TY - CONF T1 - The W3C PROV family of specifications for modelling provenance metadata T2 - EDBT Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paolo Missier A1 - Khalid Belhajjame A1 - James Cheney JF - EDBT ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Web-based Science Gateways for Structural Bioinformatics Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gesing, Sandra PB - University of Tübingen UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-67822 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Workflow-enhanced conformational analysis of guanidine zinc complexes via a science gateway T2 - HealthGrid Applications and Technologies Meet Science Gateways for Life Sciences Y1 - 2012 A1 - Herres-Pawlis, Sonja A1 - Birkenheuer, Georg A1 - Brinkmann, André A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Jäkel, René A1 - Kohlbacher, Oliver A1 - Krüger, Jens A1 - Dos Santos Vieira, Ines JF - HealthGrid Applications and Technologies Meet Science Gateways for Life Sciences PB - IOS Press ER - TY - CONF T1 - Workflow Interoperability in a Grid Portal for Molecular Simulations T2 - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG10) Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Marton, Istvan A1 - Birkenheuer, Georg A1 - Schuller, Bernd A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Krüger, Jens A1 - Breuers, Sebastian A1 - Blunk, Dirk A1 - Fels, Gregor A1 - Packschies, Lars A1 - Brinkmann, André A1 - Kohlbacher, Oliver A1 - Kozlovszky, Miklos JF - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG10) PB - Consorzio COMETA ER - TY - CONF T1 - Widening Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services T2 - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science Y1 - 2008 A1 - Voss, A. A1 - Asgari-Targhi, M. A1 - Procter, R. A1 - Halfpenny, P. A1 - Dunn, S. A1 - Fragkouli, E. A1 - Anderson, S. A1 - Hughes, L. A1 - Mineter, M. A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Atkinson, M. AB - This paper presents findings from the e-Uptake project which aims to widen the uptake of e-Infrastructure Services for research. We focus specifically on the identification of barriers and enablers of uptake and the taxonomy developed to structure our findings. Based on these findings, we describe the development of a number of interventions such as training and outreach events, workshops and the deployment of a UK 'one-stop-shop' for support and event information as well as training material. Finally, we will describe how the project relates to other ongoing community engagement efforts in the UK and worldwide. Introduction Existing investments in e-Science and Grid computing technologies have helped to develop the capacity to build e-Infrastructures for research: distributed, networked, interoperable computing and data resources that are available to underpin a wide range of research activities in all research disciplines. In the UK, the Research Councils and the JISC are funding programmes to support the development of essential components of such infrastructures such as National Grid Service (www.ngs.ac.uk) or the UK Access Management Federation (www.ukfederation.org.uk) as well as discipline-specific efforts to build consistent and accessible instantiations of e-Infrastructures, for example the e- Infrastructure for the Social Sciences (Daw et al. 2007). These investments are complemented by an active programme of community engagement (Voss et al. 2007). As part of the community engagement strand of its e-Infrastructure programme, JISC has funded the e-Uptake project, a collaboration between the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science at the University of Manchester, the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre at King's College London and the National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh. In this paper we present the project's activities to date to widen the uptake of e-Infrastructure services by eliciting information about the barriers to and enablers of uptake, developing adequate interventions such as training and outreach events, running workshops and the deploying a UK 'one-stop-shop' for support and event information as well as training material. JF - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science CY - Manchester UR - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/programme/workshop1/?ref=/programme/thurs/1aVoss.htm ER - TY - CONF T1 - WikiSim: simulating knowledge collection and curation in structured wikis. T2 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Wikis in Porto, Portugal Y1 - 2008 A1 - De~Ferrari, Luna A1 - Stuart Aitken A1 - van Hemert, Jano A1 - Goryanin, Igor AB - The aim of this work is to model quantitatively one of the main properties of wikis: how high quality knowledge can emerge from the individual work of independent volunteers. The approach chosen is to simulate knowledge collection and curation in wikis. The basic model represents the wiki as a set of of true/false values, added and edited at each simulation round by software agents (users) following a fixed set of rules. The resulting WikiSim simulations already manage to reach distributions of edits and user contributions very close to those reported for Wikipedia. WikiSim can also span conditions not easily measurable in real-life wikis, such as the impact of various amounts of user mistakes. WikiSim could be extended to model wiki software features, such as discussion pages and watch lists, while monitoring the impact they have on user actions and consensus, and their effect on knowledge quality. The method could also be used to compare wikis with other curation scenarios based on centralised editing by experts. The future challenges for WikiSim will be to find appropriate ways to evaluate and validate the models and to keep them simple while still capturing relevant properties of wiki systems. JF - Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Wikis in Porto, Portugal PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Web Service Grids: an evolutionary approach JF - Concurrency - Practice and Experience Y1 - 2005 A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Roure, David De A1 - Dunlop, Alistair N. A1 - Fox, Geoffrey A1 - Henderson, Peter A1 - Hey, Anthony J. G. A1 - Paton, Norman W. A1 - Newhouse, Steven A1 - Parastatidis, Savas A1 - Trefethen, Anne E. A1 - Watson, Paul A1 - Webber, Jim VL - 17 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Web Service Grids: An Evolutionary Approach Y1 - 2004 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Roure, David De A1 - Alistair Dunlop A1 - Fox, Geoffrey A1 - Henderson, Peter A1 - Tony Hey A1 - Norman Paton A1 - Newhouse, Steven A1 - Parastatidis, Savas A1 - Anne Trefethen A1 - Watson, Paul A1 - Webber, Jim AB - The UK e-Science Programme is a £250M, 5 year initiative which has funded over 100 projects. These application-led projects are under-pinned by an emerging set of core middleware services that allow the coordinated, collaborative use of distributed resources. This set of middleware services runs on top of the research network and beneath the applications we call the ‘Grid’. Grid middleware is currently in transition from pre-Web Service versions to a new version based on Web Services. Unfortunately, only a very basic set of Web Services embodied in the Web Services Interoperability proposal, WS-I, are agreed by most IT companies. IBM and others have submitted proposals for Web Services for Grids - the Web Services ResourceFramework and Web Services Notification specifications - to the OASIS organisation for standardisation. This process could take up to 12 months from March 2004 and the specifications are subject to debate and potentially significant changes. Since several significant UK e-Science projects come to an end before the end of this process, the UK therefore needs to develop a strategy that will protect the UK’s investment in Grid middleware by informing the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute’s (OMII) roadmap and UK middleware repository in Southampton. This paper sets out an evolutionary roadmap that will allow us to capture generic middleware components from projects in a form that will facilitate migration or interoperability with the emerging Grid Web Services standards and with on-going OGSA developments. In this paper we therefore define a set of Web Services specifications - that we call ‘WS-I+’ to reflect the fact that this is a larger set than currently accepted by WS-I – that we believe will enable us to achieve the twin goals of capturing these components and facilitating migration to future standards. We believe that the extra Web Services specifications we have included in WS-I+ are both helpful in building e-Science Grids and likely to be widely accepted. JF - UK e-Science Technical Report Series ER -