- Events:
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- Third Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS 2011)
- Effective use of programming in scientific research - producing more reliable results, more quickly
- Workshop on Dynamic Distributed Data-Intensive Applications, Programming Abstractions, and Systems (3DAPAS)
- https://sites.google.com/site/3dapas/
- To be held in conjunction with the 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
- 2011-06-08, San Jose, California, USA.
- Royal Society Townhall Meeting on Open Science
- Events on the horizon:
- The seventh IEEE e-Science conference (IEEE e-Science 2011)
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011
- The Difference that Makes a Difference: an interdisciplinary workshop on information and technology
- Geocomputation 2011
- Census 2011: impact and potential: Exploring the research potential of the 2011 census: A conference convened by the ESRC Census Programme with the Royal Statistical Society Census Study Group
- Town Meeting to discuss the Future of e-Science and HPC Infrastructures and Applications in the UK
- Funding Opportunities
- ESRC
- Demonstrator projects
- Sustainability projects
- Deadline for applications: 2011-06-02
- Google Research Awards
- JISC
- Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
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- Teaching
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- Leeds: From local to global meeting (GEOG1025)
- People
- John
- Rachael
- Myles
- Andy
- David
- Martin
- Recap on the module structure
- For each 4 components there are:
- 10 lectures
- 10 seminars
- 4 hours student centred learning
- Tutorial program
- Joint seminar at the end
- What questions David wants answering
- Who is going to manage each component?
- Economies - Sarah
- Population - John
- Futures - Rachael
- Cultural -David
- Who is to develop material?
- Martin to contribute a bit to each component
- Who is to deliver material?
- Format of module information and consideration of GEOG1010 templates
- I mentioned that we can go directly with the RDF/XML and HTML data format rather than with Microsoft word and powerpoint formats
- data.leeds.ac.uk
- Focus on (learning) outcomes (The students will learn about:)
- Considering research questions
- What resources are needed to address a question?
- Identifying existing and on-going work on the topic
- Developed data skills
- Identifying if the data exists
- Identifying if the data is available or what is needed to make the data available.
- Evaluating data quality
- Filling gaps in data
- Appreciating theory
- Effective group work
- Becoming more open minded
- What are the other outcomes, what skills and knowledge are they developing and how are they contributing?
- I want them to:
- Be going out into the environment and using sensors and interactive mobile ITC to collect use and link data. They can focus on and social issue, or we can give them things to investigate, or they can go out and find out what is going on.
- Learn about what Libraries, Museums, Archives, places of learning and organisations about studying and being in Leeds exist.
- Form their own psychogeography groups and explore, describe and link data practicing with blogs and wiki's and Web 2.0 services.
- Assessment
- Group project and presentation for each component passs to progress and the best mark counts
- Miscellanea
- Myles thinks we have to get them [students] away from thinking everything is on the web.
- Do Universities need buildings?
e-Science
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- Preparing for NGS Collaboration board meeting 2011-07-06
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- Arc1 Leeds HEC Meeting
- Presentation: 'What happens after a supernova - the evolution of pulsars'
- Dr Chris Wareing
- SPEME, School of Mathematics, and HPC user support
- Modelling the magnetic field of the crab nebular in 2D and 3D
- Discussion
- Resolution
- 512 x 512 x 512 10 decade
- Testing a 1024 x 1024 x 1024 decade
- MPI FFTW (fast fourier transform)
- Model initially seeded from synthetic data
- Using 32 processors seemingly having no memory issues...
- How well does it scale?
- Parallel programming support
- MPI training course
- Arc1 software environment
- Presentation/discussion lead by Mark Dixon
- Current software environment and update to software
- module system
- module avail
- module load java
- etc...
- I asked about Maven which Mark will investigate getting on as Nick wants it too :-)
- Developing the wiki to encourage communities of users for particular software to form
- Discussion of queue configuration
- I wondered about if the sophistication of the queue would improve once the Arc front end was available...
- News and events
- AOB
- Q: How much space is reasonable to use on /nobackup and how many files?
- /nobackup is currently
- A 115TB Lustre (parallel) file system
- The minimum block size for a file is 1MB
- 80% full currently and this is about as full as it should be
- Currently an untouched file has a 90 day lifetime
- There are currently 300 users, so if /nobackup was shared evenly, we would only get a little bit
- File storage is a big issue, users without anywhere to store there data post processing are keeping data on the system clogging it up...
