Just a reminder of Thursday's IIC Colloquium.... ************* Data Is the Network: Link or Die November 19, 12 noon (sandwiches served at 11:45) Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Joe Futrelle Cyberenvironments and Technologies, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Abstract In a world now dominated by social networking and wireless communication, most scientific information remains stubbornly locked up in specialized databases, institutional repositories and domain- specific applications. New strategies are needed to free all of this information from the rigid containers, frameworks and work processes in which it is born and increasingly dies. In particular, software engineering must be rethought so that interoperability, openness, and extensibility are designed into data structures. Can data be organized as an active, evolving, open network of heterogeneous concerns and affordances, free of the control of any single software agent or framework? Joe Futrelle will describe promising new opportunities making data radically portable and worthy of long-term preservation and access, drawing on several projects in the "semantic grid," e- science, and digital preservation communities. Bio Joe Futrelle has been working for over a decade at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to increase access to and improve the quality of shared collections of scientific and cultural information through the application of digital library and semantic web technologies and techniques. Futrelle's software tools for distributed search, metadata harvesting, and semantic content management have been used in a variety of scientific and cultural domains including astronomy, biology, medicine, education, seismology, earthquake engineering, research administration, music, history, and environmental hydrology. Futrelle's research focuses on building semantic data models and associated software that can harness network effects in order to create living, evolving knowledge spaces capable of linking and merging information across disicplinary, institutional, temporal, and geographic boundaries. These emerging knowledge spaces can support the systems-scale interdisciplinary science required to meet some of the greatest challenges of our time, as well as ensuring that the valuable fruits of such research can be preserved and used indefinitely in an era of rapid technological obsolescence. --------------- Mark your calendar for next week's SciGPU Seminar: Nov. 23, 12 noon: Mark Silberstein, Technion (Maxwell Dworkin 319) And the next IIC colloquium: Dec. 2, 4:00 pm: Griffin Weber, Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Medical School (Maxwell Dworkin G115) For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium