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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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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?