Conveners
Building Real Stuff for Research Communities: Building Real Stuff for Research Communities
- Sarah Jones (GÉANT)
Description
This session will include three presentations on how organisations are building infrastructure and platforms to support research communities. The role of the communities and their needs is a common thread throughout the papers, with emphasis being placed on understanding user requirements, designing engaging and customisable systems, and promoting co-ownership and administration to ensure implementations meet direct researcher needs. The importance of collaboration between service providers and user communities is naturally at the fore. The papers will present a community cloud initiative, a telemedicine platform and infrastructure to enable reuse of social media data.
In an increasingly "smart" healthcare, in addition to the continuous improvement of the quality, safety and appropriateness of healthcare interventions, the use of ICT systems that allow an advanced and engaging use by users becomes essential. The safe and online secure exchanges of clinical-diagnostic data and information; the technical and mandatory regulations concerning devices and all the...
In our presentation we will describe the reference architecture and its key principle, with special reference to automation recipes, present the federated model and its benefits, and propose our view for a European collaboration in this field.
In social sciences and many other domains, news media and social media big data are increasingly used to monitor, analyse and research cultural trends and societal changes in longitudinal studies. For many researchers, access to these type of resources remains a challenge due to technical and legal barriers. This presentation focusses on the challenges researchers face in collecting big...
