Coles S

Crompton Shirley

Matthews Brian

Neylon Cameron

Yang Erica

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1 Shirley Crompton, Brian Matthews, Erica Yang : STFC Scientific Computing  Cameron Neylon : STFC ISIS Simon Coles : University of Southampton, School of Chemistry ESC2012 Collaborative Information Management in Scientific Research Processes 2 ESC2012 Science and Technology Facilities Council • Research Funder – Provides large-scale scientific facilities for UK Science • ISIS, Diamond, CLF… • Scientific Computing – Facilities e-Infrastructure  • ICAT Data Catalogues • E-Publications Archive • Petabyte Data Store – Active contributor to data management, digital data preservation research and infrastructure building • ICAT, SRF,  Scidip-ES, SCAPE … • PanDATA, APARSEN…   3 ESC2012 Overview  •   The Webtracks project •   Our motivations •   The Webtracks approach •   Webtracks exemplars •   Future Work : SRF •   Summary  4 ESC2012 Webtracks Project • Web-scale link TRACKing for research data and publicationS • Develop an approach and mechanism for constructing and propagating linked data in the context of research activities • Building on prior work in Claddier, StoreLink on citation linking • Collaboration between: – Chemistry Dept, Southampton University – STFC Scientific Computing • Funded by the JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) Programme   http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/clip/webtracks.aspx 5 Experiment Publication Data  analysis Protein model Raw data  ESC2012 Electronic lab notebook Describe sample Derived data Describe derived data Data  Catalogue Describe algorithm Sample Publication The Scientific Research Process  (1/2) Diverse tools/services + Objects Publication 6 Experiment Publication Data  analysis Protein model Raw data  ESC2012 Electronic lab notebook Describe sample Derived data Describe derived data Data  Catalogue Describe algorithm Sample Publication The Scientific Research Process (2/2) Contents Dispersed Publication STFC Home Institution Pr tein Data Bank  On-line Journal    STFC 7 Experiment Publication Data  analysis Protein model Raw data  ESC2012 Electronic lab notebook Describe sample Derived data Describe derived data Data  Catalogue Describe algorithm Sample Publication  Adding Structured Citation Links   Publication providesMethodFor creator documents isDocumentedBy hasPI hasSample 8 R1 cito: cites cito: provides DataTo A Grand Experiment dc:title R2  A Federated Web of Research Objects   9 ESC2012 If we allow repositories to  communicate …. Experiment Data Data Data ICAT Post Data Data Data LabTrove Journal Paper Paper Paper Publisher 10 ESC2012 If we allow repositories to  communicate …. Experiment Data Data Data ICAT Post Data Data Data LabTrove Webtracks Webtracks Journal Paper Paper Paper Publisher Webtracks Webtracks 12 ESC2012 R1 cito: cites cito: provides DataTo The Grand Experiment dc:title R2 Querying the RDF graph to form Research containers  13 Research containers  ESC2012   Fragments of Annotated RDF graph capturing specific relationship between on-line research objects  Example usages…. My Paper Discovery of related objects My Citations Impact factor My Project Provenance tracing My Biblio Search  Research resource My       Expr Trusted publication  14 The Webtracks Approach ESC2012  • Inter-repository communication protocol • Based on Storelink  • Webtracks Java Restlet application   15 Related protocols ESC2012  • Trackbacks • track distributed blog ‘conversations’ • With fixed semantics • Semantic Pingback • RPC protocol • Salmons • RSS protocol, non-RDF approach • Claddier/Storelinks • P2P, no centralised service • Support fixed formats of metadata and link semantics • ….  16 The Webtracks InteRCom protocol ESC2012 R1 (Perma link) cito: cites R2 (DOI) A Grand Experiment dc:title cito: isCitedBy 17 ESC2012 Architecture (main classes) (based on Restlet Framework) IntercomApp Resource MyApp MyResource ServerResource Application 1 * ObjectsFacade DataFacade MyFacade Restlet 2.1 Webtracks User App 1 1 Data Layer Access App-Spec config (eg Security, Encoding, Tunnelling …) Resource Wrapper Extension point 18 ESC2012 Webtracks Resource Info Model 19 ESC2012 Webtracks-Icat Exemplar  Investigation Resource -DOI Landing Page - HTML rep with RDFa RDF rep Links Resource - HTML rep with RDFa 20 ESC2012 Webtracks-Epubs Exemplar  Expression Resource -HTML rep with RDFa RDF rep Links Resource - HTML rep with RDFa Epubs 21 InterCom Citation Linking ESC2012 ICAT DOI Landing Page Icat Investigation Links Page Epubs Expression Page Epubs Expression Links Page 22 ESC2012 Smart Research Framework  - experiments and the research life cycle 23 ESC2012 Smart Research Framework  - in process provenance capture 24 ESC2012 Smart Research Framework  - Schematic Scenario Instrument  Control Script  Instrument  Control Script  Instrument  Control Script  File Store SRF Engine (Reduction) (Model Fitting) ELN Beamline Data Catalogue Blog Posts  in ELN EPubs Linking With Webtracks  25 ESC2012 Smart Research Framework  - blog posts capturing lifecycle events in an experiment 26 Summary ESC2012  Collaborative Information Management via the intelligent pushing of citation links •   Leverage emerging Linked Data environment •  Link diverse types of digital research objects •  Facilitate access and discovery of related objects •  Restore context to dispersed digital research outputs •  No constraints on link semantics and metadata •  P2P, does not rely on a centralised service •  Flexible usage, link can be propagated at any time •  Mix and match research object networks from aggregated citation links according to the link resource/s or property/ies of interest. • …. 27  Webtracks : http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/clip/webtracks.aspx SRF : http://www.mylabnotebook.ac.uk/  Webtracks Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/webtracks/files/ ESC2012 

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