Workshop Overview

The workshop saw OMII-UK staff, software developers, architects and users meeting up to produce collaborative solutions to problems of interest to the e-Research community. Participants were encouraged to register well focused topics for discussion. Inviting people from outside OMII-UK to the workshop provided extremely valuable input.

Introduction and actions

Links to the introductory presentations, a final version of the agenda and a list of actions taken from all of the sessions are listed below.

The workshop used a flexible agenda, which was amended and updated as the sessions took place. If people wanted to talk about something new, or exhausted a subject, the agenda was changed accordingly. This format had been successfully used at previous OMII-UK staff meetings and was found to be productive for generating new ideas, requirements, solutions and, in general, constructively exploring the e-Research space. The final agenda is available for download.

The workshop started off with an Introduction to the OMII-UK Collaborations Workshop and an introduction to the break-out sessions, followed by a quick review of topics and selection of the first set of topics. The rest of the workshop was taken up with a mixture of break-out groups and reporting sessions. A summary session at the end of the workshop enabled us to wrap up what had been discovered and identify the most promising leads for further scrutiny.

What did people think of the Collaborations Workshop?

During the workshop, we asked people to describe their experiences, which have been collected on the What People Thought.

Attendees

A list of attendees is available on the attendees page.

Outcomes

At the end of the workshop, a list of actions from every session (first pass) was created.

Details about what was discussed at the workshop and the suggested work for the future can be found in the following table. Information from the sessions was captured in a powerpoint (using a reporting-back template). The powerpoints were then transcribed and summarised to produce the Overview, conclusions and further work listed below.

Overview, conclusions and further work	Slides
An Open Standards-based Scalable Heavy Lifting Data Transfer Service for e-Research	Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Communications between computer scientists and scientists that use computers	All slides
Accelerating the deployment and uptake of open source tools by the e-Research community what are the priorities for products, services and support? (transcription coming soon)	All slides
Code strengthening - modularising, APIs and wrapping	All slides
e-Research Pamphlet/Book	All slides
How to talk to scientists?	All slides
Open Source Development (transcription coming soon)	All slides
What support should we provide? Application vs. User Support	All slides
Prepare a slide for CPOSS to use in presentations	View slide
Best practices for software development in research community (transcription coming soon)
Repositories, archives and curating raw data (transcription coming soon)	View slides
Facilitating Collaborations – tooling and processes	View slides
Open source development tools	View slides
Firewalls, NHS and other organisations’ access to NGS resources]	View slides (transcription coming soon)
Providing Security in e-Infrastructure to Meet the Needs of e-Research	View slides, View notes
Tracking customer requirements using e.g. CRMs, HiRise, SalesForce.com	View slides
Portals Applications and all that... (transcription coming soon)	View slides

Pre-workshop page

Now that the Collaborations Workshop 2009 has taken place, this page has been adapted to describe what happened. If you wish to see what topics were suggested before the Collaborations Workshop took place, please visit the Pre-workshop page.

Photos

Some photos from the workshop.

People coming in in the morning:

Another morning shot:

A break out session:

Reporting back on the Tracking customer requirements using e.g. CRMs, HiRise, SalesForce.com session: