EthERNet Social Network Alazar Alemayehu– EthERNet - Ethiopia (alazar.1994@gmail.com) EthERNet e-Research Hackfest – Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Scientific problem area Starting point Technology stack Outline Scientific problem area Starting point Technology stack Computational and data model Implementation strategy

Scientific problem (duplicate this slides as many time as needed) Please describe : What scientific domain is this application addressing ? What are the identified problems that this application tries to solve ? What do you see as some of the benefits of using the web for this application?

We have all this resources Scientific problem We have all this resources how do we make sure that all researchers have gotten access to these research materials? How do we guarantee that all this information is used as intended? How can we make sure that new researchers can follow the same footstep by learning from experienced one How do we make sure that every time spent on internet is worse spending Social networks are beyond liking, chatting and commenting…. We want to show that social networks are there to solve problem

We have all this resources Scientific Solution We have all this resources We could have used social media but.. Whom do you think spent searching a specific research paper on Facebook We could have used Google search engine but Google does not provide tailor-made solution to those searches Wouldn’t be better to build our professional social network under EthERNet This serves as index of resources to which those website that contain resources are listed here

This is not just a social network Scientific Solution This is not just a social network It is discussion forum in which researcher collaborate on different issues It is a forum in which universities exchange experience So other research companies can interact with this researchers through this social network through EthERNet It is network of Ethiopian/African Researchers

There could be two kind of users normal and admin : Workflow There could be two kind of users normal and admin : Admin is all about controlling the situations, giving information, indexing publications ….

There could be two kind of users normal and admin : Workflow There could be two kind of users normal and admin : User will have its own Federated Authentication and Then it is all about Participating in forum Getting experience Looking for your research files It is social media which is all about Sharing resource and experience

Data model  : Most data come from users but the media data are from the resource storage build till now (resource repository build under the sci-gaia projects) Since the network is through EtherNet Network, It would give high computing power and network, For time being through intranet they connect When the network grows it can be used a social network in which you can put your CV as researcher

Which of these models apply to you ? Computing model Which of these models apply to you ? Persistent cloud computing (commercial/private cloud) Using EtherNet’s intranet Network Mobile computing (Android/iOS apps, Messaging) Later when the application gets most users, it would be necessary to develop an android app

Implementation strategy The final product will have Forum for every issues and subject areas Personal contacting Map indicating where to go to get a required research paper Which serve as CV Front end (obviously there would be a web interface) Authentication

Implementation strategy (duplicate this slides as many time as needed) The final product will have Forum for every issues and subject areas Personal contacting indexed indicating where to go to get a required research paper Final Mileston Full social network ready to be deployed for researchers

Implementation strategy Using Glibrary for the whole web and Authentication can be done either using federated authentication method or Glibrary’s built in authentication method

Risks and unknowns (optional) What do you think will get in your way? Advertising to users would be one of the big challenge Making people to migrate from other social networks would be another challenging issue

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