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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 654237
Developing Science Gateways and Data Repositories – The Sci-GaIA Training Workshops
Roberto Barbera – University of Catania - Italy ([email protected]) 15 March 2016 – Sci-GaIA Workshop on Promoting Open Science in Africa – Dakar (Senegal)
Outline
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• Introductory concepts, definitions and driving considerations
• The Sci-GaIA Winter School
• The Sci-GaIA Summer School • Summary and conclusions
The Sci-GaIA project objectives (http://www.sci-gaia.eu/about-sci-gaia/project-objectives/)
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The Sci-GaIA Federated Platform for an Open Science Commons in Africa
www.sci-gaia.eu/osp/
The Triangle of Knowledge
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Research & Development
Innovation Education & Training
Building e-Infrastructures is a waste if we don’t “build”, at the same time, their users
Along with e-Infrastructures, t-Infrastructures and training programmes are thus needed as well as Open Education Resources (OER)
t-Infrastructure
Sci-GaIA Educational Modules
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A&A ROC
courses.sci-gaia.eu www.sci-gaia.eu
Catania SG Framework
Other OER’s
To be adopted in university curricula in EU and Africa
Sci-GaIA Online Courses (http://courses.sci-gaia.eu)
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Everybody is welcome to contribute with full
courses and other training & education materials
Sci-GaIA Online Courses: an example (Will be officially open online by end of March)
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Incollabora*onwith
The Sci-GaIA Winter School (http://www.sci-gaia.eu/winter-school)
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The Sci-GaIA Winter School (overview) (http://www.sci-gaia.eu/winter-school)
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• The goal of the Sci-GaIA Winter School is to create the skills to integrate scientific applications in the Africa Grid Science Gateway and/or in or in other domain-specific Science Gateways
• This will allow the creation of an intercontinental pool of experts that can act as “interface” between the end-users of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) supported by the project and the e-Infrastructure services
• The school will be entirely web-based and it will include a combination of pre-recorded lectures and interactive sessions per week where to check the progress of students through their short presentations and the correction of the exercises
• The school will follow a project-driven education approach with teams of students working on the development of scientific applications to be integrated in the Science Gateway(s)
• At the end of the school, a panel of experts will assess the progress made by the various teams of students and the winner and the runner-up application teams (max 2 persons per team) will win a free participation to the Sci-GaIA Final Conference that will be held in Brussels in March/April 2017
The Sci-GaIA Winter School (flyer) (https://oar.sci-gaia.eu/record/87)
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The Sci-GaIA Winter School (requirements and criteria)
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• Required skills • Java programming • Web application development (HTML, Java server pages, XML, Application
Server, servlets) • Basic Unix shell (VPN, SSH, bash scripting) • Basic Database management (e.g., MySQL)
• Selection criteria • Relevance of applicants’ CVs to the topics of the Winter School • Composition and geographic distribution of the applicants’ team • Presence of a proposed scientific application. If a scientific application is
proposed, additional criteria will be: • Relevance of the proposed scientific application, in terms of its impact
and size of the user base • Multi-/inter-disciplinarity of the proposed scientific application • Societal challenges addressed by the proposed scientific application • Use of modern paradigms in the proposed scientific application (e.g.,
Distributed Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, Open Data, etc.) • Readiness status of the proposed scientific application
The Sci-GaIA Winter School (http://www.sci-gaia.eu/winter-school)
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• The goal of the Sci-GaIA Winter School is to create the skills to integrate scientific applications in the Africa Grid Science Gateway and/or in or in other domain-specific Science Gateways
