1. Funded by: Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) Nikki Rogers (ILRT) Presentation to the JISC VRE Programme meeting 29 th November 2007

2. Funded by: Contents Background Partners & Project staff CREW Software Architecture & Software Design Key Technical Challenges Demo, Planned Releases and User Engagement

3. Funded by: Background VRE 1 VRE 2 CREW

4. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project) £££’s

5. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project) Linking data using Semantic Web technology Reusing open source software – SWED http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/ Identifiers to link ‘things’, RDF schemas for events, event outputs, people, organisations … RDF backend (Jena), Java J2EE app User interface – Search + Facet Browse

6. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project)

7. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project)

8. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project)

9. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project)

10. Funded by: Iugo (VRE1 Project)

11. Funded by: Memetic (VRE1 Project) A new concept in ‘minuting meetings’ recorded over Access Grid? A toolkit: Compendium – concept mapping software & ScreenStreamer - broadcast the contents of a computer screen to other participants. Recordable alongside compendium content. Annotations data stored using Semantic Web technology

12. Funded by: Memetic (VRE1 Project)

13. Funded by: The Whole is greater than sum of the parts? … VRE 1 VRE 2 CREW

14. Funded by: Partners & Project staff Project Manager: – Michael Daw (Manchester) Technical Manager: – Nikki Rogers (Bristol) Development Team: – Mike Jones (Bristol) – Andrew Rowley (Manchester) – Anja Le Blanc (Manchester) – Tobias Schiebeck (Manchester)

15. Funded by: Partners & Project staff Evaluation/User Liason: – Roger Slack (Bangor) – Meik Poschen (Manchester) Users/co-investigators: – Andy Hall (IHS – Manchester) – Rebecca Jones (IHS – Manchester) – Caroline Williams (Intute – Manchester) – Emma Place (Intute – Bristol) – Andy Priest (Intute – Manchester) – Martin Turner (Visualization groups – Manchester)

16. Funded by: CREW Software Record Event Edit Recording Search Events Replay Event Sync slides with speaker recording

17. Funded by: CREW Software Record Event Edit Recording Search Events Replay Event Sync slides with speaker recording Organise Event

18. Funded by: Key Technical Challenges User annotations –> security, retraction, provenance tracking Caching in the Events app Integrating tagging with formal vocabs Distributed architecture(s) / workflow (number of possible exit strategies) User-friendly replay of recordings from events User-friendly editing software

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20. National Service/ Event website RACE Project?

21. Funded by: Planned Releases RELEASE 1: end Sep 2007 RE (Research Events Application) - ability for user to replay recordings includ. slide presentations & Q&A sessions RELEASE 2: end Feb 2008 Scientific Viz users - focus on testing usability of recording/editing functionality RELEASE 3: June 2008 focus on more major events e.g. ESRC Research Methods Festival & the Events app RELEASE 4: Nov 2008 RELEASE 5: Feb 2009

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29. Links CREW Version 1 Events Application online demo: http://ralter.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ReaWebapp/ CREW development wiki: http://kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/rss-wiki/CREW CREW website: http://www.crew-vre.net/

30. Funded by: Questions?