- I asked about reducing the 90 day lifetime by half, but there was opposition to this
- Subject of next presentation
- Date of next meeting
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- SoG Newsletter item submitted
- Andy Turner has been busy catalyzing the development of Leeds Linked Open Data (LOD). He met with the University of Leeds Web Team on 2011-06-23 details of this meeting including a briefing document, presentation slide material and notes are available via the following URL:
- Placeholders are now setup of Leeds LOD at http://data.leeds.ac.uk and http://id.leeds.ac.uk
- Teaching
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- GEOG2300 Email Liaison with Sarah-Jane Saint-Ruth
- e-Science
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- Leeds LOD Meeting
- Open collaborative note taking:
- Andy Turner's presentation slides
- Meeting outcomes
- Place holders for identifiers and data set up
- Now thinking about how best to start developing Leeds RDF/XML...
- Psychogeography
- e-Science
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- Preparation for GeoComputation
- Preparation for Leeds LOD meeting on 2011-06-23
- What do I want from the meeting?
- What am I prepared to do?
- What do I want the university to do?
- People
- Jeremy Harmer
- David O'Brien
- Paul Stanton
- Richard Ashby
- Paul Alexander
- Claire Duxbury
- Andy Turner
- Briefing paper being prepared by Andy was circulated
- Community engagement
- Blogging
- Posted on Twitter
- Hirst T. (2011) Open Data Powered Location Based Services in UK Higher Education
- Emailing
- Previously emailed Bo Middleton to ask about university Data Policy...
- Previously emailed Buildingdata lists...
- Emailed Chris Gutteridge
- Emailed Chris Gutteridge, Tony Hirst and Paul Stanton
- Searching
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- Circulated data.leeds.ac.uk briefing document
- Turner A.G.D. (2011) Developing and using data.leeds.ac.uk as (open) (geospatial) linked data. A briefing document for the University of Leeds for a Web Team meeting on 2011-06-23 (Version 1.0 2011-06-21)
- Teaching
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- GEOG1300 Sent documentation (exceptional essays) for scruitinisation of my GEOG1300 assessents
- e-Science
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- Meeting with Che Wan Amiruddin Samsudin (Amir) about e-Social Science metadata and Cloud Computing
- Amir cam well prepared and with an audio recorder :-)
- It is always good to have a first face to face meeting in collaborative working. I look forward to working with Amir and seeing where his project leads...
- e-ISS
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- Collaboration with Ian Turton on Geographical Analayis Technology Development
- Getting back to grips with the code...
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- Joined public-lod@w3.org
- Getting closer to being able to perform a cost benefit analysis of research:
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- Developing a biography of Stan Openshaw
- Links for Stan on GoogleBooks
- Openshaw S., Steadman P., Greene O. (1983) Doomsday: Britain after Nuclear Attack ISBN 0-631-13393-3
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In 1086 "William the Conqueror ordered a survey to be made of the land which he had conquered and of the people under his rule. Only much later did the survey come to be known as 'Domesday', that is the 'day of judgement' - a reckoning to be compared with those books described in Revelation by which 'the dead were judged out of those things which were written.' If Britain were to be 'conquerored' again, this time with nuclear weapons, what would be the condition of its land and how many people might be left living? These are the questions which this new 'Doomsday' book sets out to answer."
- The book claimed to provide "for the first time, in the open literature, a detailed and comprehensive account of the effects of nuclear attack on Britain, both nationally and locally."
- (The Domesday Book is now available on-line http://www.domesdaybook.net/)
- The introduction carefully sets the book in the context. The Contents is listed as follows:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Nuclear Strategies
- Possible Nuclear Wars
- Soviet Weapons and their Targets
- Patterns of Nuclear Attack
- Estimating the Effects of Attack
- Immediate Casualties and Damage
- The Aftermath of Attack
- Home Office Calculations of the Effects of Attack
- Civil Defence and its Effectiveness
- Andy's notes on the book linking to more work by Stan with a focus on nuclear geography
- Working back to front
- It is always useful to have an Index and the one for this book is well done.
- The notes section is extensive and provides detailed references for sources of information and is disaggregated by chapter.
