Keynote talk for Workshop on Managing for Usability: Challenges and Opportunities for E-Science Project Management, 10-11 April 2008, OeRC, University of Oxford, UK

1. David De Roure and Carole Goble Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists

2. Our e-Science context 6 principles of design for adoption 6 principles of user engagement The myExperiment experience Reflections

4. CombeChem my Grid Taverna CoAKTinG Memetic CREW CombeChem platform OMII-UK myGrid myGrid platform myExperiment

6. X-Ray e -Lab Analysis Properties Properties e -Lab Simulation Video Diffractometer G rid Middleware Structures Database www.combechem.org Iconic CombeChem Picture

7. scientists Digital Libraries Graduate Students Undergraduate Students experimentation Data, Metadata Provenance Workflows Ontologies The social process of science Local Web Repositories Virtual Learning Environment Technical Reports Reprints Peer-Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers Preprints & Metadata Certified Experimental Results & Analyses

8. www.smarttea.org Smart Tea

11. Kepler Triana BPEL Ptolemy II

13. 40 Taverna downloads per day taverna.sourceforge.net 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

14. OMII-UK provides free Open Source software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Research community. Our software includes Software Solutions, which are easy-to-use and easy-to-install software packages that solve common e-Research problems, and the Development Kit, which is a set of inter-operable software components that can be linked together to provide bespoke functionality. OMII-UK supports Open Source software development by commissioning developers to produce software with the functionality required by our user community. omii.ac.uk

15. e-Science Value Chain © Infrastructure Provider Component Provider Solution Provider e-Science End User OMII OMII-UK

19. scientists Graduate Students Undergraduate Students experimentation Data, Metadata Provenance Workflows Ontologies Digital Libraries The social process of science 2.0 Local Web Repositories Virtual Learning Environment Technical Reports Reprints Peer-Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers Preprints & Metadata Certified Experimental Results & Analyses

24. Carole Goble

38. 24/5/2007 | myExperiment | Slide

39. Google Gadget

40. Ownership and Attribution

41. ` Enactor HTML XML Snapshot map of resources with their relationships and versions users descriptions groups friendships tags blobs workflows

46. e-Science Pipeline e-Science Technology Creators & Integrators Applications Research EE Research Socio-economic & Commercial Innovation e-Science bespoke tailoring Mass Use by Researchers 5 years 5 years 5 years CS Research e-Science 10s of integrators 100s of embedded consultants 1000s of research users The Arrow Problem Malcolm Atkinson NB This isn’t wrong!

48. Web Services RESTful APIs cmd lines ssh http Web Browser Mobile phone iPod Car Equipment PDA P2P OeRC mashups workflows services applications Subject ICT experts Computer Scientists Software Companies Workflow tools Ruby on Rails ecosystem Scientists open source Software Engineers nesc

49. N 2 N N

50. One Middleware 2N N N

51. Middleware ? N N Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware Polynomial involving N1, N2 and M