This is the pre-workshop page for the Collaborations Workshop 2009

The Collaborations Workshop 2009 has now taken place. If you would like to see the outcomes from the workshop, please go the the Collaborations workshop page.

Workshop Overview

This meeting aims to engage OMII-UK staff, software developers, architects and users to come up with collaborative solutions, or approaches, to problems of interest to the e-Research community. Participants are encouraged to register well focused topics with requirements, if any, for discussion with short descriptions below.

This format has been successfully used at previous OMII-UK staff meetings. These have been found to be productive for generating new ideas, requirements, solutions and, in general, constructively exploring the e-Research space. We have found that inviting people from outside OMII-UK to previous meetings have provided valuable input and they, in turn, have found these meetings to be very productive hence we are opening up the meeting to all interested parties.

How can I get involved?

To register please visit the NeSC registration page. Once registered, attendees can indicate which of the topics are of interest to them. On the day, break out groups will be scheduled to come up with solutions for topics via: discussion, writing of software or by trying to deploy existing components to work together. Topics will be examined for as long as required within the duration of the meeting (or beyond) - it is up to the group members to judge when an adequate conclusions has been drawn. There will be regular reporting to the other attendees summarising what has been achieved up to that point, what is to be done next or whether a topic has been exhausted. Once a topic has been discussed the group will migrate to a new topic or disband and join other groups after writing up a set of summary slides enumerating outcomes and possible future work (if any).

Workshop Format

The workshop will start off with a set of introductory presentations giving some of the aims, background of OMII-UK. A quick review of topics and selection of the first set of topics then a mixture of break-out groups, reporting sessions followed by more break out sessions.

A summary session will be held at the close of play for each day. This will enable us to wrap up what we have discovered and identify the most promising leads for further scrutiny.

Audience Profile

We are looking forward to meeting up with around 50 like-minded software developers, architects and e-Researchers with a connection to, or at an least interest in, OMII-UK. The workshop is primarily targeted at OMII-UK staff and partners but if you have an interest in e-Research or if you have a challenge that could benefit from an e-Research solution then you are welcome to apply to attend. Formally, partners refers to OMII-UK Product/Area Liaisons PALs, CSP collaborators and those involved in ENGAGE based projects.

Poster session

There will be a poster session during lunch for both days. Recent achievements from the Engage Initiative projects will be on show but if you would like to submit a poster showing of your recent success stories or tools for the e-Research community we would welcome that too.

Break-out session topics

The themes and topics for the break-out sessions is currently being finalised but there is still time to suggest new ones: do you have some work-in-progress that you would like to share or a e-Research challenge that you would like to unpick?

Ideas and suggestions should be sent to info@omii.ac.uk

Alternatively, if you have a wiki login (you can get this by registering) you should be able to edit this page and add a topic directly (please follow the pattern established by the entries already added).

Key challenges ahead for e-Research tools & infrastructure

• Porting applications to the NGS
  • Sign ups: David Meredith, Weijian Fang, Gabor, Shantenu, Steve B

• Portals/VREs and the NGS - linking applications and tools to the NGS for users
  • Sign ups: Stuart Aitken, David Meredith, Weijian Fang, Gabor, Gerson Galang, Steve B

• Firewalls and communities - NHS challenges and solutions
  • Sign ups: Gagarine

• Facilitating Collaborations - tooling and processes
  • Sign ups: Damian Brasher, Mario, Gabor, Peter Turner, Alex Arana, Steve B

• Providing Security in e-Infrastructure to Meet the Needs of e-Research
  • Sign-ups: Steve Crouch, Weijian Fang, Gagarine, Alex Arana, Gerson Galang

• Communication problems between computer scientists and scientist who use computers
  • Sign-ups: Matthew Habgood, Tim Parkinson, Gabor, Peter Turner, Alex Arana, Simon Hettrick, Gillian, Steve B

• What have scientists got from e-Science so far, and what do they want?
  • Sign-ups: Matthew Habgood, Tim Parkinson, Gillian, Shantenu, Steve B, Simon Hettrick

• SLAs in e-Science: necessity or burden?
  • Sign-ups:

• PAG the Next Generation
  • Sign-ups: Tim Parkinson

Evolving Open Standards with their Implementations for Large Scale e-Science

• An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research
  • Sign-ups: Peter Turner, David Meredith, Gerson Galang, Alex Arana, Steve Crouch, Weijian Fang, Mario, Shantenu
  • Notes I
  • Notes II

• Capitalising on the OGF Parameter Sweep JSDL Extension Specification
  • Sign-ups: David Meredith, Steve Crouch, Weijian Fang, Andrew Price

Software Development: practical steps to make Open Source fit for purpose

• Code strengthening - modularising, APIs and wrapping: the OMII-UK approach
  • Attendees: PascalE, MikeJ, TobiasS, ClaireS, AaronT

• Open Source/Open Development
  • Sign ups: Damian Brasher, MikeJ, Mario, Alex Arana, Gerson Galang

Opportunities: where can we make an impact?

