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  • IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

    IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

    In the afternoon, after everyone had worked through the 3 group tasks in the practical session: ‘Workflow Development in Digitisation’, we returned to hear from the Taverna Manager – Shoaib Sufi. Shoib gave an interesting talk about where he sees Taverna going in the next few years and the further development of Taverna 3, including […]

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  • IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

    IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

    Clemens Neudecker leads a session on using Taverna Server as a portal, using IMPACT workflows to demonstrate the functionality. This was followed by Rob Haines from myGrid who gave more examples of Taverna Server Interfaces.

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  • The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

    The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

    This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work on a different set of tasks based on a Case Study: Case Study: A collection holder wants to reduce storage costs for his collections that are currently available as TIFF master files. She/he heard that […]

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  • IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

    IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

    Full details of this workshop are available through the workshop wiki at: http://impact-mygrid-taverna-hackathon.wikispaces.com/Background+Materials The day started with an introduction to IMPACT from Clemens Neudecker: and then an introduction to Taverna from Katy Wolstencroft:

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  • Keeping the REDm-MED Project on Track

    Keeping the REDm-MED Project on Track

    Our experiences observing the varied success of introducing knowledge and information management tools and methods in industry brought us to the following conclusion if success is to be hoped for: ‘Interventions should result in a zero net resource requirement increase.’ It does not mean we think that no money or effort should be spent on performing, for [...]

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  • Open Research Reports

    Open Research Reports

    I’ve just heard about the Open Research Reports initiative, an idea to make disease research as openly accessible as possible to the people that really need it. Open Research Reports aim to pull together the corpus of open access literature on a ...

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  • EU Riding the wave report

    EU Riding the wave report

    The last in my trio of belated blog posts is based on the report: Riding the wave – How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, published in  October 2010. ...

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  • Report on data sharing

    Report on data sharing

    The second of the three posts that I’m releasing on the principle of ‘better late than never’ was a pointer to Christine Borgman’s  report: Research Data: Who Will Share What, with Whom, When, and Why?“ (2010), which w...

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  • Motivating the release of government data

    Motivating the release of government data

    In the process of tying up loose ends for the SageCite project, I’ve unearthed three draft blog postings, all of which were related to other blog posts or publications which comment on data sharing, re-use or citation – three key themes for...

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  • IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference.  Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts. Monday 24 October 2011 […]

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