Slides for a keynote presentation to the EGI Technical Forum, 15th September 2010, Amsterdam on the construction challenges facing the LifeWatch research infrastructure.
Marine Knowledge Meeting, 11-12 Oct 2012, Brussels: All About iMarine iMarine283644
iMarine is empowering users in the marine community and beyond by providing a highly efficient e-Infrastructure to accelerate data discovery, exchange, and analysis, tools and platforms that facilitates scientific discovery. Funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, a number of iMarine services are already available through the iMarine Gateway supplying cross disciplinary data supporting experts in the field.
International workshop on semantic sensor web 2011ITACA-TSB
Cognitive Networks working on large scale are object of an increasing interest by both the scientific and the commercial point of view in the context of several environments and domains. The natural convergence point for these heterogeneous disciplines is the need of a strong advanced technologic support that enables the generation of distributed observations on large scale as well as the intelligent process of obtained information. An approach based on the Semantic Sensor Web could be the key issue for enabling semantic ecosystems among heterogeneous Cognitive Networks.
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Introduction to research infrastructures for biodiversity and ecosystems research, and their global importance to support modern research. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are a unifying use case for interoperability. We are all collectively responsible for research infrastructure.
Marine Knowledge Meeting, 11-12 Oct 2012, Brussels: All About iMarine iMarine283644
iMarine is empowering users in the marine community and beyond by providing a highly efficient e-Infrastructure to accelerate data discovery, exchange, and analysis, tools and platforms that facilitates scientific discovery. Funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, a number of iMarine services are already available through the iMarine Gateway supplying cross disciplinary data supporting experts in the field.
International workshop on semantic sensor web 2011ITACA-TSB
Cognitive Networks working on large scale are object of an increasing interest by both the scientific and the commercial point of view in the context of several environments and domains. The natural convergence point for these heterogeneous disciplines is the need of a strong advanced technologic support that enables the generation of distributed observations on large scale as well as the intelligent process of obtained information. An approach based on the Semantic Sensor Web could be the key issue for enabling semantic ecosystems among heterogeneous Cognitive Networks.
Mapping Research Infrastructures with the ENVRI Reference ModelAlex Hardisty
Describes work done by the EC FP7 ENVRI project (http://www.envri.eu/) on understanding the common requirements of ESFRI environmental research infrastructures, and developing a "reference model" to support a common language of communication and understanding between these vastly different communities of environmental scientists
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SLE 2012 Keynote: Cognitive and Social Challenges of Ontology Use in the Biom...Margaret-Anne Storey
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Personal views on what Research Infrastructures really need for data - a more comprehensive version of the 5 minute presentation I have at XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011 in Edinburgh
Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
Perspectives on Collaborative Research Environments offered by D4ScienceFAO
Slides presented at the "4th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices (GE-BICH-IV)" which took place on 27-30 January 2009 in Oostende, Belgium
More information at: http://d4science.eu/node/173
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Ontology Evaluation Methods and Metrics - This is work I did while I was at The MITRE Corporation. I came up with a framework to support ontology evaluation for reuse that could also be used for ontology construction. I was the sole author of the approach, which was intended to begin a research program and a community of practice around it. It's been on hold and would like that to change. I'm now at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, if interested contact me there.
Emilie Robert Observatory of free healthcare in Mali 2012Emilie Robert
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SLE 2012 Keynote: Cognitive and Social Challenges of Ontology Use in the Biom...Margaret-Anne Storey
ABSTRACT: Ontologies can provide a conceptualization of a domain leading to a common vocabulary for communities of researchers and important standards to facilitate computation, software interoperability and data reuse. Most successful ontologies, especially those that have been developed by diverse communities over long periods of time, are typically large and complex. To address this complexity, ontology authoring and browsing tools must provide cognitive support to improve comprehension of the many concepts and relationships in ontologies. Also, ontology tools must support collaboration as the heart of ontology design and use is centered on community consensus.
In this talk, I will describe how standardized ontologies are developed and used in the biomedical and clinical domains to aid in scientific and medical discoveries. Specifically, I will present how the US National Center for Biomedical Ontology has designed the BioPortal ontology library (and associated technologies) to promote the use of standardized ontologies and tools. I will review how BioPortal and other ontology tools use established and novel visualization and collaboration approaches to improve ontology authoring and data curation activities. I will also discuss an ambitious project by the World Health Organization that leverages the use of social media to broaden participation in the development of the next version of the International Classification of Diseases. To conclude, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise from using ontologies to bridge communities that manage and curate important information resources.
