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About e-Research Roundtable
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The e-Research Roundtable (ERRT) is a 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 ERRT will meet on most Wednesdays when classes are in
session. Meetings will be held from 12:30 - 2:00 in 242 LISB unless announced otherwise.
The ERRT is open to researchers, faculty, staff, students and others who are interested
in e-Research issues. It is a very informal exchange around participants' research activities and
open problems and advances in the field.
Announcements and meeting reminders for the ERRT are distributed via a mail list.
To subscribe to the list, please visit the ERRT Mail List Web page.
If you have any questions regarding ERRT, please contact Janet Eke at 217-333-4701 or
jeke@illinois.edu.
Future Meetings
Archived Meetings
- May 25, 2011 -- Linked Open Data for Libraries
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Location: This session will take place in 341 LISB.
Description: Richard Urban will participate in the Linked Open Data for Libraries Archives and Museums Summit in June.
This ERRT will introduce attendees to the Linked Data movement and the W3C Linked Library Data Incubator. At the Summit Urban will be leading a
discussion about LOD and current approaches for sharing metadata for cultural heritage collections through the Open Archives Initiative - Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting.
Resources:
LOD-LAM Summit
W3C Linked Library Data Incubator
Tim Berners Lee - Linked Data
Haslhofer, B. & Schandi, B. (2010) Interweaving OAI-PMH data sources with the linked data cloud. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 5(1), pp. 17-31
- May 11, 2011 -- Europeana Data Model
Session Leaders: Katrina Fenlon and Peter Organisciak
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Description: With more than 10 million items, Europeana is Europe's largest aggregation of digital cultural heritage resources from libraries,
archives, and museums. This session will explore the Europeana Data Model, a new proposal for structuring the data that Europeana will be ingesting, managing and
publishing. The Europeana Data Model is designed to replace the Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE), the basic data model that Europeana began life with. Each of
the different heritage sectors represented in Europeana uses different data standards, and ESE reduced these to the lowest common denominator. EDM reverses this
reductive approach and is an attempt to transcend the respective information perspectives of the sectors that are represented in Europeana – the museums, archives,
audiovisual collections and libraries. EDM is not built on any particular community standard but rather adopts an open, cross-domain Semantic Web-based framework
that can accommodate the range and richness of particular community standards such as LIDO [LIDO] for museums, EAD1 for archives or METS2 for digital libraries.
Resource:
Europeana Data Model primer
- May 4, 2011 -- What's in a name? Problems with Relationships in FRAD
Session Leader: Liza Coburn
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Location: This session will take place in 341 LISB.
Description: FRAD (functional requirements for authority data), a product of the FRANAR working group, is an extension of FRBR.
The goal of a project undertaken last fall by University of Illinois Library Senior Coordinating Cataloger Qiang Jin and GSLIS student Liza Coburn has been to explain
FRAD through entity-relationship diagramming, the way that Robert Maxwell did with FRBR (FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed, 2009).
Along the way they have
discovered some problems with the FRAD model, and these problems will be the focus in this session of ERRT. In a deviation from the usual ERRT format, Coburn
will present a brief introduction to FRAD (with the hope that participants will be able to review the model documentation on their own, ahead of time)
and the project, the problems encountered, and then will open it up for discussion to see what we can come up with.
Resource:
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) A Conceptual Model. Final Report. December 2008 IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering
of Authority Records (FRANAR).
- April 27, 2011 -- Units, measures, and physical quantities in WolframAlpha
Session Leader: Michael Trott (Content manager for physics at Wolfram|Alpha)
Description: All quantitative measurement values come with units (like meters,
kilograms, pascals, volts, ...) . In addition to the modern SI, there
are thousands of different units in use, sometimes for historical,
sometimes for geographic reasons. Recognizing units and converting
between them is very important for dimensional calculations,
data statistics, and more. The structure of the unit system of
Wolfram|Alpha and the statistics about the use of units will be discussed.
- April 13, 2011 -- Enabling Long-Term Access to Born-Digital Materials on CD-ROMs: Migration, Emulation, and Imperative to Pool Technical Knowledge
Session Leader: Geoffrey Brown,
Professor of Computer Science at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Description: For the past 20 years, CD-ROMs have been the primary media for distributing key economic, scientific, environmental,
and societal data as well as educational and scholarly work. Indeed, 10,000's of titles have been published including thousands distributed by the United States and
other governments. Yet no viable strategy has been developed to ensure that these materials will be accessible to future generations of scholars. In the short term,
these materials are subject to physical degradation which will make them ultimately unreadable and, in the long-term, technological obsolescence will make their
contents unusable.
