• Andy Turner's environment@leeds Meeting 2008-02-19 Web Page

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  • Introduction

    • This Web page is for information about the organisation environment@leeds Meeting on 2008-02-19 at the University of Leeds.
    • This was an open meeting to consider the organisation of a group at the University of Leeds concerned with aspects of environment research.
    • Contents:
      • People
      • Notes
      • References
      • Validation and Metadata

  • People

    • Attendees:
      • Frances Drake (SoG)
      • Lee Brown (SoG)
      • Jonathan Carravick (SoG)
      • Piers Forster (SEE)
      • Alan Haywood (SEE)
      • Manuel Gloor (SoG)
      • Andy Turner (CCG : SoG)
      • Rachael Unsworth (SoG)
      • Marjorie Wilson (SEE)
      • ...
    • Invitees:
      • ...

  • Notes

    • Introduction
      • Marjorie Wilson
      • In order to get ranked in the top 50 universities in the world we need to not only be good, but we need to have external organisations understand that.
      • http://www.estona.com/dev/gold-peak
    • Resources
      • Human reource to maintain website.
      • How much funding is needed/wanted/available?
      • Seminar program
      • Studentships
    • Conference
    • Launch Event
    • Examples to follow?
      • Earth Institute at columbia
        • http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc/
        • http://usearch.cc.columbia.edu/query.html?qt=environment
      • Tyndale centre at Unversity of East Anglia.
      • Much experience from other universities in the room.
    • Is "The Environment Institute at Leeds" a better name than "environment@leeds"?
    • Do we need another "Institute"?
      • Does this cause problems of allegence?
      • Need a physical existance?
      • The overlapping array of institutes and centres and clusters and schools at the UOL is recognised as a good thing.
    • Umbrellar Organisation Diagram Being Drawnn on a white board :-)
    • Important for an external face
      • Is this really a marketting exercise or is the plan for us to work together in a collaborative eScience way?
    • I tried to start a conversation about making use of e-Science National Institutes and their Collaborative Working Environments or Virtual Research Environments
      • NIEeS
        • SciSpace
      • There was a worry about losing "our badge" in this:
        • I don't think this is a well founded concern:
          • Consider for example a list of the top 10 experts in some search:
            • Surely it would be a good thing if many of these were ours - this would raise our profile, our badge would be there!
      • Policy
      • WUN
      • Need for a leader?
        • The noisey people think this is vital!
        • I would suggest a leaderless allocracy, but things should go this way if we embrace a good CWE.
        • Suggested leaders:
          • Alan Haywood
      • Need for a committee.
      • Do we have a collective will?
        • It seems that there is such an elephant in the room ;-)
        • It seems there is agreement that we should make use of a VRE.
        • The nominated leader (Alan Haywood) is to be asked to set up the organisation :-)
          • I hope this democratic process leads us to a desireable allocracy...
      • Andy Actions
        • Email URL for these notes to Marjorie Wilson, Piers Forster and others.

    • References

      • NIEeS
      • SciSpace
      • http://www.estona.com/dev/gold-peak
      • Andy Turner's environment@leeds Web Page

  • Validation and Metadata

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    • Version 0.1.0 of this page published on 2008-02-26.
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    • Copyright: Andy Turner, University of Leeds.