Personal views on what Research Infrastructures really need for data - a more comprehensive version of the 5 minute presentation I have at XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011 in Edinburgh
Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
Perspectives on Collaborative Research Environments offered by D4ScienceFAO
Slides presented at the "4th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices (GE-BICH-IV)" which took place on 27-30 January 2009 in Oostende, Belgium
More information at: http://d4science.eu/node/173
BioVeL (Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory) is an e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources.
Ontology Evaluation Methods and Metrics - This is work I did while I was at The MITRE Corporation. I came up with a framework to support ontology evaluation for reuse that could also be used for ontology construction. I was the sole author of the approach, which was intended to begin a research program and a community of practice around it. It's been on hold and would like that to change. I'm now at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, if interested contact me there.
Emilie Robert Observatory of free healthcare in Mali 2012Emilie Robert
This presentation was given at the 2nd global symposium on health systems research, in a panel on knowledge translation strategies in West Africa to promote access to healthcare. This panel which I organized was chaired by Valéry Ridde. The symposium took place in Beijing (China) in November 2012.
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Describes what we set out to do, what we achieved, and some of the lessons learnt during the BioVeL project. This presentation was given at the BioVeL final event "BioVeL In Practice and In Future", Paris, 13th November 2014
Data accessibility and the role of informatics in predicting the biosphereAlex Hardisty
The variety, distinctiveness and complexity of life – biodiversity in other words and by implication the ecosystems in which it is situated – is our life support system. It is absolutely essential and more important than almost everything else but it is typically taken for granted. Today’s big societal challenges – food and water security, coping with environmental change and aspects of human health – are beyond the abilities of any one individual or research group to solve. Solving them depends not only on collaboration to deliver the appropriate scientific evidence but increasingly on vast amounts of data from multiple sources (environmental, taxonomic, genomic and ecological) gathered by manual observation and automated sensors, digitisation, remote sensing, and genetic sequencing. In April 2012 we called the biodiversity and ecosystems research communities to arms to formulate a consensus view on establishing an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the ever-increasing volumes of biological data. We published the whitepaper: “A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities” that has since been viewed more than 24,000 times. We envisage a shared and maintained multi-purpose network of computationally-based processing services sitting on top of an open data domain. By open data domain we mean data that is accessible i.e., published, registered and linked. BioVeL, pro-iBiosphere, ViBRANT and other FP7 funded projects have all explored aspects of this vision.
Presentation to meeting, Heraklion, 4th June 2014 on constructing a marine virtual laboratory from the bottom up in the context of LifeWatch. Covers:
- Constructing LifeWatch – reminders of what we are doing
- Sourcing the right ingredients - The “Service Network” idea
- Steps towards building Virtual Laboratories.
Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013 - Introduction and ScopeAlex Hardisty
Outlines the scope and expected outcomes of the conference event "Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013" (BIH2013) that took place in Rome, 3-6th September 2013
Presentation about the recommendations coming from our review of the challenges and priorities facing biodiversity informatics over the coming decade. Linked to this paper published in BMC Ecology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-13-16
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
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Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
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- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
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Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
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for biodiversity research
Alex Hardisty
LifeWatch Technical Construction Team
and
Director of Informatics Projects
School of Computer Science & Informatics
7. What is LifeWatch?
• An e-Science infrastructure
– Exploration of patterns of biodiversity and
processes of biodiversity across time and
space
– What causes species diversity?
• A European Research Infrastructure
– Distributed observatories / sensors
– Databases, processing and analytical tools
– Computational capability and capacity
– Collaborative environments
– Support, training, partnering, fellowship
• Open access, single portal
8. Intergovernmental Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
“Representatives of 86 governments recommend that
UNGA 65 should be invited to … take appropriate
action to establish the platform [IPBES]”
Supported by:
Based on a presentation given by Ibrahim Thiaw, UN Environment Programme
9. Film: Introduction & 2 case studies
• No.1 European research infrastructure for
biodiversity
– Represents a new methodological approach to
understanding biodiversity as a whole interacting
system
– Integrating across scales: Genomic; organism;
habitat; ecosystem; landscape
• Bird strike monitoring
– Understanding the patterns & behaviours of bird
movements can help improve aviation safety
• Urban sprawl
– Achieving balance between development of urban
areas and conservation of biodiversity
10. Mission
The mission of LifeWatch is to construct
and operate a distributed infrastructure for
biodiversity and ecosystem science based
upon Europe-wide strategies implemented
at the local level: individuals, research
groups, institutions, countries.
In cooperation with National LifeWatch Initiatives, LifeWatch provides:
• Organisation;
• Technical direction & governance;
• Core ICT infrastructure;
• Management of the LifeWatch “Product”; and,
• Community support.
