IT Futures Conference 2009
Drowning in data or just waving? -- Supporting new research and collaborations at Edinburgh
The annual conference took place on Tuesday 15th December 2009 in the Informatics Forum.
The IT Futures Group would like to thank all presenters and participants.
The video recording of the conference will be available soon in this space.
Programme :
| 9.00 | Registration: coffee/tea available |
| 9.30 | Welcome: Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management |
| Collaboration and research at edinburgh | |
| 9.40 | Meeting Support Technologies - Jean Carletta - (video) |
| Service confusion and user ambivalence: the slow progress of software and services for collaboration - James Stewart - (video) | |
| Putting the Place into Locative Media - Chris Speed - (video) | |
| Using the Semantic Web - Ewan Klein - (video) | |
| 11.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| Supporting collaboration and research at Edinburgh | |
| 11.30 | What next for research data at the University of Edinburgh? - Sheila Cannell - (video) |
| Collaboration to Curation: The High Rise Project meets Edinburgh DataShare - Eduardo Serafin & Stuart McDonald- (video) | |
| Research publications service - Simon Bains (video) | |
| Panel Session - Collaborating and sharing at Edinburgh - Sheila Cannell, David Dewhurst, Malcolm Atkinson, Mike Fourman James Stewart | |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| What next for e-research at Edinburgh? | |
| 14.00 | Data intensive research - Malcolm Atkinson (video) |
| Development of e-research at Edinburgh - Mike Fourman (video) | |
| 15.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| Some new technologies | |
| 15.30 | Cloud computing - Mark Parsons (video) |
| Google Wave: Just a ripple or a tsunami for science? - Cameron Neylon (video) | |
| Introducing A.nnotate - Iain Woodhouse | |
| 16.30 | Finish |