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Monday, 16 September 2002
0800 – 0830 Continental Breakfast
0830 – 1015 Opening Session
View from NCRR: Michael Marron and other NCRR Staff (15 Minutes)
Introductions by Participants (30 Minutes)
Experiences with Collaboratories: Tom Finholt (30 Minutes)
Overview of Meeting: Peter Arzberger and Tom Finholt (15 Minutes)
Discussion (15 Minutes)
1015 – 1030 Break
1030 – 1130 Collaboratory Experiences, Part 1
The objective of these talks is to present vignettes of how the collaboratory enabled science that would not have happened otherwise, indicate where technology was not available that inhibited development, and suggest where collaboratories focused around data flow and resources would enhance science.
Experiences at PNL: James Myers (20 Minutes)
Experiences in a Clinical Setting: Steven Wolinsky (20 Minutes)
Q&A (20 Minutes)
1130 – 1245 Lunch
1245 – 1345 Collaboratory Experiences, Part 2: NCRR Collaboratories
The objective of this panel discussion is to review, on a case-by-case basis (no more than 10 minutes / 3 slides per project), the focus, the specific aims, and the results of NCRR supported collaboratories. After the presentations the discussion will address problems encountered, what collaboratories would do differently, and the evaluation criteria used by the projects.
1345 – 1615 Policy and Social Implications
Data sharing at NIH: what should be considered within the collaboratory: Wendy Baldwin (20 Minutes)
Evaluation: Gila Budescu (20 Minutes)
Social Informatics: Geoffrey Bowker (20 Minutes)
Q&A 30 min
1615 – 1630 Break
1630-1745 Key Data Projects:
The objective of this group of presentations is to discuss type of activities around data, and outline how collaboratory technologies could enhance these facilities and enhance the science conducts using these facilities.
Protein Data Bank: John Westbrook (20 Minutes)
SLAC: Peter Kuhn (20 Minutes)
Biomedical Informatics Research Network: Mark Ellisman (20 Minutes)
Q&A 15 min
1745 – 1800 Wrap-up, Overview of Day 2: Peter Arzberger and Thomas Finholt
1800 DINNER
Tuesday, 17 September 2002
0800 – 0830 Continental Breakfast
0830 – 1000 Technical Trends: Part 1
Over the next five years, what are the opportunities and limitations? What does the future hold, relative to collaborations around data resources and flows?
Cyberinfrastructure/Digital Library: Dan Atkins (20 Minutes – phone)
Grid: Computing and Data: Terry Disz (20 Minutes)
Grid: Path between grid and web services: Ian Foster (20 Minutes – vtc)
Data: Information Integration Technologies: Chaitan Baru (20 Minutes)
Q&A (10 Minutes)
1000 – 1015 BREAK
1015 – 1150 Technical Trends: Part 2
The Internet2 Commons H.323 Video Conferencing Service –
What it is and How to Use it: Bob Dixon (20 Minutes – vtc (need to move presentation to Monday afternoon)
Networking: Rick McMullen (20 Minutes)
Collaborative Tools: Jonathan Grudin (20 Minutes)
Semantic Web: James Hendler (20 Minutes)
Q&A: (15 Minutes)
1200 – 1300 LUNCH
1300 – 1330 Overview and Instructions for Breakout sessions
Envisioned are three parallel sessions, to address the following issues:
(1) What are the opportunities for using a collaboratory approach to deal with the problems associated with data in the biomedical community? What could such research catalyze?
(2) What could the biomedical community expect from another round of collaboratory investment by NCRR?(the time frame is 5 years)
(3) What should the goals of a collaboratory program be? How should a collaboratory program be evaluated? Potential evaluation metrics could include
(a) A measure of how small labs participate with larger labs in data sharing.
(b) A discussion of how to measure/ensure the availability of the products of a collaboratory program.
(c) Methods to ensure that a database of a certain size, with a projected growth rate is available to the community. What funding is available for such database maintenance programs?
Each group will be asked to present its findings the following day in power point or equivalent format.
1330 – 1630 Working groups
1630 – 1700 Preliminary Reports from Working Groups (problems, barriers, issues)
DINNER
Wednesday, 18 September 2002
0830 – 0900 Continental Breakfast
0900 – 1100 Full Feedback from Breakout Groups (30 minutes each) and discussion
1100 – 1115 BREAK
1115 – 1200 Overall summary of findings
1200 CLOSE of general meeting
1200 – 1700 Writing Group convenes
PARTICIPANTS:
Peter Arzberger, National Biomedical Computation Resource, UCSD
Tom Finholt, School of Information, U Michigan
Dan Atkins, University of Michigan (phone)
Wendy Baldwin, Office of the Director, NIH
Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
Geoffrey Bowker, Department of Communications, UCSD
Gila Budescu, Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, University of Illinois
David Deerfield, High Performance Computing for Biomedical Research, PSC
Terry Disz, Argonne National Lab
Bob Dixon, Ohio State University (16, 18 September – vtc)
Mark Ellisman, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UCSD
Tom Ferrin, Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, UCSF
Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab and U. Chicago (vtc)
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft
Ted Hanss, Internet 2 (vtc)
James Hender, University of Maryland (17, 18 September)
Peter Kuhn, SLAC, Stanford
Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Indiana University
Heather Miller, Office of the Director, NIH
James Myers, PNL
Steve Peltier, University of California San Diego (18 September)
Ralph Roskies, High Performance Computing for Biomedical Research, PSC (17, 18 September)
Dianne Sonnenwald, Interactive Graphics for Molecular Studies and Microscopy, UNC
John Westbrook, PDB, Rutgers
Steven Wolinsky, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University