11. Aspiration: An integrating “Infrastructure”
for biodiversity research
• Full range of functions across multiple scales
– Data gathering and generation; data management,
integration and modelling; diverse applications
– Genomic; organism; habitat; ecosystem; landscape
• Benefits to the research community
1. Discovery and access to a wide variety of data –
species, genetic, ecological and abiotic – to support
biodiversity research
2. Manage / merge data from multiple sources
3. Taxonomic support e.g., authoritative species lists and
taxonomic classifications, digitisation-on-demand
4. Spatial mapping of data; INSPIRE compliance
5. Sharing of workflows, collaboration and community-
building
12. A community driven e-Infrastructure
• Centres, distributed across
countries offer services to users
– ICT oriented (computer
centres, data centres),
human oriented (service
centres), or a combination
• User projects create their own
e-laboratories or e-services
• They share their data and
algorithms with others, while
controlling access
13. Status: The LifeWatch timeline
1995 2005 2008 2011 2016
Operation &
Earlier projects Conception Preparations Construction
Evolution
€5m ~ €375m
2008 2009 2010
Political initial final
commitment decision decision
Construction logistics
‘blue print’ construction
14. Status: The Preparatory Project
Contracted participants
Countries 8 countries
negotiating
the start-up
Scientific networks
27 executive partners
Other partners
Data networks
International infrastructures
User sectors
Industry
16. Jigsaw of challenges
• All the usual:
– Technical
– Fitness-for-purpose and ease of use
– Integration of multiple resources
– Open and based on industry standards
– Existing technological solutions as far as
possible
– Operational at the earliest opportunity
– Staged; not everything available on ‘day 1’
• HETEROGENEITY, GAP, SCALE, PACE, FIT
17. 5 challenges (and 5+ solutions)
• HETEROGENEITY of the community’s
requirements, its data resources and tools
18. From Peterson et al (2010), Syst Biodivers 8(2), 159-168
From Guralnick and Hill (2010), http://www.slideshare.net/robgur/ievobio-keynote-talk-2010
Challenge of HETEROGENEITY: Interconnected
nature of biodiversity ideas, outputs, repositories
20. Solution for HETEROGENEITY: Semantic
interoperability through knowledge management
Addison's disease Clinical
Clinical
(id:363732003) repositories
repositories
Genetic
Genetic
knowledge bases
knowledge bases
Other
Other SNOMED CT
subdomains
subdomains OMIM
…
MeSH Biomedical
Biomedical
UMLS literature
literature
NCBI C0001403
Taxonomy Addison Disease (id:D000224)
Model GO
Model
organisms FMA
organisms
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Genome
Genome
from: Olivier Bodenreider,
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Anatomy
Anatomy annotations
annotations
Comunications, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
21. Semantic Types Anatomical
Structure
Fully Formed
Anatomical Embryonic
Structure Structure
Disease or
Syndrome
Body Part, Organ or
Organ Component Pharmacologic Population Semantic
Substance Group Network
Metathesaurus
Medias- Saccular
5 tinum Viscus
Angina
49 Pectoris
Esophagus
16
Cardiotonic
Heart
237 Agents
Left Phrenic
Nerve
Tissue
Heart Fetal 38 Donors
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
13 Valves 22 Heart from: Olivier Bodenreider,
Concepts Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
Comunications, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
22. 5 challenges (and 5+ solutions)
• HETEROGENEITY of the community’s
requirements, its data resources and tools
• GAP between current practice and future
vision
23. GAP: Between current practice and future vision
“collaborative, distributed research
methods that exploit advanced
computational thinking”
Malcolm Atkinson, 2007
“When we begin the study of any
science, we are in the situation, …
We ought to form no idea but what is a
necessary consequence, and
immediate effect, of an experiment or
observation …
We should proceed from the known
facts to the unknown”
Antoine Lavoisier, 1789
24. The biodiversity system cannot Experimentation on a few
be described by the simple sum parameters is not enough.
of its components and their There are limits to scaling
relations results in order to
understand system
properties.
