The EGI blog - steveb

The 4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:08:00 GMT

EuroMed 2012 brought together researchers from many countries across Europe and beyond in the historical city of Limassol, Cyprus to present hundreds of papers on the rapidly expanding field of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH). Presentations covered a wide spectrum of activity from 4D historical recreations of Hamburg during significant periods in its history superimposed onto Google Earth, to ARCHES, a geospatial catalogue of immovable artifacts, to various mathematical and chemical models of fire damage and corrosion and their adverse effects on cultural artifacts. Traditionally, much of the research into DCH has been undertaken by individuals or small teams in universities and museums, or memory institutions as they are now often called, reflecting their underlying purpose as custodians of our irreplaceable collective memory. However, increasingly researchers are turning to their colleagues in engineering and science departments to enable them to dig deeper into our understanding of the processes involved in understanding preservation and curation.

EGI Champions

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:46:00 GMT

Last week was Prague for the EGI Technical Forum; this week is Amsterdam, back at EGI HQ and an opportunity for reflection, thankyous and following up on leads, questions and other fresh new opportunities.

User Community Board meeting: 21 August, 2012

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:26:00 GMT

The EGI User Community Board (UCB) met on Tuesday 21^st of August for a teleconference. The meeting comprised various representatives from EGI.eu together with representatives from AUGER, Computational Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Life Sciences. There were also two representatives from STFC, UK on behalf of the UK NGI presenting two technical talks on “VOMS Proxy Lifetime” and “User Accounting Data Retention”.

EGI Community Forum - Cloud discussion

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:28:00 GMT

I'm currently enjoying the Cloud Discussion session which is explaining and opening up the work of the Federated Cloud Task Force which has been running since last September. The Task Force was established to take forward the opportunities for running secure virtual machines across EGI's partners, providers and users. The Task Force was given a formal mandate following a well-attended workshop in Amsterdam at EGI.eu's headquarters last May. The key features of this mandate were an 18 month timeframe to deliver a blueprint and a collection of clearly defined proof of concept demonstrators.

RAMIRI - Prague workshop

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:33:00 GMT

The RAMIRI project (http://www.ramiri.eu/) has just launched the second series of learning workshops for those involved in establishing or running research infrastructures (RIs) in Europe. RAMIRI stands for Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures and the project has a vision of fostering knowledge transfer, network building and the capture of best practice. The widely distributed nature of the European Grid infrastructure represents a new departure for research infrastructures which traditionally have been either single sites or locally distributed. Consequently, I found myself in Prague rubbing shoulders with people running synchrotrons, radar stations, laser facilities and telescope arrays. Participants had arrived from many corners of Europe and represented many professions and career paths from psychologists and lawyers to project managers and linguists. The common interest was the challenge of planning and running international organizational structures to manage large and advanced research facilities be they physical Research Infrastructures or e-Infrastructures like EGI.

User Community Communiqué

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:32:00 GMT

The User Community Board comprises representatives from groupings of researchers that EGI refers to as Virtual Research Communities or VRCs. The UCB meets monthly typically via telephone conference with open face to face meetings held twice a year at the ...

User Community Board meeting: 25 November, 2011

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:45:00 GMT

The User Community Board met via a teleconference on 25th November 2011. Representatives were present from the following communities: Earth Sciences, Life Sciences (LSGC), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Auger, Digital Cultural Heritage and WeNMR as well as ...

Cracow Grid Workshow 2011 - CGW2011

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:44:00 GMT

I have just returned from a very stimulating and rewarding three days at the 2011 Cracow Grid Workshop. Apart from discovering that Cracow is further South than Prague, well very nearly, I also learnt more about grid-related initiatives that relate to the ...

User Community Board Meeting: 31 October, 2011

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:40:00 GMT

Meeting summary for publication and circulation. The User Community Board met via a teleconference on 31st October 2011. Representatives were present from the following communities: Earth Sciences, Life Sciences (LSGC), Auger, Digital Cultural Heritage ...

User Community Board meeting: 23 August, 2011

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:38:00 GMT

Since the last User Community Board (UCB) meeting the User Community Support Team (UCST) has been involved in preparations for the EGI Technical Forum to be held in Lyon in September from 19th to the 23rd. Many presentation proposals have been received ...