Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Part of a collaboration between Adelaide University, Indiana University, James Cook University, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, and the University of Sydney.

Collaborative Remote Access, Web Services and Some Virtual Reality for a

Kappa Goniometer

- a bit of an update

- and maybe some other news

Ewald construction ‘capturing’ the volume of reciprocal space swept out by the

area detector is displayed as the crystal is rotated with a virtual Kappa

goniostat. [RSPACE - a reciprocal-space modelling tool. M. R. HARRIS and M.

FITZGIBBONJ. Appl. Cryst. (1989). 22, 624-627]

Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Tango as a CIMA plugin

1) Get Parcel sent by the Client

2) Helper is retrieved with variables name

3) Read_attribute called on Tango Server, variables read

4) Values converted from Double to String

5) Get response Parcel returned to the client

Tango Server

CIMA IR

TangoPlugin

1

3

2

CIMA Client

3

5

4

Instrument

The story of The story of Data-MINXData-MINX

(well, some of it anyway … )(well, some of it anyway … )

• User friendly (intuitive) services to search, locate, access, move and preserve User friendly (intuitive) services to search, locate, access, move and preserve data (so something better than carrying data home on disks, following an data (so something better than carrying data home on disks, following an experiment at a research facility).experiment at a research facility).

• ‘ ‘Seamless’ connectivity across resources (eg SRB/iRODS).Seamless’ connectivity across resources (eg SRB/iRODS).

• Move data to processing resources (inc. users home institution desktop) or Move data to processing resources (inc. users home institution desktop) or repository services (eg GridFTP).repository services (eg GridFTP).

• Collaborative/shared access to data; dynamic VOs (eg WebDAV). Collaborative/shared access to data; dynamic VOs (eg WebDAV). Collaboration services (eg Plone or SAKAI).Collaboration services (eg Plone or SAKAI).

• Single SIgn On (AAF or an interim provider).Single SIgn On (AAF or an interim provider).

• Interoperability - search across national and international facilities (eg Interoperability - search across national and international facilities (eg OPAL, ISIS and SNS)OPAL, ISIS and SNS)..

• Provide standard ‘interchange’ data format (contribute to development if Provide standard ‘interchange’ data format (contribute to development if need be). Aids processing, curation and software development.need be). Aids processing, curation and software development.

• Harvest as much metadata as possible/sensible, as soon as possible.Harvest as much metadata as possible/sensible, as soon as possible.

• Remote access and workflow services.Remote access and workflow services.

Data-MINX Services Wish List:Data-MINX Services Wish List:

The End; thanks ….

Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Kappa Group WorkshopLorentz Center Leiden April 16-17 2008

Acknowledgements:

Sydney Uni JCU Indiana and SUNY Douglas du Boulay Ian M. Atkinson Rick McMullen Clinton Chee Tristan King Ken Chiu Richard Leow Nigel G.D. SimRomain Quilici Mathew Wyatt

Australian Research Council: e-Research Seed Funding Programme and the Research Networks Programme (MMSN: Molecular and MaterialsStructure Network).

Department of Education Science and Training: Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility, and Annotation e-Research Technologies (DART) project

GrangeNet: The Integration of Scientific Instruments into the Grid