1. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) Michael Daw Head of Research Computing Services Research Methods Festival 3 July 2008

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3. 3 Project Team  Project Manager: –Martin Turner (Manchester)  Technical Manager: –Nikki Rogers (Bristol)  Development Team: –Andrew Rowley (Manchester) –Anja Le Blanc (Manchester) –Tobias Schiebeck (Manchester) –Mike Jones (Bristol)  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) –Michael Daw (Manchester)

4. 4 Context  JISC Virtual Research Environment Programme –CREW –myExperiment – Manchester & Soton –Documents & manuscripts – Oxford –VRE for Archaeology (VERA) – Reading  “Support the research process”  CREW user groups: –Intute –Institute of Health Sciences –Scientific Visualization Groups: UK Professional Chapter of SIGGRAPH Eurographics UK Chapter

5. 5 User Events  Workshop: making good applications to the research for patient benefit programme - September 2007, Venue: Manchester (Institute of Health Sciences)  Monthly ACM SIGGRAPH Manchester Professional Chapter seminars - October 2007 onwards (Scientific Visualization Groups)  UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association - TP.CG (Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics) Annual Conference - June 2008 (Scientific Visualization Groups)  ESRC Research Methods Festival - Mon 30 June - Thurs 3 July 2008, Venue: Oxford  Major Intute training event - Dec 2008 (Intute)

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8. 8 Record Event Edit Recording Search Events Replay Event Organise Event What CREW Does

9. 9 Recording Events CREW Recording Server Remote Participants CREW Local Recorder

10. 10 Annotated Recordings

11. 11 Editing Recordings

12. 12 Searching for Content

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19. 19 Outstanding Issues  How to expose the contents of research collaborations – search mechanisms (Google?!)  Accommodating differing user requirements, e.g. concerning security (to portal or not to portal)  Prioritising user requirements  Development challenges: –Converting audio/video to web-accessible –Editing to single stream –Consistent ontology between old projects Iugo & Memetic  Social, legal & ethical issues  Institutional embedding

20. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Research Computing Services Michael Daw michael.daw@manchester.ac.uk http://www.manchester.ac.uk/researchcomputing/ aboutus/people/daw