The diaries of H.R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon's chief of staff, were published in their entirety on CD-ROM, but only in abridged
form on paper. References by Haldeman to Mark Felt, who was unveiled as the Watergate source, appear only on the CD-ROM version. This CD-ROM no longer operates in
modern Windows environments, but can be accessed, with some effort, in an emulation environment. In other cases, the files on a CD-ROM can still be accessed, but may
be in obsolete formats. Finally, many publications of government agencies are available only for local use in a few libraries.
I will discuss two
aspects of our work in digital preservation: the creation of a browsable networked archive of the approximately 5000 CD-ROMs published by the United States Government
Printing Office and the development of emulation technologies to enable future scholars ready access to materials such as the Haldeman diaries.
The goals for this roundtable are to discuss the limits of the available technological solutions, the social implications their implementation,
and the legal constraints on deploying them.
Resources:
Kam Woods and Geoffrey Brown. Creating Virtual CD-ROM Collections
Stuart Granger. "Emulation as a Preservation Strategy".
Copyright Law Section 108
- March 30, 2011 -- The Digital Public Library of America Initiative: Considering Content and Scope
Session Leader: Carole Palmer (Director of CIRSS)
Archive: Audio (mp3), Slides
Description: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) initiative began in December 2010 with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
This ERRT session will provide an overview of the initiative and the first working meeting held at Harvard on March 1st on content and scope issues.
We will discuss themes that emerged from the meeting and questions about Europeana as a model for DPLA and possible roles for our Digital Collections
and Content project and the inclusion of the aggregation in DPLA.
Resources:
DPLA Wiki: Please review the Content and Scope section, and the workshop links, in particular.
Workshop participants are listed here.
See also a recently released Concept Note, an outcome of the March 1st meeting.
See the main DPLA website at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard for additional information and context.
- March 16, 2011 -- Progress Report: Revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Archive: Audio (mp3), Slides
Description: The Dublin Core 1:1 Principle exhorts metadata creators to create descriptions that describe one,
and only one resource. But how is that that metadata describes anything at all, let alone one and only one thing? This session will
explore how traditional puzzles about description and reference help us understand 1:1 Principle violations.
Resources:
MILLER, S.. The One-To-One Principle: Challenges in Current Practice. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications,
North America, 0, sep. 2010. Available at: http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/view/1043. Date accessed: 05 Mar. 2011.
Ludlow, Peter, "Descriptions", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming.
- March 2, 2011 -- Disciplinary Culture And Interoperability, An Incompatible Mix?
Session Leader: Carl Lagoze,
Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University
Archive: Slides, Audio (mp3)
Location: This session will take place in 341 LISB.
Description: interoperability: A key enabler of cyberinfrastructure development is the ability to discover and deploy functionality that leverages commonalities amongst the practices of scientists in diverse fields, thereby allowing data sharing and other collaborative activities amongst them. However, there is good evidence from the literature that individual disciplinary cultures are deeply culturally embedded and based on the number of factors including the nature of the research, the economic value of the research products, and in some cases dysfunctional, historically-based path dependencies. Our own work examining the research practices and collaborative patterns of chemists and physicists has shown strong evidence of this.
Designers and researchers of cyberinfrastructure are faced with two unpleasant alternatives. Ignore aspects of these disciplinary idiosyncrasies and possibly create cyberinfrastructure that its target communities resist. Or, accommodate these differences by creating lowest common denominator cyberinfrastructure that fails to provide sufficient functionality to really facilitate new scientific practices.
These are some of the questions we face the Data Conservancy project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation to research, prototype, and possibly develop new cyber infrastructure for data Curation. I certainly don't know the answers to these questions and look forward to a stimulate discussion on the best way to approach this problem.
Background Material:
- P.N. Edwards, S.J. Jackson, G.C. Bowker, and C.P. Knobel, Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design, National Science Foundation, 2007.
- C.L. Palmer and M.H. Cragin, Scholarship and disciplinary practices, Annual review of information science and technology, vol. 42, 2008, p. 163212.