- There are 6 appendices:
- List of targets and details of attack scenarios
- Providing details of the location and nature of the targets with an acronym buster at the end.
- Methods for calculating thermal radiant exposure levels
- Methods for deriving shapes and sizes of idealized fallout plumes
- Modelling the build-up and radioactive decay fallout
- Casualties in Attacks A to K, by county, calculated as percentages of the pre-attack population
- Approximations of Home Office blast cacualty rates used in the authors' replica of the Home Office computer model
- The chapters contain clarifying maps and diagrams and are written in eloquantly and with balance of argument and in a clear matter of fact way. The overriding message is that: The scenario of a full scale nuclear attack (including a retaliatory attack) on Britain by the Soviet Union would have an all but completely destructive effect, the country would be decimated.
- This brings us back to the introduction which stands as an example of what a introductory book chapter should be.
- Stan's personal book dedication written in his own hand in his own copy of the book is "To Mam with love Stan (1984-11-26)". I expect his copy is the one he gave to his Mum.
- Andy's one line book review:
- It is work of brilliance, testament to the talent and skill of the authors as researchers and scientists attempting to remove bias from the process of geographical analysis. An inspirational warning and a resource for future generations. To date we have avoided nuclear attack, forever may that be the case. The book shows the likely horror in terms of casualty and fatality statistics of nuclear war. Experiencing the horror would be almost impossible to cope with. Peace be with you.
- If you have read my notes, I hope they inspire you to dip into a copy of the book.
- Andy to contact Basil Blackwell publisher ...
- Press/media/journalistic attention taken from newspaper cuttings provided by Stan
- Lashmar P., McKie R., Lean G. (1986-05-11) 'How the cover was blown'. The Observer, starting on page 11 and continuing on another under the subtitle "Confusion in Britain".
- "Dr Openshawe [sic] believes such plans [to evacuate residents following a nuclear incident] are inadequate."
- Following the Chernobyl nuclear accident which happened later in the year after the book was published.
- Robertson C. (nodate) 'Chernobyl: can it happen here?'. Source unknown.
- Fairley M. (1986-02-17) 'Nuclear sites safety gamble - claim : Reactor sites worry lecturer'. Article in The Journal.
- The article refers to the Doomsday book and Britain lack of preparedness for nuclear incidents. It also alludes to Stan's work on the likely impacts of nuclear war.
- Armstrong J. (nodate, but probably 1990) 'Survey into child cancer'. Source unknown.
- Four years on from Stan identifying a 'Tyneside cancer cluster'
- Lutz R. (1983-03-08) 'North's role in N-war alert'. The Journal
- This article illustrates Stan's impartiality and work as a scientist seeking truth and information for planning purposes to help people, particularly his countrymen.
- It provides some details of Stan's work on estimating the impacts of a nuclear war on Britain.
- Morris P. (1984-09-10) 'Nuclear attack would decimate North-East : Hardly Any Survivors'. Evening Chronicle (The North-East's Most Popular Paper).
- About Stan's latest work providing local authority district resolution estimates of casualty rates.
- Hearst D. (1984-08-08) '80pc casualties 'after 219 megaton attack''. The Guardian.
- This shows maps of estimated nuclear death rates under Northerly and South-south-westerly wind directions.
- Boseley S. (2011-05-07) Nuclear power does not cause leukaemia, say experts. The Guradian article, page 10.
