Prepare an e-Research pamphlet/book

Attendees

David Ferguson (facilitator), Gillian Sinclair (scribe), Simon Hettrick, Edoardo Pignotti, Gabor Terstyanszky and Matthew Habgood.

Overview

In a previous communications session, it had been agreed that a guide to e-Research - providing a high-level overview of e-Research - would help scientists to learn about what e-Research is, and how it works. The session aimed to discuss the that was currently under development by the eIUS project.

All of the relevant details in this topic were discussed in one workshop session.

Conclusions

e-Research book

• A 110-page book, entitled Research in a Connected World and written by leaders in the e-Research field, will be made available by the eIUS project this June.
  • The book will be available as a free pdf download or, for a fee, as a print on request book
  • The book will be aimed at non-computer scientists at the undergraduate/postgraduate level
  • The workshop group were happy with the coverage of the book
  • Should attempt to publicise the book through learned societies, e.g. by asking scientists to submit a review.

Dictionary of e-Research

• The three e-Research groups present: OMII-UK, the NGS and NeSC will collaborate to produce a dictionary of e-Research terms
  • This may be formalised by becoming an OGF working group on the user community
  • A workshop will be planned where the resources needed to manage the dictionary will be agreed upon (e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook, Gridipedia, Digital Library)
  • The dictionary may have a question-led part, where users can submit a question ('What is...') and the answer will be added to the dictionary

Further work

• Finish writing book and publicise it
• Set up an OGF working group
• Identify suitable users for the OGF working group
• Identify glossary tool
• Collate/create glossary then publicise