[Myexperiment-discuss] RE: Roadmap and knowledge packs

[David De Roure]

Hi - yes, contact Danius Michaelides and Don Cruickshank in ECS (copied so that 
you can pick up their email addresses).  I'll be around tomorrow (Wednesday).  
Given your area of interest we can also set up a skype chat with members of the 
team in Manchester - in particular Sean Bechhofer is our expert for the packs 
enhancement and has overview of the other e-Labs projects. 

-- Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Gorissen D. [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 31 August 2010 08:38
To: David De Roure; address@hidden
Subject: RE: Roadmap and knowledge packs

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply!  Yes, I think it would be useful if I could meet somebody 
from team, who should I best contact to arrange a time to pass by?  My main 
interests concern the knowledge packs and repo integration.
 
Great that the roadmap is being updated, I will keep an eye on it.  

Cheers
Dirk 


-----Original Message-----
From: David De Roure [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 30 August 2010 19:04
To: Gorissen D.; address@hidden
Subject: RE: Roadmap and knowledge packs

Hi Dirk

Thanks for your interest and questions.  This is the right list!

Yes, coming up we have more workflow systems and enhanced Taverna T2 support, a 
new "filters" interface for workflow browsing, enhanced packs and more 
repositories integration (some based on Linked Data).  Some features are under 
test as we speak and we'd be happy to show them to you.

That much you probably already gleaned from the wiki! The dev team had a 
roadmapping session last week - we're doing a review to finalise our detailed 
plans for now through to the end of next March (the planning document is 20 
pages long!) and I'll be refreshing the plan on the wiki later this week.   

The area where workflows meet with packs is a particular focus just now as it 
is highly important for the Galaxy, Meandre and Kepler integrations which we 
announced recently.

In terms of data management we are working with EPrints, Fedora and dropbox.  
Also, myExperiment is part of a family of "e-Laboratory" projects 
(BioCatalogue, SysmoDB, methodbox ...) and there may be relevant experiences in 
these and other projects. Some of our data integration work is based on Linked 
Data and we anticipate more of this as other repositories also become 
compliant. Our enhanced pack representations are heading towards the SKOS 
standard.

BTW I'm sure others on the list may be interested in the answers to your 
questions so I'm following up publicly, but you are of course also welcome to 
come and see us as the development team is in building 32 and I note you are in 
building 25 :-)  This invitation of course applies to everyone on the list - 
we're very friendly!

Thanks - your questions and feedback are very helpful in helping us provide the 
information people need.

-- Dave  

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From: address@hidden address@hidden On Behalf Of Gorissen D. address@hidden
Sent: 30 August 2010 18:08
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Myexperiment-discuss] Roadmap and knowledge packs

Hello,

I am quite new to the myExperiement ecosystem (congrats to the nice, open, 
framework btw!) so apologies if this is the wrong mailinglist for this question 
or if this has been asked recently before (where can I search the archives 
btw?).

Some background: I am part of an aerospace research project (under Prof. Andy 
Keane) at Soton, and we need a workflow execution, management, and publishing 
system.  Associated with this we will also need a data management system to 
store all the files/results/metadata/.. associated with each workflow instance 
and the project it belongs to.  I am currently investigating a 
Taverna/myExperiement based solution.  An alternative would be to go the 
Microsoft route with Trident/Sharepoint.   I have two questions:



1) I spent some time browsing the myExperiment wiki and noted that the roadmap 
pages were outdated:

http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Roadmap
http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/EnhancementWorkplan

Is anybody aware of what the current status/plans are?  I ask because it would 
be good to have an idea where the project is going, what funding is available, 
etc. if we are to build our own toolchain around it.  I have gone through some 
slides I found of David De Roure's, and the News page contains some hints 
(e.g., phase two JISC funding approved) but any other firsthand info, tips, 
comments, etc. would be much appreciated.

2) It is still not clear in my mind how to best deal with the data management 
case (roll our own, build around something like DSpace, ...?).  From the slides 
I saw, it seems like myExperiement is solving (has solved?) this with the 
knowledge pack abstraction, slide 54 in (*).  Together with a proper versioning 
mechanism, this would be exactly what I am looking for.  Again, some 
elaboration on the status/roadmap here would be very useful.

Many thanks,

Best regards,

Dirk

(*) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1202407/Presentations/myExpOR10.pptx


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