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• 1. The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users Applications Day

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• De Roure, D. and Goble, C. (2007) myExperiment A Web 2.0 Virtual Research Environment. In:International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments , May 2007, Edinburgh, UK.

...revisited Or... 3. 4. 1. The Long Tail

• Our target users are the large number of scientists conducting the routine processes of science on a daily basis.

• Through sharing we have the potential to enable smart scientists to be smarter and propagate their smartness, in turn enabling other scientists to become better and conduct better science.

• myExperiment currently has1640 registered users, 138 groups, 651 workflows, 170 files and 50 packs

• Lots of unique IP visits!

• Total viewings: 85168Most viewed: 2934Total downloads: 68525 Most downloaded: 3524

• We share process

• There is evidence in papers and talks that people are finding and using workflows to achieve new scientific results

5. 2. Data is the Next Intel Inside

• myExperiment understands that scientists are focused on data, not software or one particular workflow engine.

• Furthermore, workflows themselves are the data of myExperiment and provide its unique value.

• Taverna 1, GWorkflowDL, Taverna 2 beta, Chemistry Plan, Trident (Package), Trident (XOML), WSVLAM

• Packs are our new Intel Inside?

6. 3. Users Add Value

• myExperiment makes it easy to find workflows and is designed to make it useful and straightforward to share workflows and add workflows to the pool.

• To succeed we draw on the insights into the incentive models of scientists gained through experience with Taverna.

• Largest public workflow collection

• BUT Upload incentive has long return on investment

• • Paul Fisher gets support requests not credit!

• We are prepared to pay expert curators

• Quality triage imminent

7. 4. Network Effects by Default

• myExperiment aggregates user data as a side-effect of using the VRE.

• The ability to execute workflows from myExperiment, and the integration of tools such as Taverna with myExperiment, further enable us to achieve increased value through usage.

• Google works!

• Privacy restricts recommendation

• Biocatalogue takes this forward

8. 5. Some Rights Reserved

• myExperiment users require protection as well as sharing, but the environment is designed for maximum ease of sharing to achieve collective benefits workflows are "hackable" and "remixable".

• Initiatives such as Science Commons provide a useful context for this.

• Compare with OpenWetWare

• E-Lab lifecycle...

9. 6. The Perpetual Beta

• myExperiment is an online service indeed a collection of online services and is continually evolving in response to its users.

• To support this, the project commenced with developers being embedded in the user community.

• Through day-to-day contact between designers and researchers, design is both inspired and validated.

• Daily dev meetings, weekly management meetings, monthly hackfests & team meetings with guests

• Test servers (virtualised)

• Friends and family, champions

10. 7. Cooperate, Don't Control

• myExperiment is a network of cooperating data services with simple interfaces which make it easy to work with content.

• It both provides services and reuses the service of others. It aims to support lightweight programming models so that it can easily be part of loosely coupled systems.

• Its not a lightweight set of components

• Nor is Facebook!

11. HTML For Developers mySQL Search Engine reviews ratings groups friendships tags Enactor files workflows ` RDF Store SPARQL endpoint Managed REST API facebook iGoogle android XML API config profiles packs credits 12. 8. Software Above the Level of a Single Device

• The current model of Taverna running on the scientists desktop PC or laptop is evolving into myExperiment being available through a variety of interfaces and supporting workflow execution.

• Interfaces for iGoogle, Facebook and Android

13. 14.

• Fit in, Dont Force Change

• Jam today and more jam tomorrow

• Just in Time and Just Enough

• Act Local, think Global

• Enable Users to Add Value

• Design for Network Effects

Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists

• Keep your Friends Close

• Embed

• Keep Sight of the Bigger Picture

• Favours will be in your Favour

• Know your users

• Expect and Anticipate Change

De Roure, D. and Goble, C. (2009) Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists. IEEE Software vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 88-95, Jan/Feb 2009. 15.

• Scientists do share also see OpenWetWare

• • Looking at upload incentives

• Web2 Principles worked

• • Privacy, credit, attribution, licensing really matter

• We have chosen a software platform that enables us to spend more time with the users in development and provide agile response in operation

• Next: controlled vocabularies, navigation of results, repository integration, recommendations, ...

• We want to explode myExperiment into an e-Lab what are the components, services and research objects?

• Contributions of the National Centre for e-Social Science have been crucial

Closing remarks 16.

• Contact

• David De Roure

• [email protected]

• Carole Goble

• [email_address]

• Further info

• wiki.myexperiment.org

• Thanks

• The myGrid Consortium National Centre for e-Social Science