The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI

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The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI

Date: October 21, 2007-October 23, 2007
Location: UNC Friday Center
Homepage: https://www.mses07.net/main.aspx
Part of: Microsoft eScience WorkshopsJie Bao

Sunday, Oct 21, 2007

  • Keynote: Transforming the Sensing and Numerical Prediction of Thunderstorms through Dynamic Adaptation: People and Technologies Interacting with Weather
    Kelvin K. Droegemeier, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
    • How grid helps in modeling and forecasting thunderstorms
    • Make workflow from atomic services (of weather forecasting)
    • How numerical model helps in evaluating effect of human activities on global warming.


  • arXiv.org e-Print Web Service Application Programming Interface
    Julius Lucks, Cornell University; Simeon Warner, Cornell Information Science; Thorsten Schwander, arXiv.org; Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
    • arXiv.org] is a pre-print server, originally for physics, but now is also popular in Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
    • Mainly a technical, implementation talk
    • Web Service by HTTP GET/Atom - simple, and works (vs. SOAP).
    • Interface to OpenSearch (a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results.)
    • Checkout: Stefan Pohl. Using Access Data for Paper Recommendations on ArXiv.org. Master's Thesis , Cornell University. 2007.
    • Other interesting related sites:
      • CiteBase (physics, maths, information science, and (published only) biomedical papers)
      • OpenWetWare.org (a wiki in biology & biological engineering)
      • Relationship Graph
      • Microsoft Word (Savas Parastatidis)
  • Data Integration for Genome-wide Association Studies of Human Diseases
    Qi Sun and Lalit Ponnala, Cornell University
    • Implementation based on SQL Server + ASP.net + Excel + Internet Explorer (don't be surprised, it's a MS-supported workshop :) )
    • Highlights: integration heterogeneous data using relational database (typical). No ontology involved.
    • Highlights: Excel is the client software for data retrieval and uploading!
    • Highlights: encryption for sensitive patient information.
    • Collaborator: Ron Crystal

Monday, Oct 22, 2007

  • Blogs, Logs and Pods - A Way to a Smart Laboratory
    Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton
    • CombeChem Project - an "e-Science testbed that integrates existing structure and property data sources within a grid-based information-and (chemical) knowledge-sharing environment"
    • Electronic Notebook for Laboratory - records results always digitally, for easier future use and reuse. (Jie: is it technically easy but also behaviorally difficult? people are (generally) so lazy)
    • People needs PDAs to do this.

Remark: We see several web-based clients for generating and viewing semantic web data, esp. by wikis and blogs. I believe it is a right direction, or even, THE right direction for making semantic web vision real. Protege is for experts, for knowledge engineering, but it is, generally, not friendly for usual semantic web users. The most likely situation when people use semantic web in the real world, is using their cell phones or PDAs (the boundary between them are blurry now). This calls very simple user interface, while also flexible and scalable. Adding semantics to Wikis, Blogs, Emails, Contacts, and Calendars, may gives us the long overdue killer applications for semantic web. - Jie

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007

  • Data Management Challenges of Large-Scale, Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows
    Ewa Deelman, USC/Information Sciences Institute
    • Pegasus: Planning for Execution in Grids
      • "Pegasus bridges the scientific domain and the execution environment by automatically mapping the high-level workflow descriptions onto distributed infrastructures such as the TeraGrid, the Open Science Grid, and others."
  • myExperiment: Social Networking for Workflow-using e-Scientists
    Carole Goble, University of Manchester; David De Roure, The University of Southampton
    • Key idea: Reuse workflow, as reuse documents
    • A related talk: myExperiment, invited talk at the Web 2.0 and Grids Workshop at OGF19, January 29, 2007
    • "e-Science is about harvesting and harnessing the collective intelligence of the scientific community by making connections between decoupled content and people"
    • "myExperiment makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. myExperiment enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention."
Facts about The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCIRDF feed
Has author Jie Bao  +
Has citation DBLP:conf/esws/GrozaHMD07  +
Has end date 23 October 2007  +
Has homepage https://www.mses07.net/main.aspx  +
Has location UNC Friday Center  +
Has participant Jie Bao  +, Kelvin Droegemeier  +, Carl Lagoze  +, Jane Hunter  +, Julius Lucks  +, May Wang  +, Michael Kurtz  +, Jeremy Frey  +, Ewa Deelman  +, Carole Goble  +, and Bertram Ludaescher  +
Has start date 21 October 2007  +
Has title The 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI   +
Has year 2007  +
Part of Microsoft eScience Workshops  +, and Jie Bao Blog  +
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