• Repositories, archives and libraries
  • Sign ups: Damian Brasher, Peter Turner, Alex Arana, Gerson Galang
• Visualisation, annotation and Grids
  • Sign ups: Tim Parkinson

OMII-UK Processes: what does the community need from us?

• Evaluating the OMII-UK software testing process
  • Sign ups: Gerson Galang
• Evaluating the OMII-UK collaborative software development process
  • Sign ups: Gerson Galang, Steve Lee

Outreach and Engagement

• Accelerating the deployment and uptake of open source tools by the e-Research community: what are the priorities for products, services and support?
  • Sign ups: Damian Brasher, Gagarine, Alex Arana, Gerson Galang

• Improving communication with CSPs, PALs and partner organisations
  • Sign ups: Simon Hettrick, Gillian, Steve B

• What support should we provide? Application vs. User Support
  • Sign ups: Tim Parkinson, David Wallom, Phil Kershaw, Aaron Turner, Pascal Ekin, Neil Chue Hong Slides

Presentations and Reports

The slides below provide a summary of the discussion of the break out topics reported back to the main group. The reporting-back template was suggested as the way of doing this. The session agenda was used to dynamically schedule the break out sessions.

Day 1

• OMII-UK Collaborations Intro
• Introduction to the break out sessions
• Session 1
  • An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research
  • Communications between computer scientists and scientists that use computers
  • Accelerating the deployment and uptake of open source tools by the e-Research community: what are the priorities for products, services and support?
  • Code strengthening - modularising, APIs and wrapping
• Session 2
  • An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research
  • e-Research Pamphlet/Book
  • How to talk to scientists?
  • Open Source Development
  • What support should we provide? Application vs. User Support
• Session 3
  • Discussion on the day and what to do on the following day.

Day 2

• Session 1
  • An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research
  • Prepare a slide for CPOSS to use in presentations
  • Best practices for software development in research community
  • Repositories, archives and curating raw data
• Session 2
  • An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research
  • Facilitating Collaborations – tooling and processes
    • Portlet Access Grid - the next generation
    • OGSA-DAI Experience
    • JISC DIASER collaboration
  • Open source development tools
  • Firewalls, NHS and other organisations’ access to NGS resources
• Session 3
  • SecurityInEInfrastructure.ppt, Security Session Notes.doc
  • Tracking customer requirements using e.g. CRMs, HiRise, SalesForce.com
  • Portals Applications and all that…
• Session 4 (wrap up)
  • Actions (first pass)

Timetable

The actual selection of topics will not actually take place until nearer the workshop. Breakout areas at NeSC: Newhaven, Crammond, Chapter House, Dean Room (if available) and any other space that can be found.

Day 1

09:30	OMII-UK Introduction and Vision	Newhaven
10:00	Overview and Process for the two days & Initial Selection of Break out sessions	Newhaven
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Breakout session	Various rooms
12:30	Lunch and Poster Session	Chapter House
14:00	Summary of Breakout sessions - continue/stop	Newhaven
14:30	Breakout sessions	Various rooms
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Summary of Breakout session - continue/stop	Newhaven
16:00	Continuation/new breakout sessions	Various rooms
17:30	Summary of Breakout session - continue/stop	Newhaven
18:00	Close
19:30	Conference Meal	Hotel du Vin, 11 Bristo Place

Day 2

09:00	Start Meeting - Summary of Progress	Newhaven
09:30	Continuation/new breakout sessions	Various rooms
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Summary of Breakout session - continue/stop	Newhaven
11:30	Continuation/new breakout sessions	Various rooms
13:00	Lunch and Poster Session	Chapterhouse
14:00	Continuation/new breakout sessions	Various rooms
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Summaries and drawing conclusions	Newhaven
16:00	Close