- T. Velden and C. Lagoze, Communicating Chemistry, Nature Chemistry, vol. 1, 2009.
- T. Velden, A.-ul Haque, and C. Lagoze, A new approach to analyzing patterns of collaboration in co-authorship networks: mesoscopic analysis and interpretation, Scientometrics, Apr. 2010.
- February 16, 2011 -- Technology's positive impact on the cultural heritage of Native American tribes
Session Leader:
Biagio Arobba
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Description:
At this session, Biagio Arobba will introduce his background in semantic middleware and Native American communities,
discuss his heritage (and answer any questions), and explain his interest in social media, the Web, and mobile devices
and why he believes they will help Native American communities with culture, language, and heritage preservation.
Semantic middleware, originally developed for e-science, has the potential to be transformational for Native American communities.
We all know (or assume) that Native American languages are disappearing. You might be surprised to learn that over half of the
pre-colonial Native American languages in the United States are still spoken today; but, that number is changing dramatically.
Many Native American people are concerned with the disappearance of their spoken languages, and there is a desire
for ... something ... to help the people in Native American communities, and local government organization, increase fluency
among their peers.
There are both problems and opportunities. For example, many places in the United States are resistant to multi-lingual education.
Then, working with local government and tribal agencies can be a nightmare. On the other hand, tribes in the United States have far
better access to digital media and the Internet than would a community in the Amazon rain forest. Additionally, Native American
children in either tribal communities or communities with relatively high Native American populations are drawn to social media,
gaming, and mobile devices. The majority of elderly and young parents want the digital age for today's generation.
Also, there are lots of research and methods for teaching major world languages, but many of these same techniques aren't quite
right for smaller minority language communities. In recent years, a growing number of tools have been popping up across the Internet
(possibly because more attention is being paid to minority languages, or simply because computers, best practices, and the Internet
have reached the necessary critical mass to make this possible). Mr. Arobba in his work looks for any way to reduce the need for
reinventing the database for every application, to reduce time-to-deployment, and to make user interfaces easier for everyday users.
Resources:
Arobba, B., R.E. McGrath, J. Futrelle, and A.B. Craig, "A Community-Based Social Media Approach for Preserving Endangered Languages and Culture" In: "The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations" workshop at 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3, 2011.
Live and Tell
- January 26, 2011 -- Report on IDCC 2010
Session Leaders: Tiffany Chao, Liza Coburn, Simone Sacchi, Nic Weber, Laurence Cook, and Trevor Munoz
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Description:
These student participants in the IDCC 2010 will report out on the conference, summarizing the workshops and the other conference sessions that they attended.
- January 19, 2011 -- Briefings from the front:
RDA testing at GSLIS
Session Leaders: MJ Han and Kathryn La Barre
Archive: Audio (mp3), Slides
Description:
MJ Han and Kathryn La Barre will be discussing preliminary results of the recently concluded RDA
test practicum, and the experiences of the 3 instructors, 5 library faculty and 8 students who
participated in the test. We will pay particular attention to MJ's experience creating
RDA/Dublin Core records.
Resources:
If you want to know more about the test of RDA please view the first slides from this presentation.
The later slides offer comparisons between the existing code AACR2 and RDA, changes to MARC, and
preparation strategies.
Judith Kuhagen & RDA: Resource, Description and Access Essentials
- The U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Plan
- Critical differences between AACR2 and RDA
- Changes to MARC21
- How to best prepare yourself, your colleagues, and your library
Resources:
Download presentation with speaker notes (ppt 3 MB)
RDA bibliography (doc)
- December 1, 2010 -- The Impact of Massive Data on Astronomy
Session Leader: Robert Brunner (Astronomy)
Archive: Slides
Description:
As we tackle ever more difficult questions, Astronomy is evolving from a data-poor to a data-rich scientific discipline. In this presentation, I will discuss the questions we are trying to address, introduce the projects and data that are being (or soon will be) produced, and present some of the challenges and opportunities that we now face.
Resources:
The Post-Singularity Future Of Astronomy:
Astronomy could be the first discipline in which the rate of discovery by machines outpaces humans' ability to interpret it
Next-generation astronomy
We regret that the recording of Roberts session was lost due to technical difficulties.
