AToL Distance Collaboration

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AToL Distance Collaboration

• Reed Beaman
• AToL PI Meeting, New Orleans March 2008

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The state of distance AToL collaboration

• What are we doing in the AToL community to
  collaborate, communicate in a high tech research
  environment? -- Survey results
• Tomorrow -- How others do distance collaboration
• Presentation on processes, standards used in the
  geospatial sciences - Phillip Dibner, Open
  Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute
  (OGCii)
• Breakout Group on distance collaboration - Bill
  Barnett, Indiana University

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What can we address with an AToL PI survey?

• Is AToL research Big Science?
• How do we handle what are becoming larger and
  larger data sets?
• Are we utilizing IT tools for communication and
  collaboration that help make our research
  transformative?
• Are we placing our data in repositories where
  they can be shared, re-used, re-purposed, and how
  do we do this?
• Do we utilize standards, workflows, architectures
  to support information interoperability and
  knowledge networks?
• How do we impact society and other scientific
  domains?

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Topics covered

• Collaboration methods
• Data sharing
• Communication frequency
• Data submission to digital repositories.
• Availability and use of computational facilities
• Communication, networking, and interoperability
  tools
• Submitting to GenBank
• How did projects approach distance collaboration
• Outreach and distance collaboration
• When were you funded?

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Data collection and responses

• SurveyMonkey.com - online - instant gratification
• Survey sent to all AToL PIs attending 2008
  meeting
• 73 responses
• 66 completed surveys (90)
• Most responses within a few hours of email
  requests to participate. No responses in the
  last 11 hours.
• Its not too late to participate!!

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Communication methods
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Communication frequency
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Data sharing
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Distance communication planning
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Where does digital data go?
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How do you get it there?
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Computational facilities
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Assorted tools that we use
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Outreach and distance collaboration
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What year were you funded?