2011 canarie user's forum
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I was invited to briefly (15min) discuss what researchers need in terms of a national cyberinfrastructure strategy.TRANSCRIPT
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
What researchers want?
Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Carleton University
Co-PI, C-BRASS NEP2
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
somebody who teaches courses, trains students at the undergraduate, graduate and post-
graduate levels, writes grants, does research, deals with the administration, writes and
publishes papers, and tries to have some kind of life
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we’re successful we’re successful because of the help because of the help we get along the waywe get along the way
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
first, we all have different needs
second, the opinions expressed herein are reflect mine and those I’ve heard in one-on-
one and group discussions
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
it’s not so much that there’s something fundamentally wrong, it’s just that we can
do it better
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
we can build from a foundation of good work and good intentions
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
but, we really need a vision we can believe in
government and funding agencies that understand
and facilitate the broad spectrum across research
and development, sustainability,
commercialization and technology transfer
a roadmap for building out national cyberinfrastructure (network, computing, data,
instruments, community)
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
A successful strategy is one where
we are given financial, material and professional support to accomplish our (shared) objectives 1. integrated cyberinfrastructure that leverages
the investments made in network, computing and middleware towards knowledge discovery
2. professional capacity to develop NEP projects into sustainable and/or commercial endeavors
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
computing services (HPC / cloud / whatever) should exist to satisfy different scientific
computing requirements
HPC CLOUD
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
Research creates huge amounts of poorly analyzed data
represented using ad-hoc formats that typically can’t be efficiently indexed, integrated, queried
or consumed
it impedes progress, and this needs to be addressed in a meaningful way
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
The Semantic Web is a web of knowledge
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It is about standards for publishing, sharing and querying knowledge drawn from diverse sources
It enables the answering of sophisticated questions
cyberinfrastructure needs to make use
of such standards
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
myth #1: myth #1: People don’t like People don’t like or want to share or want to share datadata
they will do so they will do so with proper with proper incentivesincentives
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maximize investments in middlewarei)promote integration and interoperability
ii)facilitate sustainability and commercializaiton
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010
Specific recommendations
• define a coherent vision – to guide and be advocated by government,
funding agencies, researchers and industry
• use / extend data standards and promote software interoperability– facilitate software and data as services
• develop expert capacity and involve professional support networks– commercialization and technology transfer
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Dumontier::CANARIE user forum 2010