- November 17, 2010 -- Working with Supplementary Materials -
data, software, scripts - to Dissertations and Theses
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Description:
Illinois has allowed electronic deposit of theses and dissertations since 2009 and is now mandating
such deposit with Fall 2010. We now allow deposit of supplementary materials along side these ETDs
and all of this material will appear in IDEALS. I will discuss the range of materials we're seeing
and how we are approaching some of the stewardship issues. We can also discuss more generally the
successes and obstacles to the ETD program.
Resources:
The IDEALS collection for theses and dissertations
Illinois Graduate College Thesis Office Page
- November 10, 2010 -- Europeana Semantic Elements: supporting cross-domain, European metadata exchange
Session Leader: Katrina Fenlon
Archive: Audio (mp3)
Description:
Europeana is Europe's multimedia, on-line library/museum/archive: an ambitious aggregation
of digital resources from all heritage sectors in all 27 European Union member states. This
presentation will introduce the Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) version 3.3, the Dublin
Core-based metadata set underlying the portal. ESE supports cross-domain metadata provision
to the current version of the Europeana aggregation. The presentation will also make a very
brief introduction to Europeana Data Model, the Semantic Web-based data model intended to
replace ESE as the standard for description and exchange in the next release of the Europeana portal.
Resources:
Semantic Elements Specification, Version 3.3, 19/07/2010.
Metadata Mapping & Normalisation Guidelines for the Europeana Semantic Elements, Version 2.0, 19/07/2010.
- October 20, 2010 -- Linked Data Issues
Session Leader: Joe Futrelle
Archive: Audio (mp3), Prep Notes
Description:
Joe has been planning this session on Linked Data Issues based upon questions and issues
submitted by ERRT members. It promises to be a very interesting session.
- October 13, 2010 -- Describing artifacts: A look at the concepts of CDWA
Session Leader: Peter Organisciak
Archive: Audio (mp3), Slides
Description:
The description of artwork and other material culture carries with it a unique set of challenges.
CDWA, represented in XML with the CDWA-Lite schema, is one framework for classifying such artifacts.
We will look at the features of CDWA and discuss the principles that inform it. Finally we may
consider varying definitions of art itself and the implications that the act of classification brings.
Resources:
Baca, Murtha. (Ed.) (2006) Cataloging cultural objects :a guide to describing cultural works and their images.
Available as e-book from http://www.library.illinois.edu/
J. Paul Getty Trust. Categories for the Description of Works of Art.
Available at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/index.html
- October 6, 2010 -- Glimpses of future research practice: a musical study
Session Leader: David De Roure (Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University )
Archive: Audio (mp3),
Slides,
Demo
Description:
10 years ago we saw a few early adopters of e-Science technology; now we see acceleration of research
through broader adoption and sharing of tools, techniques and artifacts, both for 'big science' and
the 'long tail scientist'. Will this incremental trend continue or are we seeing glimpses of a phase
change ahead, where researchers harness these emerging digital capabilities to address research
questions in ways that simply were not possible before? This talk will draw on examples in music
information retrieval and linked data from the NEMA and SALAMI projects, together with glimpses of
research from the myExperiment social website, to suggest we are now moving into the next
(and very exciting!) phase of research practice.
- September 29, 2010 -- Dispatches From the Field (Part 2)
Session Leaders: Liza Coburn, Aaron Collie, Tracy Popp, Lynn Yarmey
Description:
GSLIS MS and CAS students will be presenting summaries of their data curation internship work. Each presentation will be followed by a brief roundtable discussion.
- September 22, 2010 -- I Think Therefore I Am Someone Else: Understanding
the confusion of granularity with Continuant/Occurrent
and related perspective shifts
Session Leader: Jim Myers
Resources:
Galton, A., Mizoguchi, R,: The water falls but the waterfall does not fall: New Perspectives on objects, processes, and events, Applied Ontology 4 71-107 (2009)
Grenon, P., Smith, B., "SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology", Spatial Cognition & Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1. (2004), pp. 69-104.
