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What is e-Social Science e-Science is large scale science carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. e-Social Science is the application of e- Science concepts to social science problem domains. This uses the Internet, software tools and structured information for collaborative work.
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OGC/OGF usage in UK e-Social ScienceOGF 21, Seattle, USA Paul Townend
School of Computing, University of Leeds
Introduction
What is e-Social Science? National Centre for e-Social Science Use of geospatial data Why this is important for e-Social Science MoSeS Why standards? Use of OGC standards Use of Grid standards OGC/OGF standards from an e-Social Science perspective
What is e-Social Science
e-Science is large scale science carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet.
e-Social Science is the application of e-Science concepts to social science problem domains. This uses the Internet, software tools and structured information for collaborative work.
National Centre for e-Social Science
The UK National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) was founded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
It aims to investigate how Grid technology developed under the UK e-Science programme can benefit the social sciences.
The centre consists of a coordinating Hub (Uni of Manchester), seven Research Nodes, and twelve Small Grant projects.
Use of geospatial data
Examples in NCeSS?
Geospatial data in e-Social Science
Why it is important
Example node: MoSeS
MoSeS (Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science) is a research node of NCeSS.
MoSeS provides a suite of modeling and simulation tools grounded in a series of well-defined policy scenarios.
Aims of MoSeS (1)
MOSES has four high-level aims.
1) To create a flagship modelling and simulation node, in which the capabilities of Grid Computing are mobilised to develop tools whose power and flexibility surpasses existing and previous research outputs.
2) To demonstrate the applicability of grid-enabled modelling and simulation tools within a variety of substantive research and policy environments.
Aims of MoSeS (2)
MOSES has four high-level aims.
3) To provide a generic framework through which grid-enabled modelling and simulation might be exploited within any problem domain.
4) To encourage the creation of a community of social scientists and policy users with a shared interest in modelling and simulation for e-social science problems.
Aims of MoSeS (3)
There are an abundance of simulation games relating to people, cities and societies (past, present and future).
MoSeS poses the question of what would be the impact of transferring these simulations into a real world environment.
Supposing that computational power and data storage were not an issue, what would you build?
MOSES vision
MOSES architecture
Storage Resource Broker Cluster
SR
B authentication and authorisation
User
JSR-168 Compliant Portlet Container
Portlet container authentication and authorisation
MOSES Selection portlet
MOSES Analysis portlet
MOSES Charting portlet
MOSES Archiving portlet
MOSES Mapping portlet
MOSES archive store
MOSES forecasting store
MOSES map data store
BeowulfCluster
MOSES forecasting module
MOSES demographic module
CASWeb Data Resources
Internet
Screenshots
Screenshots
Screenshots
Why standards?
Preaching to the choir? I think a few paragraphs will do. Will add them soon.
Use of OGC standards
MoSeS: WPS? GeolinkingGeo-VUE:Other UK projects:
Use of Grid standards
MOSES is hard... SRB? Could talk about future WS-RF or similar for heavy computation
Other NCeSS projects?
OGC / OGF standards
From an e-social science perspective, why do OGC and OGF need to work together...
Examples of things that need to be done?
