Introduction
Notes
MoSeS contribution
- For details please see:
- Original abstract emailed to Mark Baker 2009-02-13
- MoSeS finds a way to a promised land
- In March 2005, a SIM-UK consortium met at Ordnance Survey to consider developing a means to simulate, forecast and plan for the effects of geographical processes and events at the UK national scale (http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/research/organisations/SIM-UK/). The people were an eclectic mix of experts in Geography, Grid Computing and e-Science. At the meeting I appreciated how inferior the rudimentary tools and way I was working was in comparison to the collaborative and communication and information technology enhanced way we could work.
- I was rarely connected to the internet when out of my office in anything other than read only fashion. Blog and wiki technology was new to me. Basically I had pen, paper, some printed documentation and my nog to contribute. One of the masters of the new ways of working was busy doing so much more...
- Next part of the story really involves my starting to work with the National Centre for e-Social Science on MoSeS focussed on modelling and simulation aspects of e-Social Science. I embarked on a training program to learn and network and develop best practice. We held an Agenda Setting Workshop on GIS and Grid Computing which was written into the project plan of MoSeS. This helped us identify some of the engaged and interested and we considered how to go about setting an agenda. There was a collision of terminology and standards to comprehend. New language and standards had to be learned and a mixing of organisations and catalysis was thought to be needed.
- I understood that my skills and experience was woefully inadequate and I focussed on reading and learning. In 2006 my new years resolution was to start to blog and detail what I was reading. By March, a whole year after my introduction to what has become known as e-Research I was detailing more about what I was doing. A practice of blogging and distilling this information in an enrichment like fusion like way began. Eventually I got a laptop and these activities became more real time.
- This presentation is about collision and collaboration. There are more pros than cons to the new way a bit like the journey of Ulysses. The world is very different now and most people entering into e-Research have different skills to what I had in the dim and distant past. However, I will try to relate this to who I think is in the room. I hope this fits with the rest of the event which I eagerly await.
Preparation
- Registered
- Feedback on draft of a poster for the Web 2.0 theme at eSI that will be shown at the UK JISC conference in March
- Good to be asked for this via the Research3.org Facebook Group :-)
- My feedback:
- It's fine although to be critical:
- There is a missing "the" I think in the bottom section.
- Although the logos make it look colourful and eyecatching, I think they are a distraction. It would be better to have something that captures attention more from a glance. I'm thinking of a cloud or web like explosion type graphic containing the words central to the event right at the heart of the poster.
- For me this event is about Web 2.0, e-Research and Collaboration. Many Web 2.0/e-Research tools facilitate/encourage collaboration and are aids for primary data collection, interactive analysis and indeed are open to feedback for their own development. Feedback and openness are also sort of key to unlocking some of this potential with public participation in governance, so somehow a graphic designer might think of a way to include these and other stakeholder groups in a more outer layer around the concepts in the explosive, cloud like onion.
- It would be good to have the text on the poster, with some details, but this can be small and not readable from a distance. Those who are interested from the graphic will be drawn close enough to read it.
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