SI2 Meeting 2015

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SI2 Meeting Notes: Feb 17-18, 2015 Arlington VA

CyberGIS - 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.

The plenary was from the yt-project.org software

Stan Ahalt mentioned his presentation on forming a Water Resources Institute

Group mentioned a site called hackershool.com

UK version of SI2:

Discussion about the ASF, which is the Accelerating Studies foundation:

Discussed projects for tracking software or tracking scientific data especially with RDF called myexperiment

Learned about the mechanical turk on amazon, apparently site for software help:

Discussed Models of sustainability including HDF5 group and ICERM

Suggested book of Software Sustainability:

  • 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

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