Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting 2008-02-13 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- For information about the NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Away Day Meeting on 2008-02-13 in Manchester.
- Contents:
People
- Attendees
  - Lancaster/Daresbury/ReDRess
  - Essex/UKDA
    - Ken Miller
  - UCL/CASA/GeoVUE
    - Richard Milton
  - Manchester/NCeSS Hub
  - Leeds/MoSeS
    - Junaid Arshad
    - Andy Turner
  - Oxford/OeSS
    - Mustafizur Rahman
  - PolicyGrid
    - Pete Edwards
Agenda
- 10:00 Coffee & Arrivals
- 10:30 Welcome (June Finch)
- 10:35 Work Package Reports (All)
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 external link: CESSDA - Relationship with eInfrastructure (Ken Miller)
- 14:00 User Engagements (All)
- 14:40 Coffee Break
- 15:00 Project Support Technologies/Status (All)
- 15:30 Project Communications & Cross-Package Work (All)
- 16:00 Close
Documentation
- Links to Portal Resources
  - Wiki Pages
Notes
- Going through the agenda
  - 10:00 Coffee & Arrivals
    - Met Mustafizur Rahman (Mustie)
  - 10:30 Welcome (June Finch)
  - 10:35 Work Package Reports (All)
    - Work Package 1.1
      - Ken
    - Work Package 2
      - Pascal
      - Still no decision on what is happening with this.
      - There is a further meeting tomorrow.
      - ConverterGrid
        
        Factored out old security
        
        Adding in new security based on ... (I didn't catch the details of this, but want to know what they were...)
      - Integrating GEMS
        
        Need for a Cold Fusion license
      - Choosing data sets
        
        Rob Proctor suggesting asking new nodes, in particular Stirling...
        
        Pascal asked Simon Peters
        
        ESDS MIMAS
        
        Data
        
        World Bank
        
        IMF data
      - GEMEDA is getting old and hard to get working now.
    - Work Package 3.1
      - Pete Edwards not yet here, so we can't really address this bit in order.
      - UDDI service registry
        
        Rob Allan
        
        Needs to know what services there are before they can make progress with that.
    - Work Package 3.2
      - Wei Jie presented on progress in a project meeting.
      - There is a need to start and flesh out a wiki page for this.
      - Rob Allan doing some work on this and the work on identity and roles clearly overlaps :-)
        
        Further information to follow...
    - Work Package 3.3
      - Xiaobo Yang, Rob Allan
      - What do new nodes want in terms of tools for the portal?
        
        Discussion on-going with Obesity eLab
        
        How to get GeoVUE who are launching a new product channelling the community through the portal to encourage awareness of the program?
    - Work Package 3.4
      - Rob Allan
      - Getting background information in place on workflow tools
      - Started work on developing 3 Use Cases
        
        MoSeS report generation process is one :-).
        
        NaCTeM another (based on Kepler).
    - Work Package 3.5
      - Dan Grose
    - To be continued after Ken's CESSDA presentation...
  - 12:30 Lunch
    - Brought forward in the program as it has all taken a bit longer than expected...
    - Chat with Alex Voss
      - EGEE
      - ...
  - 13:30 CESSDA - Relationship with eInfrastructure (Ken Miller)
    - Council of European Social Science Data Archives
      - This has been going on for some time as collections of projects, but has been given new impetus by European Commission funding.
      - http://www.cessda.org
      - It would be good to link to a copy of Ken's presentation slides...
        
        Are they a Resource on the NCeSS Sakai Portal?
  - Work Package Reports (All) continued...
    - Work Package 3.1
      - Pete Edwards
    - Work Package 4.1
      - Andy Turner and Pete Edwards
      - Work Package 4.1 Report 2008-02-13
      - Pete Edwards Work Package 4.1 Report 2008-02-13 eInfrastructure-wp41-policygrid.doc
      - Pete's copied me his report and I added it as a resource in the Worksite saying I would cut and paste the information together into a coherent report on Work Package 4.1.
    - Work Package 4.2
      - Mustafizur Rahman (Mustie)
        
        Report due next month.
        
        Rob Proctor gave us a reminder of delayed call about Provision of a Virtual Safe Setting from National Data Strategy
        
        Any details should be out in the next months, but I could not find details with a Web Search
        
        The limitations are not technical, they are social
        
        e.g. People keep hold of their data because they have vested interests rather than concerns over the security of the data
        
        Publication vetting is useful way to go for security/confidentiality inappropriate use concerns.
    - Work Package 5
    - Work Package 6
    - Work Package 7
  - 14:00 User Engagements (All)
  - 14:40 Coffee Break
  - 15:00 Project Support Technologies/Status (All)
    - All to use a feedback about portal for it's development
  - 15:30 Project Communications & Cross-Package Work (All)
    - I think we covered this earlier in the day and agreed to use the NCeSS Sakai Portal, organise resources in a Work Package structure and use the Wiki to glue everything together.
  - 15:55 AoB
    - Collaboration with NGS
      - Pascal Ekin raised this and all agreed that this is something we should be doing.
  - 16:00 Close
    - Thanks everyone :-)
    - Any feedback for the format of the day to June Finch
    - Any feedback from other user communities
      - Perhaps MASS can do this?
- Some Issues Raised
  - How to finalise deliverables
  - Need for a sandpit to play with datasets
  - Need for a ColdFusion license
- Some Interesting Ideas
  - What is needed is a set of Geographical Analysis and Explanations Machines :-)
  - What about the Cultaptation Tournament and the collaborating groups entering?
    - Could they benefit from NCeSS work?
  - Using TinyURL to shorten URLs to be more manageable
    - Is this a reliable service?
    - Does it generate the types of URL that are wanted?
- Opportunities
  - Rob Proctor mentions a call from the National Data Strategy for something like a Virtual Safe Setting
    - This links to an issue raised on the need for a sandpit
  - On-going need for new driver projects
- Data sets mentioned
  - UKHLS
  - PLASC
  - National Pupils Dataset
Blog
- 2008-02-18 Read Katy's notes and record of actions and edited this page and tidies some of the wiki pages.
- 2008-02-13 Created and linked NCeSS Sakai Portal : ESRC e-IP Worksite : Wiki : Andy Turner's NCeSS e-infrastructure Project Meeting 2008-02-13 Notes Page for this meeting.
- 2008-02-06 Initialised NCeSS Sakai Portal : ESRC e-IP Worksite : Wiki : NCeSS e-infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project Meeting 2008-02-13 Page for this meeting.
Action List
- Andy Turner
  - Develop notes.
  - Compile Work Package 4.1 documentation into a single report (integrate in Pete Edwards' report as provided into Work Package 4.1 Report 2008-02-13
References

Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting 2008-02-13 Web Page

Introduction

People

Agenda

Documentation

Notes

Blog

Action List

References

Validation and Metadata