil pointed me to...
- Events
- Nottingham OS-CGS Think Tank
- Edinburgh meetings
- Taipei
- Paul Williamson convened Microsimulation Seminar 2009-04-02, London
- Scaling up and scaling down 2 papers Mark and Belinda covering it :-)
- Athens OGC meeting
- DONM
- AOB
- Preparation for Ordnance Survey Think Tank on "Data Capture, modelling, and visualisation for ubiquitous LBS"
- Preparation for Taiwan trip
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- e-Science
- OGF25/EGEE User Forum
- Andy Turner's :NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : OGF25 and EGEE User Forum 2009-03 Page
- http://www.ogf.org/OGF25/
- "Grid Computing & Geospatial Technologies" workshop, part of the ongoing collaboration of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the OGF in the field of geospatial grid computing.
- It will cover case studies from the geospatial domain (e.g. disaster management, civil protection, geospatial modelling etc.) which significantly benefit from technologies related to grid infrastructures.
- Current draft schedule
- The workshop will focus on discussing how the paradigms of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Geo Information Systems (GIS) can be integrated into grid middlewares or cloud computing infrastructures. It is expected that specialists from the field of SDI/GIS-Research and Development as well as specialists in the field of Grid-/Cloud-Computing will contribute reports on ongoing projects.
- People involved in the current funding phase of the OWS-6 (OpenGIS Web Service Initiative) will give insight into the current state of standardization of geospatial webservices with special regards to grid computing.
- The workshop offers a great opportunity to share ideas, discuss technical problems and explore future funding possibilities.
- Organizations and individuals working in these areas, and all areas of geospatial data processing, interested in presenting their work, discussing their requirements, and pursuing joint efforts for running code and rough consensus, are encouraged to send an title and abstract to:
- Christian Kiehle
- Bastian Baranski
- Christopher Kunz
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