VO Breakout
VO
• Need to work on lowering barrier to entry
– Authentication
• Perception
– E-science is heavy weight, e.g. Access Grid
– Careful about first contact, Marketing
• Users
– Access Grid is the first exposure
– Is e-science just data & compute?
– Does e-science have to big?
E-*
• E-commerce forgot to make money
• E-Scientists forgot to do science
• E-infrastructure needs to deliver capability
Is e-sc
VOs
• What is a virtual organisation?
– Categorisation of VOs
• Starting point from GOLD.
• European VO Roadmap – VOMap
– VO infrastructure
• Want to enable distributed science
– Need integrated tools (e.g. social networking,
access grid, shared white boards)
– Analysis of collaborative space
• Comparison Athens vs. VOMS
– Me
• Gateway issues
• Low barrier to entry (IMPORTANT)
– e.g. Access Grid, Mega-meeting, Skype
Technology
• Needs to be federating
• User requirements
– Want to work together
• Needs to be open
– Toolbox
• Collaborative tools for business
– Ne
Tools
• Collaborating
VO Breakout
Report
• Need a clear definition of a VO
– See VOmap and other activity in Europe
• VOs do need to be more dynamic
– Project management tools should work within the context of the
VO
• Tools are definitely needed
– Have to be easy, robust, web based, etc.
– End-user perspective & integration with local environments
– Social tools
• Final VO paragraph revise?
– reads as if there is a big problem because of lack of VO
definition
– Tools mustn’t push everyone into a single model of VO
Early Adopters
• Tooling needs to deal with broad needs/use
– Small vs. big
– Service provider driven & social networking
perspectives
– Rapid & dynamic vs. long lived & static
• Need to have enabled gateway services
– Taking the hardness out of it – cf. ATHENS
– e.g. Access Grid, Mega-meeting, Skype, collaborative
technologies
• Integration across heterogeneous technologies
Immediate Targets
• Need to work on lowering authentication barriers to entry
– e.g. Remove certificates, integrated single sign
– JISC – Ann Borda to follow
• Marketing to change perception
– e.g. E-science is heavyweight
– Who’s agenda is this?
– Malcolm Atkinson, Alex Voss
• First contact makes a big impression
– Ensure robustness rather than expand functionality
– e.g. Access Grid
– SKIP
• e-Res. adoption theme to address at its workshops?
– Alex Voss
Medium Target
• User Enrolment and management tools
• Toolkit to enable integration
– With environments, With tools
• Social shaping to look at issues around
• Develop concrete use cases to inform planning
of future work
• Results of JISC e-Inf work on VOs
• Longer term RC funded work – technical and
social