Pathway to SEASR Workshop in March 2009 in North Carolina

1. Pathways to SEASR
National Center for Supercomputing Applications!
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The SEASR project and its Meandre infrastructure!
are sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

2. Agenda Day 1 Morning
Friday, March 6, 2009
• 8:30am Registration and Breakfast
• 9:00am SEASR Overview, Loretta Auvil
• 10:00am Break
• 10:30am SEASR Application Examples and Demonstrations
– Zotero and SEASR, Xavier Llorà
– Text Analysis and SEASR, Loretta Auvil
– Audio Analysis and SEASR (NEMA, NESTER), Loretta Auvil
– Fedora and SEASR, Bernie Acs
– Discus and SEASR, Xavier Llorà
• Noon Lunch

3. Agenda Day 1 Afternoon
• 1:00pm SEASR Architecture, Installation, Xavier Llorà and Bernie Acs
• 2:00pm SEASR Tools, Loretta Auvil
• 2:30pm Break
• 3:00pm Breakout Session
– Humanities: SEASR Tools with Hand On Demo, Loretta Auvil
– Developers: SEASR Technical Details
• 4:30pm End of Day

4. Agenda Day 2
Saturday, March 7, 2009
• 8:30am Registration and Breakfast
• 9:00am Breakout Sessions
• 10:00am Break
• 10:30am Breakout Sessions
• Noon Lunch
• 1:00pm Wrap Up Session
• 2:00pm End of Day

5. Workshop Objective
The objective of the workshop is:
• To explain and demonstrate the utility of SEASR
for digital humanities, and to bring you to a point
where you could deploy, contribute and utilize the
SEASR environment.
SEASR + TOOLS + EXEMPLARS + HANDS ON

6. Workshop Goals
The goals of the workshop are:
• LEARN: Provide a detailed understanding of the SEASR framework
• LEARN: Provide a foundation and examples for participant teams to
use SEASR in a study or inquiry
• ADOPT: Share participant generated research plans to utilize SEASR
• INSTALL: Provide detailed instructions on how to install, build
components, integrate existing applications, and maintain the SEASR
environment
• SUPPORT: Develop plans for resolution of issues raised by the user
community in utilization of SEASR
• SUSTAIN: Develop a plan for community driven future development
and dissemination of SEASR
Learn + Adopt + Sustain

7. The SEASR Picture

8. SEASR: Reach + Relevance + Reuse + Repeatability
SEASR emphasizes flexibility, scalability, modularity,
provides community hub and access to heterogeneous
data and computational systems
– Semantic driven environment for SOA interoperability
– Encourages sharing and participation for building communities
– Modular construction allows flows to be modified and configured
to encourage reusability within and across domains
– Enables a mashup and integration of tools
– Data-intensive flows can be executed on a simple desktop or a
large cluster(s) without modification
– Computation can be created for distributed execution on servers
where the content lives
– User accessibility to control trust and compliance with required
copyright license of content
– Relies on standardized Resource Description Framework (RDF) to
define components and flow

9. SEASR Apps SEASR Plugins SEASR Web Apps SEASR Services
Meandre Data‐Intensive Flows
SEASR Components
Developer Tools
Data Analy5cs Visualiza5on
Gateway Connec5ons Descrip5ve Sta5s5cs Graphing
Data Persistence Predic5ve Modeling Modeling Vis
Data Transforma5on Discovery Info Vis (small mul5ples)
Natural Lang Processing
Component Repository Component Discovery
Meandre Infrastructure
Shared Stores File Systems Metadata Stores SOA Gateways
Virtualiza5on Infrastructure

10. Data Driven Models

11. Knowledge Discovery in Data

12. Workbench
• Web-based UI
• Components and flows
are retrieved from server
• Additional locations of
components and flows
can be added to server
• Create flow using a
graphical drag and drop
interface
• Change property values
• Execute the flow

13. Community Hub

14. SEASR @ Work – Zotero
• Plugin to Firefox
• Zotero manages the
collection
• Launch SEASR Analytics
– Citation Analysis uses the
JUNG network importance
algorithms to rank the authors
in the citation network that is
exported as RDF data from
Zotero to SEASR
– Zotero Export to Fedora
through SEASR
– Saves results from SEASR
Analytics to a Collection
• Launch MONK Processing
– MONK DB Ingestion Workflow

15. SEASR @ Work – Fedora
Interactive Web
Application
Web Service

16. SEASR @ Work – Entity Mash-up
• Entity Extraction
with OpenNLP
• Locations
viewed on
Google Map
• Dates viewed on
Simile Timeline

17. SEASR @ Work – Audio Analysis
• NEMA: Executes a
SEASR flow for each
run
– Loads audio data
– Extracts features for
every 10 sec moving
window of audio
– Loads and applies the
models
– Sends results back to the
WebUI
• NESTER: Annotation of
Audio via Spectral
Analysis

18. SEASR @ Work – MONK
Executes flows for
each analysis
requested
– Predictive
modeling using
Naïve Bayes
– Predictive
modeling using
Support Vector
Machines (SVM)

19. SEASR @ Work – DISCUS
• On-demand usage of
analytics while surfing
– While navigating
request analytics to be
performed on page
– Text extraction and
cleaning
• Summarization and key
work extraction
– List the important
terms on the page
being analyzed
– Provide relevant short
summaries
• Visual maps
– Provide a visual
representation of the
key concepts
– Show the graph of
relations between
concepts

20. SEASR and UIMA : Emotion Tracking
Goal is to have this type of Visualization to track emotions across a
text document (Leveraging flare.prefuse.org)

21. Tag Cloud of All RegForm Text

22. Pathways to SEASR
National Center for Supercomputing Applications!
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The SEASR project and its Meandre infrastructure!
are sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation