2008-01-30: JMyers: Enabling Science with Cyberinfrastructure

Social Aspect of Cyberinfrastructure - Dan Atkins
Need to make technology fit the way people work
Web 1 - people publish only when done/ Web2.0 text doesn't have to be complete, or all parts in one place
YouTube Video The Machine is us/ing us
Amdahl's Law - system is limited by slowest part - Humans are the limiting step in web2.0 system. Parts that can be computerized benefit
Workspaces have resources/data, tools, discussion
Different point in talk also mentioned tools for groups (Wiki, doc repository, chat, task list, scenario repository, training material)
Tagging is annotation to organize content in multiple hierarchies
YouTube allows storage of content in one place and then to embed the content in another website with commentary.
Reusable, plugable components are the key to building systems that can survive time and evolve and get richer and richer - just plan for change
Unique identifying tag allows multiple applications to pull data pertaining to one object.
Workflow-> Provenance -> RDF - capture the process, capture/publish the workflow
Let people use the part of the tools that they know
Wiki is collaborative portal ( create, publish, explore, repeat - publish before done.)
Good Cyberinfrastructure:
- Evolves as fast as research
- Enabling not stifling
- Research connect practice
- Piecewise approach ?
- Ubiquitous/Persistent
- Empower the individual
Context
- Social
- Geo
- Causal
- Concept