Next Meeting
Metadata for a web 2.0 software marketplace (e.g., Bamboo)
Date: October 28
Session Leader: John Unsworth; Loretta Auvil;
Description: The Mellon Foundation is interested in supporting the sharing of web services and academic software widgets, and they would like SEASR (the NCSA software environment for advancement of scholarly research) to be able to keep track of whose web services, software widgets, etc. are being used, by whom, in order that some system of professional credit and/or a system of exchange of value could be developed across the universities whose faculty and staff contribute to the system. This has a near-term practical possibility of implementation, as part of Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/).
Background Readings:
The current draft of the Bamboo Implementation proposal, particularly section 4, "Areas of Work"
About e-Research Roundtable
The ERRT is a new CIRSS research study group focusing on information problems in the curation and integration of digital research data and the development of research cyberinfrastructure more generally. The seminar is modeled after the Metadata Roundtable (MDRT), which we’ve held regularly since 2003. It will share the MDRT time slot, with the ERRT and MDRT each meeting about twice per month on Wednesdays from 12:30 – 2:00.
The ERRT is open to researchers, faculty, staff, students and others who are interested in e-Research issues. It will be a very informal exchange around participants’ research activities and open problems and advances in the field. Meetings will be held in 341 LIS. This is located at the east end of the 3rd floor of the Library and Information Science Building (inside the Information Science Research Laboratory).
Announcements and meeting reminders for the ERRT are distributed via a mail list. To subscribe to the list, please visit the mail list Web page at https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/errt.
If you have any questions regarding ERRT, please contact Kevin Trainor at 217-333-5881 or trainor1@illinois.edu.
Future Meetings
- October 28 - Metadata for a web 2.0 software marketplace
Session Leader: John Unsworth, Loretta Auvil
Resources: Reading 1
Description: The Mellon Foundation is interested in supporting the sharing of web services and academic software widgets, and they would like SEASR (the NCSA software environment for advancement of scholarly research) to be able to keep track of whose web services, software widgets, etc. are being used, by whom, in order that some system of professional credit and/or a system of exchange of value could be developed across the universities whose faculty and staff contribute to the system. This has a near-term practical possibility of implementation, as part of Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/).
Archived Meetings
- October 28 - Metadata for a web 2.0 software marketplace
Session Leader: John Unsworth, Loretta Auvil
Resources: Reading 1; Audio
Description: The Mellon Foundation is interested in supporting the sharing of web services and academic software widgets, and they would like SEASR (the NCSA software environment for advancement of scholarly research) to be able to keep track of whose web services, software widgets, etc. are being used, by whom, in order that some system of professional credit and/or a system of exchange of value could be developed across the universities whose faculty and staff contribute to the system. This has a near-term practical possibility of implementation, as part of Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/).
- October 7 - NIF Resource Registry and Ontology
Session Leader: Anita Bandrowski (NIF, UCSD)
Resources: Slides; audio; Reading 1; Reading 2; Reading 3
Description: The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) has a resource registry of over 2200 resources that include software tools, databases, atlases, services, teaching tools and other things that we deemed "interesting to neuroscientists". The main classes of metadata will be discussed including the data model and NIF's resource ontology, recently harmonized with the Biomedical Resource Ontology.
- Sept 16 - Introduction to the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF)
Session Leader: Anita Bandrowski (NIF, UCSD)
Resources: Audio; Slides; ; NIF Web Site; NIF Federated Access Article
Description: NIF is a dynamic inventory of web-based neuroscience resources, data, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, NIF advances neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment.
- July 01 - Using Pliny to Annotate Digital Resources
Session Leader: Tim Cole (UIUC Library); Yan Wang (GSLIS student)
Resources: Reading 1; Reading 2; Reading 3; Reading 4 Reading 5
Description: For our first roundtable related to the new Open Annotation Collaboration Mellon-funded grant project, we will examine John Bradley's PLINY annotation tool. In particular we will discuss how and to what extent PLINY can be used to perform some of the scholarly functions described in Renear, Allen H.; DeRose, Steve J.; Mylonas, Elli; van Dam, Andries (1999) _An Outline for a Functional Taxonomy of Annotation_. Yan Wang and Tim Cole will lead the discussion which will include demonstrations of PLINY.
- June 10 - Science and Sceptics: blogs, climate science and reproducible research.
Session Leader: Dave Nichols
Resources: Slides; Audio; Reading 1; Reading 2;
Description: The scientific consensus on global warming is well known. Less widely known is the sceptical online community that attacks diverse aspects of this consensus. Irrespective of the validity of their criticisms of the science, their activities involve many interesting aspects of knowledge work and public policy, including: reproducibility of research, policies of academic journals, citizen science, freedom of information and scientific work practices.
- May 27 – What Defines a Data Community?
Session Leader: Carole Palmer; Melissa Cragin
Resources: Slides; Audio
- May 6 – Open Provenance Model
Session Leader: Jim Myers; Joe Futrelle
Resources: Slides; Audio; OPM Definition; Provenance Challenge Wiki; Whitepaper
Description: The discussion will include a general overview of the technical scope of the Open Provenance Model, the international community and "Provenance Challenge" activities driving its development, and NCSA's provenance management technologies. While OPM has been driven primarily by scientific workflow interests, NCSA's interest is broader; the discussion will also include OPM's potential value in electronic notebooks/electronic records, community model validation and reference data development, 'active' curation, and long-term preservation.
- April 29 – SEASR Analytics via Zotero
Session Leader: Loretta Auvil; Michael Welge
Resources: Slides; Audio
- April 15 – NASA EOS Data Levels and Traditional Text Editing
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Resources: Slides
