ECDL 2006 - DLSci06 - UQueensland eResearch projects

Jane Hunter
Next Generation Digital Library Services for eScience - Delivering on the Hype
U Queensland

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jane/
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/

Big List of eScience Middleware

DART project

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/dart/

[list of work packages]

* Secure annotation e.g. with Shibboleth?
* Integration of Fedora and Storage Research Broker (SRB)

* Improving search interfaces

Case Studies

* microscopists
* protein crystallographers
* environmental/ecosystem scientists
* VIRGIL project

GRANI project for Nanostructural Analysis Network Organization

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/grani/

Challenges

[huge list]

eScience Workflow

http://kepler-project.org/

Kepler
BPEL4WS

Modelling eScience Provenance

Tools for scientific provenance, with different levels of views.

Scientific Model Package - everything wrapped up into data + publication ***

Stuff about teleobservation of experiments

DART - Annotation of Crystallographic Structures

You could almost automate the creation of a paper about a new structure - by integration with data.

[demo of advanced annotation of 3D crystallographic data structure]

Semantic WildNet

* integrate bird/snake sightings with climate sensor data with topographic data
* SPARQL query interface + Google Earth

Collaborative Tools

* Chat
* Videoconf
  - Access Grid Sessions
* Wikis, Blogs
* Shared Applications

Vannotea

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/vannotea/

Collaborative Multimedia Annotation
3D Object Annotation

Secure Annotation e.g. on eprints server

The annotation server is a sidebar for a browser

Q (me): What about preservation
A: We have a project that is addressing that

PANIC (Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections)

http://metadata.net/panic/

Q: Will this content be reusable?  The tools are very domain-specific.
A: Very aware of this issue.  Have already demonstrated reuse of content.  Developing core services.

Q: What are some shared pieces of infrastructure?

A: Workflow
Realtime Shared App
Data integration
E-lab notebooks