Workshop Session 1 - OMII-UK

Time:	17:00 - 20:00
Chair:	June Finch
Venue:	Conference Room 1

Summary

OMII-UK is an open source organisation that empowers the UK research community by providing software for use by researchers in disciplines as diverse as Bioinformatics, Astrophysics and Archaeology. All of our software is free and fully supported.

OMII-UK was formed in January 2006 as a partnership between the existing OMII activity at the University of Southampton, and software activities at the University of Manchester within the myGrid project and the OGSA-DAI project at the National e-Science Centre and EPCC. Our groups have been producing e-Research software individually since 2001.

Many researchers would benefit from access to emerging e-Infrastructure - such as the Grid - but are put off by software that is difficult to implement and use. OMII-UK’s Software Solutions solve these problems by providing the functionality needed by researchers in an easy-to-use and easy-to-install package.

Our first three Software Solutions address the primary needs of researchers: accessing computing power, enabling the sharing of data in collaborations and automating scientific experiments with workflows. In addition to our Software Solutions, we also provide the OMII-UK Development Kit, which can be used to create your own bespoke software.

In this workshop, we present a selection of recently funded Commissioned Software programme projects, together with an opportunity for all attendees to see how OMII-UK can benefit them. We also launch the OMII-UK Open Forum and invite the attendees to take the opportunity to help shape OMII-UK's activities.

Agenda

Time	ID	Presentation	Presenter
17:00		Overview of Workshop	June Finch
17:05	841	Portalization Process for the Access Grid	Andrew Rowley
17:35	857	Workflows Hosted In Portals	Kurt Mueller
18:05	885	From Open Source to long-term sustainability: Review of Business Models and Case studies	Victor Chang
18:35		What can OMII-UK do for you as an individual	Neil Chue Hong
19:00		OMII-UK Open Forum	Neil Chue Hong
19:05		myExperiment with mining biomedical literature using the AIDA toolbox and Taverna	Marco Roos
19:35		Survey of participants	June Finch
19:55		Summary of Workshop	June Finch

Please note Neil Chue Hong also gave the following presentation in Workshop 2 - OMII-UK: From Software to Sustainable Systems

Photos

Victor Chang presenting his Software Sustainability Models paper:

Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK Director presents "What OMII-UK can do for you as an individual:

Marco Roos, OMII-UK PAL presents the use of Taverna Workbench for VLE Text Mining: