This document discusses the Sustainable Environment - Actionable Data (SEAD) project. SEAD aims to provide data services to sustainability researchers by developing tools that address challenges like heterogeneous and small datasets. It plans to move data curation upstream, involve domain scientists, and leverage social media and metadata. SEAD will integrate these active curation services into a federated infrastructure to preserve datasets long-term. The project is led by researchers from multiple institutions and funded by the National Science Foundation.
These are the slides for Robert H. McDonald for the Future Trends Panel Presentation at the the Inter-institutional Approaches to Supporting Scholarly Communication Symposium held on August 16, 2012 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
This presentation was given by Jon Wheeler and Karl Benedict of the University of New Mexico during the joint NISO-NFAIS Virtual Conference held on December 7, 2016
RDAP 15 Local ICPSR Data Curation Workshop Pilot ProjectASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Linda Detterman, Jennifer Doty, Jared Lyle, Amy Pienta, Lizzy Rolando and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
March 26-28, 2014
Dharma Akmon, Education and Outreach Specialist, SEAD, University of Michigan
Amber E. Budden, Director for Community Engagement and Outreach, DataONE, University of New Mexico
David Van Riper, Director of Spatial Data, TerraPop
Mary Whitton, Project Manager, Datanet Federation Consortium
Information technology and resources are an integral and indispensable part of the contemporary academic enterprise. In particular, technological advances have nurtured a new paradigm of data-intensive research. However, far too much of this activity still takes place in silos, to the detriment of open scholarly inquiry, integrity, and advancement. To counteract this tendency, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been developing and deploying a comprehensive suite of curation services that facilitate widespread data management, preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse. Through these services UC3 is engaging with new communities of use: in addition to its traditional stakeholders in cultural heritage memory organizations, e.g., libraries, museums, and archives, the UC3 service suite is now attracting significant adoption by research projects, laboratories, and individual faculty researchers. This webinar will present an introduction to five specific services – DMPTool, DataUp, EZID, Merritt, Web Archiving Service (WAS) – applicable to data curation throughout the scholarly lifecycle, two recent initiatives in collaboration with UC campuses, UC Berkeley Research Hub and UC San Francisco DataShare, and the ways in which they encourage and promote new communities of practice and greater transparency in scholarly research.
These are the slides for Robert H. McDonald for the Future Trends Panel Presentation at the the Inter-institutional Approaches to Supporting Scholarly Communication Symposium held on August 16, 2012 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
This presentation was given by Jon Wheeler and Karl Benedict of the University of New Mexico during the joint NISO-NFAIS Virtual Conference held on December 7, 2016
RDAP 15 Local ICPSR Data Curation Workshop Pilot ProjectASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Linda Detterman, Jennifer Doty, Jared Lyle, Amy Pienta, Lizzy Rolando and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
March 26-28, 2014
Dharma Akmon, Education and Outreach Specialist, SEAD, University of Michigan
Amber E. Budden, Director for Community Engagement and Outreach, DataONE, University of New Mexico
David Van Riper, Director of Spatial Data, TerraPop
Mary Whitton, Project Manager, Datanet Federation Consortium
Information technology and resources are an integral and indispensable part of the contemporary academic enterprise. In particular, technological advances have nurtured a new paradigm of data-intensive research. However, far too much of this activity still takes place in silos, to the detriment of open scholarly inquiry, integrity, and advancement. To counteract this tendency, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been developing and deploying a comprehensive suite of curation services that facilitate widespread data management, preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse. Through these services UC3 is engaging with new communities of use: in addition to its traditional stakeholders in cultural heritage memory organizations, e.g., libraries, museums, and archives, the UC3 service suite is now attracting significant adoption by research projects, laboratories, and individual faculty researchers. This webinar will present an introduction to five specific services – DMPTool, DataUp, EZID, Merritt, Web Archiving Service (WAS) – applicable to data curation throughout the scholarly lifecycle, two recent initiatives in collaboration with UC campuses, UC Berkeley Research Hub and UC San Francisco DataShare, and the ways in which they encourage and promote new communities of practice and greater transparency in scholarly research.
