Hi Arthur,
I can't speak for anyone else, but I was at SC last week and not at the PTO. How was the meeting? At SC there were a lot of really good opportunities to meet with folks and brainstorm ideas; I plan to send out a roundup at some point, once I've gotten my head screwed back on after the conference! Â:)
This blog post is pretty great. I think he's hit something really fundamental. A few weeks ago, David Tarboton from Hydroshare gave a colloquium at NCSA and he made the point that they hope to see adoption by the software becoming a part of the daily workflow. I think there's something really powerful there -- and from my perspective, I think that's an easier goal to reach the *smaller* the initial scope of a project, or aims... Start small, build outward, develop an ecosystem.
-Matt
On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 7:24:17 AM Arthur Smith <
apsmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Are any other people on this list attending the CENDI/NFAIS meeting
on "Data Infrastructure" at the US PTO tomorrow? Details at
http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/CENDI_NFAIS_2014/ - I know the
supercomputing meeting is going on this week also...
On a completely different topic - for those who were interested in
working on a "laboratory workbench" prototype project, Cameron
Neylon has a post today on exactly that problem:
http://cameronneylon.net/blog/data-capture-for-the-real-world/
He notes that there are a lot of good projects out there supporting
research data, but "
The bit that is lacking is often the interface onto the day to day
workings of an experimental laboratory. Something like this system
could be the glue-ware that brings those much more powerful systems
into play for the average researcher."
ÂÂÂÂ Arthur