Andy Turner's MoSeS Meeting 2006-05-26 Page

Andy Turner's MoSeS Home Page

People

• Mark
• Paul
• Andy

Ice Breaker

• Got some of the low down from Paul on the China trip :)

Documentation

• MOSES PROJECT PLAN Draft Word Document circulated by Mark
• Super Computing Draft Abstract Word Document circulated by Mark
• Portal Design Draft Powerpoint file circulated by Mark

Agenda

• Portal development

Notes

• Start by going through documentation circulated by Mark
  • Project Plan document drafted by Mark when he was in San Diego last month
• Supercomputing in Tampa (SC06) November
  • EPSRC funding being saught to fund attendance
  • NeSC coordinating and deadline for responses is Wednesday
• Portal development
  • Need a wrapper around MoSeS simulations to show them off
  • What will our portal look like?
  • What platform will we develop on?
  • Who is the portal designed for?
  • Marks worries about what users will be capable of...
  • Andy's thoughts on the ideal portal?
    • Flexible, many baseline datasets...
    • Presentation as cartograms...
    • Organic development
      • Set up the minimum and the users start generating new results and data based on what is in there
  • What do we need as a reasonable minimum?
    • Single baseline population dataset
    • Single forecast
    • Health applications
    • Health service planning scenarios
• Important Considerations
  • GUI standards are improving all the time
  • Mark is concerned that things look good
  • SC06 audience attention will not be grabbed if the thing doesn't look good enough
  • I think we all like the idea of MoSeS on a mobile phone/pdra
  • What platform are we going to use?
  • What are the license and security issues?
  • "Mark doesn't want to get into any of that Danny Dorling cartogram stuff FULL STOP"
• Actions
  • Email the geotools list and ask where should we start
  • Paul will begin writing a portal framework
  • Email paul Vision of Britain URL
  • Andy to send Paul some MSOA and attribute data as GML and shapefiles (Leeds)