Social Networking and Collaborative Tools

Social Networking and Collaborative Tools AToL Workshop Breakout William Barnett Research Technologies, Indiana University March 8, 2008 What is a Social Network Service? • Wikipedia definition: A social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software. Most services are primarily web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as • • • • • • • chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, • discussion groups, and so on. Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 NSF‟s Goals for Virtual Organizations (Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery) • To catalyze the development, implementation and evolution of a functionally complete national cyberinfrastructure that integrates both physical and cyberinfrastructure assets and services to support VOs To promote and support the establishment of world-class VOs that are secure, efficient, reliable, accessible, usable, pervasive, persistent and interoperable, and that are able to exploit the full range of research and education tools available at any given time. To support the development of common cyberinfrastructure resources, services, and tools enabling the effective, efficient creation and operation of end-to-end cyberinfrastructure systems for and across all science and engineering fields, nationally and internationally. March 8, 2008 • • Barnett: Social Networking NSF Building Effective Virtual Organizations • 2008 BEVO Workshop http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/events/VirtOrg2008/index.php?pg=main • • • • Best Practices and Success Stories Infrastructures and Technologies Project Management and Organization Fostering Ongoing Collaboration • NSF Virtual Organization Funding: • Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) • Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet) Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Research Virtual Organizations Phase 1: EXAMPLE: NEESGrid: Cyberinfrastructure to facilitate simultaneous multisite earthquake engineering experimentation/simulation (B.F. Spencer, U. of Illinois) • • • • • • • Barnett: Social Networking Tele-control & Tele-observation Electronic Notebook Advanced Data & Metadata Remote Collaboration Core Grid Services Security Simulation March 8, 2008 Research Virtual Organizations Phase 2: EXAMPLE: TeraGrid: high end compute, data and visualization resources to the nation‟s academic researchers (JP Navarro, U. of Chicago) • • • • • • • Barnett: Social Networking Make science more productive through an integrated set of very-high capability resources (ASTA Projects) Bring TeraGrid capabilities to the broad science community (Science Gateways) Provide a coordinated, general purpose, reliable set of services and resources (Grid interoperability working group) 9 resource providers of: supercomputers, high end storage systems, visualization hardware, very high speed backbones Coordinated authorization and allocation process (Globus) Science Gateways (20+) of Web portals or applications that serve specific communities or projects Management model as single, integrated facility March 8, 2008 Research Virtual Organizations Next Gen: „Human Cyberinfrastructure‟ (HCI) of Web 2.0 technologies, user-defined mashups, Semantic Web, (aka e-Science in Europe) • • • • • Self-published scientific workflows (eg. MyExperiment) Cloud Computing (temporary virtual machines or storage) Organizational Hubs (eg. NanoHUB) Grid Computing Environments … others? The Goal is to transform science and lead to discoveries that otherwise would not happen. Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Community Sites Reinforces weak social linkages – use existing or build your own? LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com) professional networking, contact management, information resource, job seeking Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) personal social utility: gossip, chit-chat, social coordination, fun toys MySpace (http://www.myspace.com) personal communication; personal self expression, gossip, social coordination MyExperiment (http://myexperiment.org) scientist created shared workflows, research collaboration Ning (http://www.ning.com) tools to create social networks Club Penguin (http://clubpenguin.com) for the next next gen Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 MyExperiment: Self-Published Workflows “a community social network, a market place, a platform for launching workflows and a gateway to other publishing environments” • Scientists create workflows, hence have intellectual control • Coordinates services and links resources • Build once, use many times. Allows sharing, re-using, repurposing • A repository of experimental workflows March 8, 2008 Generic protein sequence analysis – performs an homology search followed by multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis. By M.B. Monteiro Barnett: Social Networking Content Sharing Low barriers to contributed content, community enforcement Flickr (http://flikr.com) post, comment, tag, rate, and organize photos YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) post, comment (blog), tag, rate, video clips Googledocs (http://docs.google.com) create and share documents, including web-based word processor and spreadsheet SciVee (http://www.scivee.tv) science ‘pubcasts’, blogs, and discussions (part of PLoS) Scribd (http://scribd.com) library of self-published documents Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) self-authored encyclopedia driven by selfprofessed authorities (and Colbert. For example, see: http://seek.ecoinformatics.org Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Real Time Collaboration Video, Audio, and data conferencing Skype (http://skype.com) network-based voice and video calling Polycom (http://www.polycom.com) high-end multipoint videoconferencing, including HD $$$ Office Live (http://www.officelive.com) Microsoft shared personal productivity applications and files $ WebEx (http://webex.com) Internet-based multi-point collaborations, including application sharing $ Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (http://adobe.com) web-based collaboration and document sharing, Flash-based $ Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Tools „Containers‟ for content Management and Productivity Drupal (http://drupal.org) collaborative content management Joomla (http://www.joomla.org) open source content management system for website construction (used by NanoHUB) Moveable Type (http://moveabletype.org) user-based content editing of web sites using blogging tools Programmable Web (http://www.programmableweb.com) APIs that allow users to integrate multiple functions Doodle (http://www.doodle.ch) online polling utility to coordinate meeting times SurveyMonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com) online