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WP6 - Training. PlanetData. Objectives. T raining students, researchers, and professionals by: Providing relevant training materials such as presentations, tutorials or video blogs ,
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WP6 - Training PlanetData
Objectives • Training students, researchers, and professionals by: • Providing relevant trainingmaterials such as presentations, tutorials or video blogs, • Organising training events to share knowledge from PlanetData to a wider audience and new communities such as HCI, large-scale data visualization, statistics, • Career development by introducing mentors and young reserachers
Structure • Task 6.1 – Training materials and open training infrastructure (Leader: STI2) (M1 – M48) • Task 6.2 – Training events (Leader: IJS) (M1 – M48) • Task 6.3 – Mentoring and career development program (Leader: KIT) (M1 – M48) • D6.1 Training curriculum (M6) UIBK • D6.2 Open training infrastructure (M6) STI2 • D8.x – Regular management reports (M12, M24, M36, M48) JSI
Work done • D6.1 Training curriculum • D6.2 Open training infrastructure • Infrastructure has been set for knowledge sharing community • Existing materials from videolectures.net relevant for PlanetData has been selected • Several events and meeting have been organised
Training events and meetings (detailed) • ESWC 2011 summer school and a tutorial at the ESWC 2011 conference on Linked Services. • 12-14 Apr. 2011, DIR Technology Workshop 3, Amsterdam, the Netherlands • 06-08 Jun. 2011, DIR Final Outreach Workshop, Edinburgh, UK • 08-10 Jun. 2011, XLDB-Europe 2011, Edinburgh, UK • 12 Jun. 2011, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM2011), Athens, Greece • 13 Jun. 2011, 4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest2011), Athens, Greece • 13 Jun. 2011, 7th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN 2011), Athens, Greece • 12-16 Jun. 2011, ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Athens, Greece • 27-29 Jun. 2011, LOFAR TKP Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Work in progress • Transition from REASE to PlanetData knowledge sharing community on videolectures.net • Preparation of the PlanetData video scientific journal • Summer school in collaboration with COIN • Training content development • Following the developed curriculum
PlanetData and COIN • 2nd COIN summer school • Tentative title: Collaboration and interoperability in large scale inormation environments • Topics: Collaboration and interoperability, Technologies and solutions for large scale data, eerging business models in networked enterprises, Industry case studies,... • Venue: Warsaw • October 2011 • Local organiser: Chamber of Commerce • PlanetData inolvement possibiliy (to be decided) • Coorganiser of thye summer school • Organising a two day track • Providing some talks
Video scientific journal • step-by-step process • (1) starting with publishing the short abstract lectures • 1st issue planned for begining of 2012, • Should be attached to a conference or existing journal • (2) publish tutorials attached to the scientific publication, • 1st issue planned for the end of 2012, • Should be attached to a conference or existing journal • (3) publish only tutorials. • Publication model developed • To be decided: • Development of the programme committee • Deciding about (1) – event • Providing exact plan
Other planed activities • Training content preparation • Training events plan for 2012
D6.1 Training curriculum • 1Introduction • 1.1Purpose • 1.2Curriculum target / level of knowledge of the target • 1.2.1Professionals • 1.2.2Graduates • 1.3Prerequisite qualifications • 1.4Delivery Methods • 1.4.1Self-trained • 1.4.2On-site training • 2Structure • 2.1Semantic Technology (STI) • 2.2Databases technology (CWI) • 2.3Linked Data (FUB) • 2.4Data Streams (UPM) • 3Conclusion • References
D6.2 Open training infrastructure • 1 Introduction • 1.1 Purpose • 1.2 The aim of PlanetDataopen training infrastructure • 2 PlanetData open training infrastructure requirements • 2.1 Functions and properties of PlanetDataopen training infrastructure • 2.2 Curriculum and target public • 2.3 Training materials, delivery methods and channels • 2.4 Basic building blocks • 2.4.1 Videolectures.net and knowledge sharing communities • 2.4.2 Rease repository • 2.4.3 Semsphere LMS • 3 PlanetData open training infrastructure design • 3.1 Selected integration model • 3.2 Functions and services • 3.3 Basic Structure • 3.3 Integration protocols • 3.4 Current status of the training portal • 4 Validation methods and development plan • 5 Conclusion • References
Training events plan • Prepared for each year in advance: First plan scheduled for M12 • Yearly summer schools, • Training Milestones • Tutorials and Hands-on workshops, • Presented at major conferences and training events • Web-casts • Continuous activity on videolectures • PlanetData events • Sponsored events • Joint events with related initiatives • Pascal2 NoE • T4Me NoE • Activities within K4A
Scientific Journal • First successful attempt at videolectures.NET: • Domain: Machine learning • Options: • Abstracts to papers • Lectures to papers • Pure lectures • More than 50 submissions
Scientific Journal status • Model established and tested • Infrastructure established and tested • High interest • Possibilities of interlinking with traditional journals run by Academic publishers • Plan for Y4 in Pascal2 in progress
K4A and West Africa activities • MoU with Kofi Annan center of excellence on building AI RTD lab (http://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/) • Levels of activities: • Training events • Student/professors exchange • Joint challenges • Joint RTD projects
K4A and West Africa activities • Status • Three events organised • 2day Workshop in Ghana (Pascal2) • Pascal Bootcamp in France (Pascal2) • AI Bootcamp in Ghana (ACTIVE and Pascal2) • Student exchange in progress • Plan for next activities in preparation (involving industries) • High interest and high impact • Governmental level • Professors and PhD students • Strong OS community • Many research challenges with real data
Decisions • Single entry point or multiple entry points? • Videolectures.NET • REASE • Semsphere • Summer schools plan? • 2 or 3 summer schools • Ghana and West Africa activities? • What activity, when,... • Training events recording budget?
Functional LC - update CDN enabling platform Recommendation functionality Searching and browsing Viewing features Back-office functionalities Design Optimisation
Matterhorn • http://www.opencastproject.org/project/matterhorn
K4A founders • Europe: • University College London • Jozef Stefan Institute • University of Southampton • University of Nantes • ETH Zurich • CERN • US: • Berkeley + Opencast community (+300 Universities) • MIT + OCW consortium (+180 Universities) • Asia • Korea University + Network of South Korean Universities • Africa • Voices of Africa, Kenya + East Africa Universities • Kofi Annan Center for ICT and Development, Ghana + West Africa Universities