Web: Email: info@omii.ac.uk The Future of OMII-UK e-Science: the Changing Landscape 17 April 2009 Neil Chue Hong.

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The Future of OMII-UKe-Science: the Changing Landscape

17 April 2009Neil Chue Hong

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The Future of OMII-UK

• What should OMII-UK evolve into to meet the needs of the e-Research community in 2010 and beyond?

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Changing OMII-UK Mission

• Our mission is to provide Grid software distributions of choice for application scientists and industry wishing to either establish a grid infrastructure and/or develop applications and services for a grid infrastructure

• Our mission is to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators

• Our mission is to cultivate and sustain community software important to research

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Changing the direction of the organisation

Productise software on behalf of the developers

Sustain software on

behalf of the users

“We are farmers, not hunter-gatherers”

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Changing the direction of the organisation

Facilitating mutual benefit betweenall participants

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OMII-UK Cycle for Software Sustainability

Requirementsgathering

Softwareexpertise

Marketresearch

Domainexpertise

Best practice;Process

SpecialistDevelopment

Software products;Community services

Standards;Information

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Services for eResearch software

Design /Code

Evaluation

Integration

SoftwareSupport

Documentation

and Training

SoftwareImproveme

nt

SoftwareDeployme

nt

Promotion +

Exploitation

Innovators

Providers

Users

CommunityDevelopment

Requirements

Gathering

Testing / DevInfrastructur

e

Packaging/porting

Governance

DeploymentAnalysis

SoftwareContribution

s

Information

Provision Campus GridGridSAM

OGSA-DAI/LaQuAT

Rapid

SAGA

Taverna/caBIG

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Engaging Research with e-Infrastructure

Interviews

Projects

Dissemination

AdoptionNew requirements

Widerdeployment

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Simplifying a complex system?

Standardised Interfaces

Appropriatedocumentation

BIG RED BUTTON!

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The Future of OMII-UK

• Working to be the national focal point driving the continued improvement and impact of community software for e-Research

o To build communities of users, developers and providers, with confidence in the software

o To be a leading authority on best practice in building shareable research software

o To enable and improve multi-disciplinary useo To engage pro-actively with the international

community

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Further Information

• OMII-UK Collaborations Workshop 2009o 30 April – 1st May, Edinburgho http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/958/

• OMII-UK Web Siteo http://www.omii.ac.uk/

• OMII-UK Newslettero In your pack!

• OMII-UK / ENGAGE Demoso After lunch