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Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)

Nikki Rogers (ILRT)

Presentation to the JISC VRE Programme meeting

29th November 2007

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Contents

• Background

• Partners & Project staff

• CREW Software

• Architecture & Software Design

• Key Technical Challenges

• Demo, Planned Releases and User

Engagement

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Background

VRE 1

VRE 2 CREW

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Iugo (VRE1 Project)

Instant Messagingor IRC Log

e-mail listarchive

messages

Personal Blogsand photo archivesetc. of members of

the audience

Alerting Services

Event web site

Related ExternalContent e.g.

project web pages

Examples of web-based content related to asingle conference or event presentation

Presenterspersonal

homepage

Web-basedannotation

services

£££’s

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Iugo (VRE1 Project)

• Linking data using Semantic Web technology

• Reusing open source software – SWED

http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/

• Identifiers to link ‘things’, RDF schemas for

events, event outputs, people, organisations …

• RDF backend (Jena), Java J2EE app

• User interface – Search + Facet Browse

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Iugo (VRE1 Project)

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Iugo (VRE1 Project)

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Iugo (VRE1 Project)

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Memetic (VRE1 Project)

• A new concept in ‘minuting meetings’ recorded

over Access Grid?

• A toolkit:

• Compendium – concept mapping software &

• ScreenStreamer - broadcast the contents of a

computer screen to other participants. Recordable

alongside compendium content.

• Annotations data stored using Semantic Web

technology

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Memetic (VRE1 Project)

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The Whole is greater than sum of the parts? …

VRE 1

VRE 2 CREW

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Partners & Project staff

• Project Manager:

– Michael Daw (Manchester)

• Technical Manager: – Nikki Rogers (Bristol)

• Development Team:– Mike Jones (Bristol)– Andrew Rowley (Manchester)– Anja Le Blanc (Manchester)– Tobias Schiebeck (Manchester)

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Partners & Project staff

• Evaluation/User Liason:– Roger Slack (Bangor)– Meik Poschen (Manchester)

• Users/co-investigators:– Andy Hall (IHS – Manchester)– Rebecca Jones (IHS – Manchester)– Caroline Williams (Intute – Manchester)– Emma Place (Intute – Bristol)– Andy Priest (Intute – Manchester)– Martin Turner (Visualization groups –

Manchester)

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CREW Software

Record Event

Edit RecordingSearch

Events

Replay Event

Sync slides with speaker

recording

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CREW Software

Record Event

Edit Recording

Search Events Replay

Event

Sync slides with speaker

recording

Organise Event

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Key Technical Challenges

• User annotations –> security, retraction,

provenance tracking

• Caching in the Events app

• Integrating tagging with formal vocabs

• Distributed architecture(s) / workflow

(number of possible exit strategies)

• User-friendly replay of recordings from events

• User-friendly editing software

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National Service/

Event website

RACE Project?

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Planned Releases

• RELEASE 1: end Sep 2007 RE (Research Events

Application) - ability for user to replay recordings includ. slide

presentations & Q&A sessions

• RELEASE 2: end Feb 2008 Scientific Viz users - focus

on testing usability of recording/editing functionality

• RELEASE 3: June 2008 focus on more major events e.g.

ESRC Research Methods Festival & the Events app

• RELEASE 4: Nov 2008

• RELEASE 5: Feb 2009

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Links

• CREW Version 1 Events Application online

demo:

http://ralter.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ReaWebapp/

• CREW development wiki:

http://kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/rss-wiki/CREW

• CREW website:

http://www.crew-vre.net/

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Questions?