Grid Education: Past (EGEE)

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Grid Education Past (EGEE) future (ICEAGE)
David Fergusson, Deputy Director Training
Outreach Education
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TOE projects

• EGEE, EGEE II (EGEE III proposal)
• European Grid Institute Design Study Proposal
• UK National Grid Service - NGS 2 recently awarded
• OMII-Europe (OMII-Europe II proposal)
• NextGrid
• ICEAGE (EGEE II proposal)
• University of Edinburgh, eLearning
• JISC eLearning
• JISC Paths to Adoption - recently awarded
• Scottish Regional Grid Proposal

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TOE services

• Based around digital library to curate material
• Different project views EGEE, ICEAGE, OMII-EU,
  NGS
• RSS feeds
• Multimedia (video/audio/presentations)
• Community editable metadata
• eLearning services
• Online assessment
• ePortfolios
• T-Infrastructure integration

http//egee.lib.ed.ac.uk/ http//baillie.lib.ed.ac
.uk8080/
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Teaching Researchers about digital data curation

• Some disciplines understand metadata - many do
  not
• Biology vs high energy physics
• Some disciplines understand the value of
  structured data - many do not
• Just use Google why anything else?
• libraries dont hold data !
• More broadly, there is often no awareness of the
  information management issues of federated
  distributed data.
• Often no awareness of legal/ethical issues
  relating to data - or have not yet managed to
  have structured response.

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Teaching data curators about e-Infrastructure

• Not interested in underlying technology
• (and shouldnt need to be)
• Federated data management solutions - not mature
  yet
• Collision of new IT architectures and traditional
  services
• Speed of change
• Need to understand the integrated effect of many
  new technologies
• E.g. effects of both distributed and ubiquitous
  computing
• - iPods and Data Floods.

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Training requirements

• Best to take training to the audience -
  ubiquitous
• Persistency of courses - anytime
• Account for different background skills
• Rapid response to rising training demands
• Experts and trainers under heavy demand
• Core training team already supporting events all
  over Europe and need to train more people within
  the current constraints

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Digital library core services
Activity Authoring Course Validation Learning flow Marking Sequencing
Assessment Curriculum Personal development Reporting Tracking
Course management Learner management Quality assurance Resource list
AV Conferencing Calendaring Annotation/review Archiving Authentication
Authorisation Federated search Chat Content adaptation Content Management
Email Identifier Filing Format conversion Forum
Harvesting Personalisation Resolver Messaging Metadata management
Packaging Alert/Notification Mapping Scheduling Search/browse
Tracking Service registry User management Whiteboard

• Content management - wiki approach
• deposit/download objects, versioning, metadata
  management
• Resource Discovery searching browsing
• Content sensitive linking (object resolver)

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Services implemented in EGEE and ICEAGE
Activity Authoring Course Validation Learning flow Marking Sequencing
Assessment Curriculum Personal development Reporting Tracking
Course management Learner management Quality assurance Resource list
AV Conferencing Calendaring Annotation/review Archiving Authentication
Authorisation Federated search Chat Content adaptation Content Management
Email Identifier Filing Format conversion Forum
Harvesting Personalisation Resolver Messaging Metadata management
Packaging Alert/Notification Mapping Scheduling Search/browse
Tracking Service registry User management Whiteboard
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Infrastructure implementation

• Develop open source repository - Fedora
• Storing both metadata and data as managed assets
• Service-oriented, SOAP-based APIs for
• Searching and accessing digital objects
  (API-Access)
• Content management (API-Management)
• Development includes
• API developments to return total hits and ranged
  results selection
• Standardisation of resource access based on the
  de facto SRW/U and OpenURL protocols (work in
  progress)

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Digital Library - resource discovery

• Resource discovery services building on Fedora
  API
• Simple and advanced search
• Browse resource (based on type)
• Results navigation
• Extension to the Fedora API to enable filtering
  of resources based on distinct type and years
  within a results set
• Searching external repositories

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Content metadata management

• Content management in federated contexts
• Project partners contributing training materials
• Enhancing, localising, versioning and exporting
• Building on the Fedora service API (-M)
• Creating new and updating metadata/content
• Wiki services for digital library
• Metadata Wiki based on W3C XForms (rich user
  interface)
• Versioning and history
• Interoperability
• Exporting objects in e-learning and digital
  library standards
• Metadata enrichment - reusing existing metadata

WiKi