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A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.u k UKOLN is supported by: Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK JISC Conference, Birmingham, April 2008 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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Page 1: A centre of expertise in digital information management  UKOLN is supported by: Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future Dr Liz Lyon

                                                             

A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is supported by:

Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future

Dr Liz Lyon

Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

JISC Conference, Birmingham, April 2008

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Page 2: A centre of expertise in digital information management  UKOLN is supported by: Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future Dr Liz Lyon

Four themes

1. Citizen science2. Collective intelligence3. Predictive data-centric science4. Mixed reality environments

(Multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral activity is assumed……)

Page 3: A centre of expertise in digital information management  UKOLN is supported by: Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future Dr Liz Lyon

Collaboration: with other scientists and the public…..

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Citizen science

• Collaborative activity not just with peers • Interaction with the public • Citizen science• Crowd-sourcing? Capacity-building?

• We need dedicated interfaces to exploit this under-used workforce

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Collective intelligence

• Today: aggregations, comments, tags, annotations, ratings, reviews, opinions…

• Tomorrow: “collective intelligence” to analyse, assess, mine, extract, evaluate….

• We need tools to leverage this resource

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“National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announces 5 new Centers of Excellence focussing on the emerging field of Predictive Science.”

US DoE $17million grant to each Center

Simulations of hypersonic flight, supernovae….

7th March, 2008

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Predictive science• Content is infrastructure e.g. Protein Data Bank

• Today: primary data, images, text• Tomorrow: digests, simulations, models

• Today: discovery to delivery• Tomorrow: mine & model, simulate & synthesise

• Today: statistics• Tomorrow: Predictive science

We need verification & validation methodologies….

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“London Polyclinic” Imperial College / Nat Phys Lab

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Mixed reality environments

• Opportunities for participative exploration• Rich test-bed for experimentation• Mimic, innovate and extend• Immerse and experience• Ubiquitous? Pervasive? Persistent?

• We need to achieve seamless transition, integration, linking between worlds…..

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A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

Slides will be available at :

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html