surveys Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Tag Sharing User-based content characterization and grouping (contra „librarian based‟ metatagging) Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks Digg (http://digg.com) tagging and voting for web content Connotea (http://www.connotea.org) online reference management and sharing for scientists, researchers, and clinicians Citeulike (http://www.citeulike.org) online service that organizes and shares academic papers through tagging Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Cloud Computing Backend computational resources for research communities • Server virtualization permits the ability to create temporary, task specific resources. • Allows personal infrastructures. • Amazon’s elastic compute cloud (EC2) and Google • Amazon’s simple storage service (S3), Google, and now Microsoft’s Skydrive • Can be configured as a data or compute back end to community sites. cf. the Google-IBM Academic (NSF) Cluster Computing Initiative at http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071008_ibm_univ.html Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Cloud Computing… Hadoop + EC2 + S3 = Super alternatives for researchers (& real people too!) I recently discovered and have been inspired by a real-world and non-trivial (in space and in time) application of Hadoop (Open Source implementation of Google's MapReduce) combined with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The project was to convert pre-1922 New York Times articles-as-scanned-TIFF-images into PDFs of the articles: Recipe: 4 TB of data loaded to S3 (TIFF images) + Hadoop (+ Java Advanced Imaging and various glue) + 100 EC2 instances + 24 hours = 11M PDFs, 1.5 TB on S3 Unfortunately, the developer (Derek Gottfrid) did not say how much this cost the NYT. But here is my back-of-theenvelope calculation (using the Amazon S3/EC2 FAQ): EC2: $0.10 per instance-hour x 100 instances x 24hrs S3: $0.15 per GB-Month x 4500 GB x ~1.5/31 months + $0.10 per GB of data transferred in x 4000 GB + $0.13 per GB of data transferred out x 1500 GB Total: = $240 = ~$33 = $400 = $195 = ~$868 Glenn Newton (2/27/2008) @ http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Organizational Hubs Educational analysis and collaboration tools (eg., NanoHUB) • A structured compendium of educational resources, particularly simulations • Online presentations, courses, learning modules, podcasts, animations, teaching materials, etc • Infrastructure is transparent to users Molecular dynamics simulation using the BioMOCA simulation program at NanoHUB.org Barnett: Social Networking • HUBZero software (Purdue) to be released in 2008 built on Joomla, using Rappture for applications March 8, 2008 Grid Computing Environments Web portal interfaces and user-centric services to the Grid • May be moving away from high barrier resourcing and authorization schemes such as Globus although there is still a focus on a limited number of ‘transformative’ or ‘big science’ programs. • Evolution would be to social networking models for access to resources either through community created portals (eg., Joomla) or the use of commodity portals like Facebook. • Back end computational resources may coalesce into a national ‘cloud’ structure or disassociate into multiple, independent ‘clouds’. Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Opportunities and Challenges of Social Networks: How do you create and sustain momentum? Opportunities Challenges Expand personal relationships Connect people to skills or resources Accomplish tasks for a distributed group Must deliver personal value Collective resources may not meet individual needs Participants must accept and use new collaboration models and tools Deliver services to stakeholders Ease of use and low barriers of entry Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Organizational Behaviors of Virtual Organizations William B. Rouse (Health Care as a Complex Adaptive System) • Roles based on Leadership rather than Management • Management through Incentives and Inhibitions rather than Command and Control • Measurement by Outcomes rather than Activities • Focus on Agility rather than Efficiency • Relationships based on Personal Commitment rather than Contracts • Organization structure is non-heirarchical • The design is based on self-organization Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 AToL Social Networking Goals? I still have not found the details of the first page after 1 hour rummaging through your web site. It needs to be simplified before it will be widely used. I am a retired researcher who has time to search but even I had to give up because of difficulties. I could have added to your data base if I could have found out how to do it. A. A. Berryman Comment on “First chapter of book of life goes live”, Nature.com 26 Feb, 2008 Goals of AToL: Digital Library of Biodiversity Information Grant (Maddison, PI) • • Improve core scientific content of the ToL collection Implement new technical features focusing on needs of users from the education and research communities. Initiate collection of content specifically aimed at K-16 learners • • Develop and implement robust policies pertaining to the administrative structure of the ToL Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Broader AToL Collaborative Goals? • Share Sequences ‘hot off the sequencers’ data (note impact of high throughput sequencers and data management needs) • Bridge gaps for AToL projects that do not have Informatics components • Communications challenges: data sharing, day-to-day communications, sharing among different projects • Information Repositories • Interoperability: standards, workflows, and architectures • Extending results and outcomes to greater science and educational communities Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Broader Impact Goals • Transformative science (lead to new discoveries) • Democratization of science (lower barriers of entry) • Build for the next generation of scientists • Expand roles as scientific authorities and authentic science Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008 Making this breakout productive What are the goals of and tools needed by AToL? Activity: Map significant activities and organizational processes of the AToL community onto existing offerings (eg., a requirements traceability matrix) Goal: To come out with workshop or other proposals to advance AToL collaboration Thanks to the following people for help with this presentation: •Reed Beaman, Florida Museum of Natural History •Geoffrey Fox, Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University •Rick McMullin, Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University •Mark Notess, Digital Library Program, Indiana University •Marlon Pierce, Pervasive Technology Labs, Indiana University Barnett: Social Networking March 8, 2008