SI2 Meeting 2015
SI2 Meeting Notes: Feb 17-18, 2015 Arlington VA
CyberGIS S. Wang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Discussed building a GIS interface to CyberShake data, but we need to build a rest-based interface to the CyberShake DB first:
- CyberGIS
Group discussions recommended all projects make your code citable.
- GitHub has advice on the subject:
- Citable Code
- The plenary was from the yt-project.org software
- YT Vis project
- Stan Ahalt mentioned his presentation on forming a Water Resources Institute
- Water Resource Institute Talk
Group mentioned a site called hackershool.com https://www.hackerschool.com
UK version of SI2: http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk
Discussion about the ASF, which is the Accelerating Studies foundation: http://accelerating.org/index.html
Projects for tracking software or tracking scientific data especially with RDF. First the Manchester project, which became myexperiment http://www.myexperiment.org/home
Learned about the mechanical turk on amazon, apparently site for software help: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Discussed Models of sustainability: HDF5 group, ICERM http://icerm.brown.edu/home/index.php http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
Suggested book: Blue Ocean Strategies
Discussion of Diffusion of Innovations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
Speaker used sites to track his/her impact:
https://www.openhub.net
http://sciencetoolbox.org
NSF person suggested community needed to:
(a) define a reference architecture for scientific computing, and
(b) identify the key components, and
( c ) , converge (or reduce the options) on solutions for each component