- This is a provocative article provided to Stan by his friends Colin Wymer and Alan Gillard on a visit in 2011
- Once upon a time Darren Smith and I applied to the ESRC to study the Ephemeral City Festival the is Galstobury. We called the proposal the Conteporary Temporary City Case Study of Glastonbury... It has been my resident and favourite city in the way back when. Oh Glastonbury Festival of Entertainment and Joyous People, what memories :-)
- e-Science
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- Preparations for developing data.leeds.ac.uk
- SimValidation meeting
- Meeting details
- Location: St Andrews
- Attendees
- Eduroam worked :-)
- What do I want
- Agree on what to do in terms of general project outline and funding to target for a SimValidation project
- Consider other projects and funding
- To be interviewed about sustainability for NeISS
- Notes
- I had hoped that we would be collaboratively working on a GoogleDoc document
- Progress on SimValidation
- Alex agreed to explore a joint EPSRC ESRC proposal to look at validating simulation models with case studies of geographical models
- The rough outline is that Alex would be the PI in practice although it may be best to use the figure head of a more distinguished academic
- Alex would get a research assistant in post and mange the project from St Andrews
- Andy Turner/Andy Evans to Co-I and manage and be responsible for the work at Leeds
- Tom to be Co-I and manage and be responsible for the work at NeSC Glasgow
- Next step
- Alex to talk to his head of school about this and report back
- Andy to feedback to Andy Evans
- Tom to think about involving someone else from NeSC Glasgow
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- Preparing for University of Leeds Web Team (Geo) Linked Open Data Meeting on 2011-06-23
- People
- Jeremy Harmer
- David O'Brien
- Paul Stanton
- Richard Ashby
- Paul Alexander
- Claire Duxbury
- Andy Turner
- Briefing paper being prepared by Andy
- Community engagement
- Emailed Bo Middleton to ask about university Data Policy
- Emailed Buildingdata lists
- Posted on Twitter
- Emailed Chris Gutteridge
- Emailed Chris Gutteridge, Tony Hirst and Paul Stanton
- Teaching
- e-Science
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- Preparing for SimValidation meeting on 2011-06-17 (tomorrow)
- What do I want
- Agree on what to do in terms of general project outline and funding to target for a SimValidation project
- Consider other projects and funding
- To be interviewed about sustainability for NeISS
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Teaching
- e-Science
- Preparing for SimValidation meeting on 2011-06-17
- Email NGS Liason Officer Gillian Sinclair
- e-ISS
- Emailed Rob Procter about NeISS outreach
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- CSAP Meeting
- 11 Attendees
- Business
- Martin Clarke and Graham Glarke to take over line management of the school academic staff who's primary research cluster affiliation is CSAP
- The request publciation plans and documentation for their line management duties
- I emailed Gill Valentine and Mark Birkin for clarification about whether this applied to me also...
- GIS and Remote Sensing Post
- Paul Norman getting this sorted
- 2 chair proposals
- Gloabl challenges
- Talisman - LiveDifference
- Demographics
- Phil Rees replacement
- Away day 2011-07-12
- Noon business meeting in SoG then on to Harrogate
- RSVP required
- Teaching
- Level 1 CSAP teaching in a practical course in semester 2
- ESRC HEFCE Undergraduate Quantitative Methods Initiative: Curriculum Innovation and Researcher Development Initiative
- Leeds Linked Open Data
- I gave a heads up about the meeting on the 2011-06-23
- Presentation by Michael from Ryerson University who has been working with Steve on a work placement to do with visibility analysis and human impact on wilderness quality for Scottish Natural Herritage
- It was a good and thought provoking talk :-)
- Teaching
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- GEOG1300 Returned Marks
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- GEOG1025: Leeds: from local to global Module Planning Meeting
- The 20-credit joint honours version code is: GEOG1035
- People
- Documentation
- David shared paper documentation
- Andy to put documentation onto sharepoint...
- Andy's notes from previous meetings
- Notes
- Timetable
- Open linked data development
- Preference to use OpenStreetMap for anything physically based
- For other information about places without reference to physical artifacts, we need some other way to describe and organise the information
- We can develop thematic GIS type data.
- Using wikipedia or similar text based wiki resources with links to place geometry or geonames also considered...
- On-line mobile apps
- Disabled routing
- Campus QR codes and campus mapping
- Tutorial outline
- Read two articles:
- Stillwell, J. and Phillips, D. (2006) Diversity and change: understanding the ethnic geographies of Leeds, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 32: 1131-1152
- Unsworth, R., Ball, S., Bauman, I., Chatterton, P., Goldring, A., Hill, K. and Julier, G. (2011) Building resilience and well-being in the margins within the city, City 15: 181-203
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- Find the physical document in the library
- Proof of finding the article in the library.
- Photo
- QR codes, time stamps and md5 document check sums in the library
- Develop (one page) note that summarises each article and includes a quotation, citation and reference
- Compare summaries
- Develop (one page) note about the methods used in developing the articles
- Compare method notes and have a focussed session on methodology
- Reflections on the articles
- What is the research for?
- What are the vested interests and bias?
