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4.2 million to set up the Software Sustainability Institute, climate change and global interoperability - all in the OMII-UK Newsletter

From OMII-UK News. Published on Mar 09, 2010.

4.2 million pounds has been awarded by EPSRC to set up the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). In this month's newsletter, Neil Chue Hong, the Director of the SSI, describes his plan for sustaining software developed by the research community.

Download the newsletter or view the newsletter webpage.

Inside the newsletter, we hear about the e-Science Institute's recent theme on climate change from Iain Coleman, a science writer based at the University of Edinburgh. We also hear from the University of Cambridge's Bruce Beckles who suggests that e-Research could benefit from an investment in the teaching of basic computing skills.

The back page is dedicated to some of OMII-UK's recent successes: the interoperability demonstrator which uses compute resources from around the world, and BioPortal, a project that recently contacted OMII-UK developers to say thanks for the 'excellent and timely support'.

In this month's newsletter:

  • Ensuring a bright future for research software
    • A 4.2 million pound grant will set up the Software Sustainability Institute, which will co-ordinate how the UK research community will sustain important research software and make it available for future use.
  • News in Brief
    • Downloads highlight Taverna's popularity, Learn about software on YouTube, Rapid is textbook software.
  • What we need to know about climate change
    • Are climate change predictions doomed to the failure? This and other concerns led Andrew Kerr to run the eSI's theme on Communicating the e-Science of Climate Change. Iain Coleman reports on the latest developments.
  • Research needs to focus on basic computing skills
    • Bruce Beckles, from the University of Cambridge, discusses his thoughts on how e-Research could be improved by investing in more teaching of computing skills.
  • European interoperability goes global
    • OMII-UK and the NGS have taken a step towards a future of globally integrated computing.
  • BioPortal benefits from excellent support
    • ICHEC recently praised OMII-UK for its 'excellent and timely support' in providing them with the bespoke functionality they needed for their project's job-submission service.

Rapid attains over 300 downloads a month

From OMII-UK News. Published on Mar 08, 2010.

In May 2007, Jano van Hemert and his team at the University of Edinburgh started the Rapid project. In under three years, they have designed and developed software that has been used to help everyone from chemists to seismologists, and have now seen their downloads reach over 300 a month. 'For a project as small and young as us, we are exceptionally proud of the [achievement]' said van Hemert 'I am sure OMII-UK had much to do with the unstoppable growth in downloads and requests'.

Rapid is a unique way of quickly designing and delivering web portal interfaces to applications that require computational resources. It focuses on the requirements of the end-user by designing customised user interfaces for domain-specific applications that allow users to achieve particular tasks.

For more information, visit the Rapid website.

Deadline for workshop proposals for AHM 2010 is approaching fast - 28 February 2010!

From OMII-UK News. Published on Feb 25, 2010.

http://www.allhands.org.uk/home

This month's iSGTW: "OSCAR understands the language of chemistry, naturally"

From OMII-UK News. Published on Feb 18, 2010.

http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002352

CCGrid 2010: Call for Research/Product Demos - 17-20 May, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

From OMII-UK News. Published on Feb 16, 2010.

We invite research demonstrations from laboratories or research groups (academic, government, or industrial) to showcase new innovations and technologies in Cloud Computing and HPC/scientific applications at the CCGrid 2010 conference. CCGrid is a highly successful and well-recognized International conference for presenting the latest breakthroughs in Cluster, Cloud and Grid technologies.

Visit the conference website.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions - March 31st, 2010

Notification of Acceptance - April 5th, 2010

Although we are looking for demos on the emerging Cloud Computing and GPU-based computing areas, we welcome demos from all areas within the scope of CCGrid 2010. For information on the topics of interest, visit the conference website.

Web Semantics in Action: Web 3.0 in e-Science Call for Papers

By peter.halfpenny@ncess.ac.uk (Prof. Peter Halfpenny, NCeSS Hub) from NCeSS News. Published on Aug 12, 2009.

Semantic Web technologies have moved beyond the point of being promising futuristic technologies and demonstration projects, to being technologies in action in realistic contexts and conditions. Semantic Web applications are being developed for many aspects of scientific research, from experimental data management, discovery and retrieval, to analytic workflows, hypothesis development and testing, to research publishing and dissemination.

ENGAGE Funded Projects

By cbrown from News. Published on Oct 07, 2008.

Summaries of ENGAGE funded projects

e-Research opens up nineteenth-century texts

By cbrown from News. Published on Sep 23, 2008.

ENGAGE funds HiTHeR project

Community Engagement presentations at Oxford eResearch08

By cbrown from News. Published on Sep 04, 2008.

Details of Community Engagement presentations at the Oxford eResearch Conference 11-13 September 2008

Community Engagement at the All Hands Meeting 2008

By cbrown from News. Published on Sep 04, 2008.

Community Engagement presentations at the All Hands Meeting 2008 in Edinburgh.

JISC Inform article

By cbrown from News. Published on Jul 23, 2008.

JISC Inform article featuring the three community engagement projects

Community Engagement sessions at JISC Innovation Forum 2008

By cbrown from News. Published on Jul 21, 2008.

Engage, e-Uptake and eIUS sessions at the JISC Innovation Forum

ENGAGE & e-Uptake at 4th e-Social Science Conference - Manchester

By cbrown from News. Published on Jun 24, 2008.

ENGAGE & e-Uptake at 4th International Conference on e-Social Science

See the new ENGAGE flyer

By cbrown from News. Published on Mar 26, 2008.

ENGAGE Flyer now available (March 2008)

ENGAGE - improving the uptake of e-Research

By cbrown from News. Published on Feb 18, 2008.

ENGAGE press release - February 2008
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