Notes from Session 1

Exemplar fields with a cyberinfrastructure

• Nanotech (nanohub.org) (dwight)
• Geo sciences (pangaea.de) (cornelius)
• Geo Sciences (Svalbard...) (terry)
• Bioscience (openwetware.org) (steve)
• Astronomy (scott)

Dimensions to investigate

• use/importance of UIs
• query APIs
• BIG vs small data
• human vs non-human data
• static vs dynamic data
• ability to manipulate data and metadata
• barrier to contributing data vs. value added functionality
• collaboration support (overcome time/space)
• degree of organization of field (fundamental data structures)
• institutional setup
• cloud computing
• what are the scientific questions that we want a CI to be addressing?

Technologies

• Freebase (steve)
• Linkeddata (markup langs, xml, rdf) (scott)
• Knowledge editors (scott)
• (Protege)
• db's (google fusion table) (cornelius)
• Mashups (Yahoo! pipes) (dwight)
• Many eyes (cornellius)

Applications of CI
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* geosci

Linguistics CI
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To what extent are parts of a ling. CI already built, and for other reasons?

TextGrid

Mashups
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WALS




Misc
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Group 5 is the consulting firm, how can apply what we know to specific fields?

What's the buy-in ?


access to cycles Grid computing?

e-humanities desktop

monk project

paper (in zoology):
http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/view/210/111

see Emily's slides, and list of projects at:

http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/LSA2009.html