1. EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks NA3 Resources Robin McConnell

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Digital Library http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk/

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 EGEE Library Open to everyone for search, retrieval, linking http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk Its impact depends on whether: –NA3 members add material –NA3 + Others add comments on that material Also accessible via web services - by negotiation Based on Fedora open source repository and international standards

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Initiatives – EGEE Library TRAINING MATERIAL EGEE documentation EGEE colleagues Trainers’ experience Re-use & modification EGEE Digital Library

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 EGEE Digital Library statistics 73 articles 15 courses 359 events 54 modules 5271 presentations 89 tutorials 103 videos 29 ETF Exemplars The Digital Library now contains over 5900 learning resources derived from EGEE events

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Digital Library - New features Redesign of “front end” Improved search & filter Branding Addition of usage statistics (Google Analytics) Allows monitoring: Usage level Location of users Types of pages accessed

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Digital Library – ongoing Repository hosting NA2 images uploaded Material on site security loaded Issue - Cataloguing of material time consuming Much material uploaded to Indico Manually categorised/catalogued

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Digital Library Success of Digital Library requires YOU to:- –1 - Upload presentations (other material) – “Create”

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Digital Library –2 - Publicise!! –Follow-on surveys show-  33% awareness  92% found useful

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 GILDA – Training Infrastructure

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 t-Infrastructure GILDA is an effective t-Infrastructure for EGEE and other European projects, providing resources and knowledge for training events Besides training events, GILDA is available around the clock for grid novices, with dedicated facilities The GILDA t-Infrastructure is currently supported by 12 sites, mostly managed on a best-effort basis Major efforts since EGEE’06 have been on improving the quality level of services offered, by installing monitoring tools Efforts have been made also on documentation and facilities offered to grid beginners

12. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Additional features GILDA is also available for applications porting using dedicated facilities Virtual/Plug’n’Play User Interfaces: preconfigured UIs installable on the majority of machines, freeing users from the requirement of an account on a “real” UI Support System : http://gilda-support.ct.infn.it/http://gilda-support.ct.infn.it/ GILDA News: https://gilda.ct.infn.it/news.htmlhttps://gilda.ct.infn.it/news.html Improved integration between GILDA and the P-GRADE grid portal from SZTAKI

13. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Scientific domains supported

14. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 ETF and UIG Editorial Task Force (ETF): intra-NA3 group, peer- reviewing and repurposing existing training materials (mainly presentations and tutorials) for online delivery. User Information Group (UIG): cross-activity group, performed an editorial and commissioning function in order to ensure provision of essential user information, certified as up to date. Providing a “one stop shop” for documentation on commonly-used processes in EGEE. –Completed in EGEEII

15. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Editorial Task Force 1 st point of reference for course material Access through Digital Library

16. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Editorial Task Force Phase 1 (completed September 2006) –Set up ETF wiki and web-pages, commenting initially on induction-level courses Phase 2 (completed January 2007) –Established exemplars for Induction, Sys Admin, Installation, Training Trainers (29 exemplars now complete) –Started on Application Developer courses Phase 3 (on-going) –All trainers to submit updated modules to improve exemplars and increase App. Dev. material

17. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 UIG pages http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/uig

18. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 UIG pages

19. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Links Digital Library - http://egee.lib.ed.ac.ukhttp://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk Gilda - https://gilda.ct.infn.it/https://gilda.ct.infn.it/ –Book Gilda Tutorial - https://gilda.ct.infn.it/request_tutorial/index.php https://gilda.ct.infn.it/request_tutorial/index.php –Wiki - https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/WebHomehttps://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/WebHome ETF - http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/NA3ETF/http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/NA3ETF/ –And via library User Information Group - http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/uig/ http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/uig/