• This will allow the creation of an intercontinental pool of experts that can act as “interface” between the end-users of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) supported by the project and the e-Infrastructure services
• The school will be entirely web-based and it will include a combination of pre-recorded lectures and interactive sessions per week where to check the progress of students through their short presentations and the correction of the exercises. Both the inaugural lecture and the final day’s presentations will also be held as interactive webinars
• The school will follow a project-driven education approach with teams of students working on the development of scientific applications to be integrated in the Science Gateway(s)
• At the end of the school, a panel of experts will assess the progress made by the various teams of students and the winner and the runner-up application teams (max 2 persons per team) will win a free participation to the Sci-GaIA Final Conference that will be held in Brussels in March/April 2017
The Sci-GaIA Winter School (applications proposed)
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Team Members Country Applica:on Societalchallenge Notes
1 4 Senegal PALD-CSE (1)Foodsecurity,sustainableagricultureandforestry(2)Climateac*on,environment
Crea*onofanOpernAccessRepositoryfortheCentredeSuiviEcologique(CSE)
2 1 Tanzania WEKA
(1)Health,demographicchangeandwellbeing(2)Foodsecurity,sustainableagricultureandforestry,marineandmari*meandinlandwaterresearch,andtheBio-economy(3)Smart,greenandintegratedtransport(4)Climateac*on,environment,resourceefficiencyandrawmaterials(5)Europeinachangingworld-inclusive,innova*veandreflec*vesocie*es(6)Securesocie*es-protec*ngfreedomandsecurityofEuropeanditsci*zens
WaikatoEnvironmentforKnowledgeAnalysis(WEKA)isapopularsuiteofmachinelearningsoVware
3 4 Nigeria AP-SGW Health,demographicchangeandwellbeing
DesignanddevelopaprototypeAfricanPhytomedicineScienceGatewaytopromotecollabora*on,communi*esofprac*cefocusingonPhytomedicineforimprovinghealthcareinAfrica
4 4 Tanzania COPRA Diseases,Medicine,Knowledgeandskillsforcommunicable/non-communicablediseases
COPRAisanini*a*veaimedatensuringpeoplelivinginruralandremotepartsofthecountrytohaveaccesstoqualitycarethroughusageofICTtoolsandapplica*on.
5 1 Morocco WUF (1)Smart,greenandintegratedtransport(2)Secure,CleanandEfficientEnergy
WeatherofUrbanTraffic(WUF)willaimtheop*miza*onofroadtrafficinurbanareas.Throughpriorsta*s*canalyseofdifferentdatarelatedtotrafficflows,thisapplica*onwillofferusersanactualisedforecastoftrafficflows.Alsoupda*ngthereal-*meforecastswillenableuserstoop*mizetheirtripsandthusavoidtrafficjams.Ul*matelythisapplica*onwillbeofbenefitbothtotheop*miza*onoffuelconsump*onandtrafficflow.
The Sci-GaIA Winter School (applications to be assigned)
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Team Members Country6 1 Tanzania 7 1 Central African Republic 8 1 Democratic Republic of Congo 9 1 Uganda
10 4 Nigeria
11 1 Malawi
If you’d like to propose applications relevant for your
Communities of Practice to be assigned at the school
contact us at [email protected]
by the 22nd of March
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Installing and configuring Open Access Repositories (1/2) (https://oar.sci-gaia.eu/record/20 - 11623/sci-gaia:1439992092.82)
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Installing and configuring Open Access Repositories (2/2) (Step by step documentation: http://oar-sci-gaia.readthedocs.org)
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Developing applications for Science Gateways (1/2) (http://sgw.africa-grid.org - http://www.sci-gaia.eu/applications)
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Developing applications for Science Gateways (2/2) (http://csgf.readthedocs.org)
The Sci-GaIA Summer School (http://www.sci-gaia.eu/summer-school → will be online soon)
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• Same format of the Winter School but … face to face in the same physical environment for 2 weeks
• Grants will be provided to selected applicants
• Provisional time: July 2016
• Bookmark and stay tuned to • www.sci-gaia.eu/summer-school
Summary and conclusions
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• Train and educate future generations of “open” scientists is of utmost importance
• The Sci-GaIA consortium is very much committed to create e-Infrastructure and Open Science related materials and release them as Open Educational Resources
• The Winter School and the Summer School will be important milestones in this path
by the 22nd of March
• Some last-minute places for the Winter School are available for the participants to this workshop
• Go to www.sci-gaia.eu/winter-school and fill the application form
