Combining the strengths of UMIST andThe Victoria University of Manchester

Collaborative Research Events Collaborative Research Events

on the Web (CREW)on the Web (CREW)Michael Daw

Head of Research Computing Services

Research Methods Festival3 July 2008

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Partners

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Project Team

Project Manager:

– Martin Turner (Manchester)

Technical Manager:

– Nikki Rogers (Bristol)

Development Team:

– Andrew Rowley (Manchester)

– Anja Le Blanc (Manchester)

– Tobias Schiebeck (Manchester)

– Mike Jones (Bristol)

Evaluation/User Liason:

– Roger Slack (Bangor)

– Meik Poschen (Manchester)

Users/co-investigators:

– Andy Hall (IHS – Manchester)

– Rebecca Jones (IHS – Manchester)

– Caroline Williams (Intute – Manchester)

– Emma Place (Intute – Bristol)

– Andy Priest (Intute – Manchester)

– Martin Turner (Visualization groups – Manchester)

– Michael Daw (Manchester)

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Context

JISC Virtual Research Environment Programme– CREW

– myExperiment – Manchester & Soton

– Documents & manuscripts – Oxford

– VRE for Archaeology (VERA) – Reading

“Support the research process”

CREW user groups:– Intute

– Institute of Health Sciences

– Scientific Visualization Groups:

• UK Professional Chapter of SIGGRAPH

• Eurographics UK Chapter

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User Events

Workshop: making good applications to the research for patient benefit programme - September 2007, Venue: Manchester (Institute of Health Sciences)

Monthly ACM SIGGRAPH Manchester Professional Chapter seminars - October 2007 onwards (Scientific Visualization Groups)

UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association - TP.CG (Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics) Annual Conference - June 2008 (Scientific Visualization Groups)

ESRC Research Methods Festival - Mon 30 June - Thurs 3 July 2008, Venue: Oxford

Major Intute training event - Dec 2008 (Intute)

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Record Event

Edit Recording

Search Events

Replay Event

Organise Event

What CREW Does

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Recording Events

CREW Recording ServerRemote

Participants

CREW Local Recorder

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Annotated Recordings

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Editing Recordings

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Searching for Content

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Outstanding Issues

How to expose the contents of research collaborations – search mechanisms (Google?!)

Accommodating differing user requirements, e.g. concerning security (to portal or not to portal)

Prioritising user requirements

Development challenges:– Converting audio/video to web-accessible

– Editing to single stream

– Consistent ontology between old projects Iugo & Memetic

Social, legal & ethical issues

Institutional embedding

Combining the strengths of UMIST andThe Victoria University of Manchester

Research Computing Research Computing ServicesServices

Michael Daw

michael.daw@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/researchcomputing/aboutus/people/daw