SEAD: Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data - Robert McDonald - RDAP12 ASIS&T
SEAD: Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data
Leveraging Existing Cyberinfrastructure for Long-Term Sustainability
Margaret Hedstrom-University of Michigan
James Myers-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert H. McDonald-Indiana University
Presentation at Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
22 March 2012
Virtual Research Environments supporting tailor-made data management service...Blue BRIDGE
Presented by Pasquale Pagano of CNR at the BlueBRIDGE Workshop at SeaTech Week 2016 in Brest, France. http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu/events/join-bluebridge-10th-biennial-sea-tech-week-brest-france
A Social Content Delivery Network for Scientific Cooperation: Vision, Design...Simon Caton
Data volumes have increased so significantly that we need to carefully consider how we interact with, share, and analyze data to avoid bottlenecks. In contexts such as eScience and scientific computing, a large emphasis is placed on collaboration, resulting in many well-known challenges in ensuring that data is in the right place at the right time and accessible by the right users. Yet these simple requirements create substantial challenges for the distribution, analysis, storage, and replication of potentially "large" datasets. Additional complexity is added through constraints such as budget, data locality, usage, and available local storage. In this paper, we propose a "socially driven" approach to address some of the challenges within (academic) research contexts by defining a Social Data Cloud and underpinning Content Delivery Network: a Social CDN (S-CDN). Our approach leverages digitally encoded social constructs via social network platforms that we use to represent (virtual) research communities. Ultimately, the S-CDN builds upon the intrinsic incentives of members of a given scientific community to address their data challenges collaboratively and in proven trusted settings. We define the design and architecture of a S-CDN and investigate its feasibility via a coauthorship case study as first steps to illustrate its usefulness.
dkNET Office Hours - "Are You Ready for 2023: New NIH Data Management and Sha...dkNET
For all proposals submitted on/after January 25 2023, NIH requires data sharing from all NIH-funded studies. Do you have appropriate data management practices and sharing plans in place to meet these requirements? Have questions or need some help? Join the dkNET office hours to learn about NIH’s policy (NOT-OD-21-013) and available resources that could help.
In our upcoming session on March 3, 2023, we are pleased to invite Dr. Jeffrey Grethe, dkNET co-PI and expert on Data Management and Sharing, Dr. Rebecca Rodriguez, Repository Program Director at NIDDK, Ms. Reaya Reuss, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Director at NIDDK, and the support team members from the NIDDK Central Repository. They will be available to answer any questions you may have.
*Previous Office Hours Slides and Recording: https://dknet.org/about/blog/2535
Upcoming Webinars Schedule: https://dknet.org/about/webinar
RUresearch: Supporting the Management and Preservation of Research Data - Ale...ASIS&T
RUresearch: Supporting the Management and Preservation of Research Data
Aletia Morgan
Presentation at Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
22 March 2012
Knowledge Base+: a Cloud-Based Community Knowledge Basesherif user group
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If Big Data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional systems, thereby necessitating alternative processing measures, we are looking at an essentially technological challenge that IT managers are best equipped to address.
The DCC is currently working with 18 HEIs to support and develop their capabilities in the management of research data and, whilst the aforementioned challenge is not usually core to their expressed concerns, are there particular issues of curation inherent to Big Data that might force a different perspective?
We have some understanding of Big Data from our contacts in the Astronomy and High Energy Physics domains, and the scale and speed of development in Genomics data generation is well known, but the inability to provide sufficient processing capacity is not one of their more frequent complaints.
That’s not to say that Big Science and its Big Data are free of challenges in data curation; only that they are shared with their lesser cousins, where one might say that the real challenge is less one of size than diversity and complexity.
This brief presentation explores those aspects of data curation that go beyond the challenges of processing power but which may lend a broader perspective to the technology selection process.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
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.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
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
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
5. SEAD Partners
Beth Plale
Margaret Hedstrom, PI Katy Börner
Ann Zimmerman Robert McDonald
Praveen Kumar James Myers
George Alter & Bryan Beecher
6. SEAD’s Goals
• Provide data services that address the pressing needs
of researchers working toward sustainability
• Integrate these services into an generalizable “Active
and Social Curation” infrastructure well-suited to the
social structure and economics of long-tail research
communities
• Develop capabilities to package and migrate datasets
to a federated repository infrastructure for long-term
preservation
• Education, outreach, & training, to maximize value and
disseminate SEAD’s contributions to other projects and
communities
7. SEAD’s Strategy
• Move data curation upstream in the data life
cycle
• Involve domain scientists in setting priorities for
evolution of data and services
• Use a wide variety of mechanisms to remain resilient
in a dynamic research and technology environment
8. Active and Social Curation
• Engage researchers during projects, not at the end
• Use information that is automatically captured or
generated through tools to reduce the costs of
metadata collection and to capture its value in
actionable form
• Further reduce costs by re-engineering curation
processes to leverage this rich metadata and
volunteered effort
10. SEAD Layercake View
• Services over an Network of Data
Producers
active content
layer that is
backed Web User Interface
by/harvested Active Content Repository
into a federated Services Provided
archive Content
Mining
Curation
Decisions
Archival
data
Other
services
infrastructure generation
based on Virtual Archives
institutional Institutional Repositories
resources Data
Conservancy
IU RPI UIUC UM ICPSR
User Network