Description:
Over the past few years, there has been a broad effort to define common requirements for provenance,
to outline real-world use cases, to define core models of provenance, and to assess interoperability of
existing systems. In these discussions, there has been recognition that there are a variety of levels
of granularity and a variety of types of processes for which provenance is a critical enabler. Further,
there has been a recognition that many use cases of interest require integration of provenance
information across these dimensions. To a large extent, the issues involved in such integration has
been viewed as simple matters of aggregation, i.e. requiring concepts such as "collections" of
artifacts and composite processes. However, the need for constructs such as agents (as in the Open
Provenance Model) hint at deeper issues related to the concepts of identity and distinctions between
continuant and occurrent (or endurant and perdurant respectively), and of versions and replicas. This
work develops a set of concrete examples where such issues arise in provenance, discusses the core
conceptual distinctions involved, and postulates a basic mechanism for extending provenance models to
enable integration across granularities and process types, recognizing the OPM "agent" concept as a
special case.
- September 15, 2010 -- ERRT Planning Session
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer, Kevin Trainor
Description:
Please bring your ideas about roundtable sessions that you would like included on the schedule. This includes
completely new ideas, as well as previously suggested sessions that have not made it onto the schedule.
- September 1, 2010 -- Dispatches From the Field (Part 1)
Session Leaders: Naomi Bloch, Ana Lucic, Trevor Munoz, Dana Muvceski, Gina Reis, Karen Wickett
Description:
GSLIS MS, CAS, and PhD students will be presenting summaries of their data curation internship work and conference workshop
participation. Each presentation will be followed by a brief roundtable discussion.
- April 14, 2010 -- The Claim Framework (Part 2)
Session Leader: Cathy Blake
Resources: http://bibapp.org/
Description:
[see Part 1 description]
- April 28, 2010 -- BibApp project
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Resources: http://bibapp.org/
- March 10, 2010 -- The Claim Framework (Part 1)
Session Leader: Cathy Blake
Resources: Beyond genes, proteins, and abstracts: Identifying scientific claims from full-text biomedical articles
Description:
Massive increases in electronically available text have spurred a variety of natural language processing
methods to automatically identify relationships from text; however, existing annotated collections comprise
only bioinformatics (gene-protein) or clinical informatics (treatment-disease) relationships. This
paper introduces the Claim Framework that reflects how authors across biomedical spectrum communicate
findings in empirical studies. The Framework captures different levels of evidence by differentiating
between explicit and implicit claims, and by capturing under-specified claims such as correlations, comparisons,
and observations. The results from 29 full-text articles show that authors report fewer than
7.84% of scientific claims in an abstract, thus revealing the urgent need for text mining systems to consider
the full-text of an article rather than just the abstract. The results also show that authors typically
report explicit claims (77.12%) rather than an observations (9.23%), correlations (5.39%), comparisons
(5.11%) or implicit claims (2.7%). Informed by the initial manual annotations, we introduce an automated
approach that uses syntax and semantics to identify explicit claims automatically and measure the
degree to which each feature contributes to the overall precision and recall. Results show that a combination
of semantics and syntax is required to achieve the best system performance.
- February 24, 2010 -- Data is the network: link or die
Session Leader: Joe Futrelle
Resources: RDF FAQ; Linked Data; Science Commons; Audio (.mp3); Slides
Description: In a world dominated by social networking and wireless communication, most scientific information remains stubbornly locked up in specialized databases, repositories and domain-specific applications. New strategies are needed to free all of this information from the rigid containers, frameworks and work processes in which it is born and increasingly dies. Can data be organized as an active, evolving, open network of heterogeneous concerns and affordances, free of the control of any single software agent or framework? Joe Futrelle will describe promising new opportunities making data radically portable and worthy of long-term preservation and access, drawing on several projects in the "semantic grid," e-science and digital preservation communities.
- January 27, 2010 -- Joint Metadata Roundtable and E-Research Roundtable
Session Leader: Oksana Zavalina; Kevin Trainor
Resources: ERRT; MDRT
Description: An informal discussion of our members' current research interests. This ERRT/MDRT joint planning meeting for will take place on Wednesday, January 20, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in LIS341 (ISRL Fishbowl) on the third floor of GSLIS building.
- October 28, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- What Defines a Data Community?
Session Leader: Carole Palmer; Melissa Cragin
Resources: Slides; Audio
- May 6, 2009 -- 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, 2009 -- SEASR Analytics via Zotero
Session Leader: Loretta Auvil; Michael Welge
Resources: Slides; Audio
- April 15, 2009 -- NASA EOS Data Levels and Traditional Text Editing
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Resources: Slides