Compare with:
systems biology,
human physiome
Analysis of enormous biodiversity datasets,
spanning scale from genetic to species to
ecosystem to landscape. Find patterns and
learn processes. Systems thinking
Source: W.Los, modified by A.Hardisty
25. GAP solution: Workflow paradigm
Workflow Workflow Workflow
used in used in
Show case workflows
BioDivCapability BioDivCapability BioDivCapability BioDivCapability ..… BioDivCapability
1 Biodiversity Richness Analysis And Conservation Evaluation
2 Biological Valuation Map
delivers 3 Automated Retrieval delivers
and Analysis of GBIF records
4 Past behaviour and Future Scenarios
5 Bioclimatic Modelling and Global Climate Change
Workflow Workflow
6 Phylogenetic Analysis and Biogeography ..… Workflow
7 Ecological Niche Modelling
8 Urban Development and Biodiversity Loss
used in 9 Renewable Energy Planning used in
10 Hierarchical Scaling of Biodiversity in Lagoon Ecosystems
11 Bird Strike Monitoring
Service Service Service Service Service Service Service Service Service Service Service
12 Earth Observation
26. 5 challenges (and 5+ solutions)
• HETEROGENEITY of the community’s
requirements, its data resources and tools
• GAP between current practice and future
vision
• SCALE of implementation of a pan-
European infrastructure, €375m, >25,000
users
27. Challenge of SCALE: Users and data generators in
the large Networks of Excellence
Terrestrial Long-Term
Natural science
Ecological Research Marine reference and focal sites
collections
(LTER) sites
28. SCALE solution:
Thinking globally, acting locally
• Organisation
– Top-down financial and legal governance model
– Project Office
• Technical direction and governance
– LifeWatch Reference Model
– Processes to support compliance
– Bottom-up community governance model
• Core ICT infrastructure
• Management of the product
– Product Management Board & Release strategy
• Support to the community
– Service Centre(s), Technical operations support
29. Core ICT (e-)Infrastructure
• Essential 'central' components
– Single portal access for all users
– Datasets & services / tools catalogues (registries)
– Access to computational resources
– Security (AAA)
– Provenance and citation tracking repository
– Annotations repository
– Virtual Collaborative Environments / VO / BTCN
– Workflow composition, execution and management
• Data & tool resources
– New data resources to be ‘admitted’
– Statistical, analytical & modelling tools
• Innovation Lab
• Intellectual property management
30. 5 challenges (and 5+ solutions)
• HETEROGENEITY of the community’s
requirements, its data resources and tools
• GAP between current practice and future
vision
• SCALE of implementation of a pan-
European infrastructure, €375m, >25,000
users
• PACE of innovation in ICTs
31. Challenge of PACE: Of innovation in ICT
• New technologies, products, services,
possibilities, every day
– Seeing the wood for the trees
• Technology decisions
– 2 years ago for construction that won’t
start until next year
– that have to last for 10 years?
32. PACE solution:
Divorce functionalities from technologies
• LifeWatch Reference Model
– Basis of technical strategy
• Standards-based
– ORCHESTRA RM
– OGC RM
– RM for ODP (ISO/IEC 10746)
• Viewpoints
– Enterprise, Information, Service
– Engineering, Technology
33. The LifeWatch Reference Model (‘LifeWatch-RM’)
Gives 3 freedoms:
• Technology independence
• Ability to extend
technical capabilities
– Functionalities
expressed as services
– Applications as
networks of service
instances
• Support for thematic
extensions
34. 5 challenges (and 5+ solutions)
• HETEROGENEITY of the community’s
requirements, its data resources and tools
• GAP between current practice and future
vision
• SCALE of implementation of a pan-
European infrastructure, €375m, >25,000
users
• PACE of innovation in ICTs
• FIT with mainstream industry and Higher
Education / Research sector directions for
ICT service
35. Challenge of FIT: e-Research lifecycle, Science 2.0
Source: De Roure (Southampton), Lyon (UKOLN)
36. Challenge of FIT: Collaboration infrastructure
Source: Niels van Dijk, SURFnet, Netherlands
37. FIT solution: A clear blueprint
“…shows sufficient ambition, but
also realism for the next few years”
External reviewers, June 2010
Technical
construction
Appli
ser
1. Coordination & management; central staff
2. Core ICT Infrastructure 1. Core
3. Data processing (incl. Analytical & 2. Supp
Modelling tools) 3. Supp
4. Data Resources Enabling
accelerated and 4. Them
5. Portal targeted data
6. Technical Framework and Architecture generation
1. External Data Facilities
2. Marine sites
3. Sensor data resources and
Innovation Lab 4. Systematics collections
5. Taxonomic backbone
38. FIT solution: Solutions for authentication
Shibboleth and OpenID, not X.509!
Source: Texas Digital Library
39. FIT solution: Linked Data
August 2010: >19billion triples
http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/
LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics
40. In conclusion
Thinking globally, Acting locally
The mechanism to address
the socio-technical challenge
of bringing communities
together and uniting them
behind common technical
approaches
Reference model,
open standards,
composable capabilities
Leads to interoperability and
flexibility to accommodate
novelty
41. Thank you
• Questions?
• Acknowledgements
– LifeWatch colleagues, in particular:
• Axel Poigné and Vera Hernandez-Ernst, Fraunhofer
IAIS, Germany for much of the Reference Model
• Herbert Schentz, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria
for assistance and thinking on semantic
interoperability