The CREW system - PowerPoint Web2.0 -

1. The CREW system- PowerPoint Web2.0 - June 2009 Also Some Future Developments

2. Meik Poschen, Michael Daw, Rob Procter, Martin Turner, Terry Hanley, Roger Slack, Andy Hall, Mike Jones, Rebecca Jones, Anja Le Blanc, Emma Place, Nikki Rogers, Andrew Rowley, Tobias Schiebeck, Damian Steer, Caroline Williams Many Co-Is were User Groups The CREW Project Development of a Virtual Research Environment to support Collaborative Research Events

3. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Outline • What is CREW? • Project, Context & Technical System • Practice and User Engagement • Approach, User Groups, Activities • System Demo • Future Release and Users

4. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net The CREW Team • CREW: one of four funded projects under the JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) phase 2 Programme • 2 year project: ended March 2009 • Overall aim: “Support the research process” • Focus strongly on user engagement

5. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Project Aim “The aim of CREW is to develop and deploy user-centred software to support research resources (including audio-visual recordings) that arise from collaborative research events such as conferences, workshops and seminars to be discoverable in context.”

6. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Functionalities of the System CREW provides an environment and support material, with four main features: • Recording: Users can record events audio-visually, incorporating presentation slides and similar material, building on Memetic and AG technology. • Replaying of the recorded events and choosing the interface layout. • Annotating and editing: CREW supports the addition of tags during recordings, e.g. to annotate slides or link to related blog discussions. • Semantic Searching: The search and browse application will connect and cross-link all the relevant content and metadata in the VRE portal, presenting detailed information.

7. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net CREW Architecture

8. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Unique selling point CREW’s unique selling point is to be able to record events, have all gathered data fully searchable, be it annotated audio-visual content or other internal or external resources like papers, conference information and researchers’ profiles etc., which are harvested and cross-linked, integrated in a web environment.

9. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Case Study • Monthly ACM SIGGRAPH Manchester Professional Chapter seminars - end 2007 onwards (Scientific Visualization Groups) 50 Research Events over three years: from seminars, to specialist software/hardware roadmaps and tutorials.

10. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Case Study • Monthly ACM SIGGRAPH Manchester Professional Chapter seminars - end 2007 onwards (Scientific Visualization Groups)

11. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net CREW in Action • CREW – if you have an Access Grid node

12. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net CREW in Action • CREW-Kit – Without an Access Grid node

13. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net CREW in Action

14. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Initial Screen – allowing searches and browsing of recorded/annotated events

15. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Selecting an Event – lists all sessions within the event plus event metadata

16. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Selecting a Session – individual recorded parts are listed and described

17. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Selecting a Recording – allows automatic cross-selection and post annotations

18. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Playing a Recording – starts Flash integrated ppt and videos with slide notes …

19. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Playing a Recording – … and automated annotation timelines. All selectable.

20. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Search and Browsing – in this case authors and presenters, over many events. Extra items included Google Mash-ups for location checking.

21. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Live Demo

22. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Software Outcome: Caboto • An RDF-based annotationsystem. • Provides a RESTful
interfacefor submitting
and receiving annotations. • Allows Publicand Privateannotations. • A work in progress! CIP

23. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Caboto in CREW and STARS http://caboto.org

24. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net User Requests – new needs • Security Model – VOs, authentication (e.g. NGS) etc. • IP Performance Rights Issues: Personalisation Permissions • Server “Hardening” – Repository IntegrationInstitutional Repository • Speed – Performance Test:Load Testing and Evaluation • Full Interface – skin – rewrite (c word)

25. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Further Steps • Ongoing cycles of experience (requirements gathering) from current users • Extended supported will continue – best practice; embedding plan • Integration: GoogleCode site • Commercialisation – PowerPoint Web2.0 • Research add-ons: VRE Phase 3 plus IE

26. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Further Steps: Specific • PAG – Access Grid from a Portal – new redevelopment work started May 2009 • ViCoVRE – Video Conversion – needs from e-Dance and CREW for video standards for semantic video storage. • One VRE to Join Them All – time locked data storage areas across VREs/VLEs

27. June 2009 http://www.crew-vre.net/ See Slideshare.net Thank You From the CREW team: http://www.crew-vre.net