eresearch pamphlet book

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e-research pamphlet / book
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Overview

• Facilitator David Fergusson
• Scribe Gillian Sinclair
• Dave F, Gillian, Simon H, Eduardo, Gabor,
  Matthew,
• E-research book / pamphlet, online glossary, OGF
  working group
• Break out group from the session Continuation of
  Communication problems between computer
  scientists and scientist who use computers

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Discussed eResearch book

• Dave F produced the outline of the book Research
  in a Connected World.
• Appox. 110 pages with each section written by
  diff contributors
• Hopefully available by June
• Available as print to order copy on the web.
  Also available as a pdf on the web
• Suitable for non-computer scientists undergrad
  / postgrad level
• Can be sliced and diced as an introductory text

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Discussed (cont.)

• People were happy with the coverage of the book
• Glossary of terms such as NGS, OMII-UK, NeSC,
  e-SI proposed online and in the book
• Low level working group suggested including NGS,
  OMII-UK and NeSC etc to ensure better
  collaboration regards online glossary, Wikipedia
  etc.
• Two levels of definitions in the glossary /
  knowledge base one for computer scientists and
  one for users / potential users
• Possible potential for an OGF working group on
  user community

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Discussion (cont.)

• OGF working group identify the people to take
  this forward (users, NGS, OMII-UK, NeSC)
• Find a mechanism of support for users to attend
  OGF meetings
• For users to contribute as moderators
• Plan a workshop to identify which resource to use
  for the knowledge management (e.g. MyExperiment,
  Facebook, Gridipedia, Digital Library)
• But first of all decide what we want the tool to
  do before we choose the tool
• Question driven for users e.g. how can I make my
  databases available?

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Conclusions

• Still need to address ability to make the whole
  area visible to the broad range of users
• Need to hook into the Learned Societies such as
  Royal Society of Chemistry through case studies,
  book reviews but all written by users

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Future work

• Write book
• Publicise book
• Set up OGF working group
• Identify suitable users for the OGF working group
• Identify glossary tool
• Collate / create glossary then publicise