- Is there detailed reflection in the articles and identification and consideration of contrary views?
- Engaging in discussion (part 1): How do others cite the article
- Using WOS to find other articles that refer to it
- What is the context of citing the article?
- Engaging in discussion (part 2): Searching for blogs and other online content
- How to cite and reference web content.
- Appreciating web content and peer reviewed journal articles
- Engaging in discussion (part 3): Q&A session with article authors
- Initimidation and critical engagement
- Assessment for the module
- Treasure hunt:
- Visit Livi's, David's and Nichola's doors. On each door will be a reference. Find the common reference in the articles referred to there, then go to the library and take a photo of you with a copy.
- Final Exercise: Pick an article and review it using the method you have learned.
- David has a document about this to discuss at the next meeting...
- Martin's free reign document
- Controversy and big ideas
- Was Leeds the Germans choice for a northern headquarters after winning the battle of Britain in World War II?
- White Cloth Hall
- Town-house on Woodhouse Lane
- Bond Street
- Quarry Hill
- 3D model projected onto a wall in the Leeds City Museum
- Co-op
- 1897 Map of Leeds
- Andy purchased a copy from Brian Jackson for £20 with rights to copy and redistribute
- Seminar pairs
- Part one - constructing a topic
- Part two - deconstructing and sharing experience in studying the topic
- Celebration of the fountain of knowledge
- Bootstrapping and standing on the shoulders of giants
- How we are not going round in circles, but enriching data in a reaction to develop knowledge
- How we are part of a community in both physically and virtually.
- Next meeting
- 2011-06-29
- Detail roles and responsibilities
- Miscellanea
- Others to involve:
- Sara Thornes from the library
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- Livi Michael
- People from outside (external to University of Leeds) organisations?
- How to get them involved?
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- Lippy films
- Psychogeography
- Redesigning leeds for when the oil runs out
- A future planning exercise with physical and virtual models
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- Leeds Open Linked Data Meeting (2011-06-23) Preparation
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- MoSeS
- ESDS Data Submission in order and being processed
- http://www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/licence.asp
- I provided a copy of the paper in review for Environment and Planning A for the documentation
- I may as well throw this on-line too...
- On my To Do List is also an action to contact data and computational resource providers to make them aware of the publications and availability of data in due course...
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- Email to Samantha Bowman F.A.O. Water@Leeds
- Last week I was reading a thread about the idea for an Open Stream Map project (which would hopefully link with) Open Street Map (the Open Map project in due course). Due to the more ephemeral nature and dynamism of these geographical features (streams), they are pushing the data model for storing historical or time stamped information. The thread of the discussion is open and perhaps of interest to some members of Water@Leeds. Here follows a URL link to the initial email and thread of conversation:
- http://www.wateratleeds.org/
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- Considering the School of Geography Masters Computer Lab as Grid Resource...
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Richardson S., Guihenneuc-Jouyaux C. (2009) Impact of Cliff and Ord (1969, 1981) on Spatial Epidemiology. Geographical Analysis, 41: 444-451. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2009.00774.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1538-4632.2009.00774.x/abstract
- Unfortunately lacking references to the work of Openshaw et al.
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Author(s): Sattar J. Aboud (Middle East University for Graduate Studies, Jordan), Mohammad Al Fayoumi (Middle East University for Graduate Studies, Jordan), and Mohamed Alnuaimi (Middle East University for Graduate Studies, Jordan)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Discrete Event Simulation Environments: Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Evon M. O. Abu-Taieh (Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan), and Asim A. El-Sheikh (Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sector, Jordan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-774-4.ch004
ISBN13: 978-1-60566-774-4
ISBN10: 1-60566-774-9
EISBN13: 978-1-60566-775-1
Keywords: Grid & High Performance Computing / High Performance Computing / Information Science Reference / Software, Computer Science & Engineering
http://www.irma-international.org/chapter/verification-validation-simulation-models/38257/
- http://www.ipbrief.net/2011/05/31/the-european-commission-tackles-orphan-works/
- http://chronicle.com/article/Journal-Ranking-System-Gets/127737/
- http://citymapper.co.uk/
- http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/90/
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_mapping_platform_geocommons_launc.php
- http://science.okfn.org/2011/05/19/royal-society-townhall-meeting-on-open-science/
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