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OMII-UKDelivering Software and Social

Platforms for Successful Research

RCUK Review of e-Science,8 December 2009, Oxford

Neil Chue Hong

“cultivating and sustaining community software important to research”

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AppliedResearchDomain

Casual User(Novice

or Infrequent)

Intensive User(Expert

or Focused)

Technologists

Assemblersof domain

Components/Services/Tools

Buildersof domain

Components/Services/Tools

Assemblers of generic

Components/Services/Tools

Builders of generic

Components/Services/Tools

Providers

VO Managers

ResourceOwners

Helpdesk &Training

SystemAdministrators

Applied e-Researchers Technology Specialists e-Infrastructure Providers

Users

OMII-UK Cultivating software for all kinds of users

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OMII-UK Cultivating software for all kinds of users

Taverna: workflows for scientists

OGSA-DAI: data integrationenabling new research

PAG: Access Gridvideoconferencingfor anyone

AHE: easy to scale grids for computational simulation

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Software Services for eResearch

Design /Code

Evaluation

Integration

SoftwareSupport

Documentation

and TrainingSoftware

Improvement

SoftwareDeployme

ntPromotion

+ Exploitatio

nSoftware

Innovators

InfrastrProvider

s

Research

Users

CommunityDevelopment

Requirements

Gathering

Testing / DevInfrastructur

e

Packaging/porting

Governance

DeploymentAnalysis

SoftwareContribution

s

Information

Provision

Software Maturation Cycle

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Engaging Research with e-Infrastructure

Interviews

Projects

Dissemination

AdoptionNew requirements

Widerdeployment

30 month programme14 projects3-6 months duration£650,000 funding

17 papers10 posters50 presentations£1.36m further funding