12 December 2017: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro and Rafael Garrido Haba SKA-Link project: reproducible science and new metrics in the era of mega-science infrastructures Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build a radio-interferometer aiming to answer fundamental questions in astrophysics, fundamental physics, and astrobiology. Once complete, it will be the largest scientific infrastructure on Earth, with antennas spread across several thousand of kilometres on two continents (Africa and Australia). SKA will be the greatest public data research project (several orders of magnitude larger than the second phase of the LHC), and it is recognised as one of the “Big Data” challenges for the next decade. Extracting scientific knowledge from such a volume of data is an impossible task without changing our current research practices. In this talk I will present the "SKA-Link: combining knowledge to pioneer Big-Data solutions for SKA Data Centres" project. SKA-Link has the ambition to contribute to SKA becoming an exemplar, not only in science and technology, but also in Scientific Methodology. This collaboration includes experts in e-Science from the School of Informatics (UEDIN). A general framework of Best Practices is in preparation, to be incorporated into the design of the SKA Regional Centres. The underpinning idea is that to achieve Open Reproducible Methods it is required to empower scientists with both tools and appropriate revised Metrics of research quality. Bio: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro is radio-astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Granada) and early in her career she became motivated by enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration, increasing accessibility to data through the Virtual Observatory and promoting the reproducibility of scientific methods. She is expert on the study of the effect of the environment in galaxy evolution, leading the international collaboration AMIGA (Analysis of interstellar Medium in Isolated Galaxies (http://amiga.iaa.es). She coordinates the scientific and technological participation of Spain in the SKA, and was recently invited to co-chair the SKA HI Science Working Group and to join the SKA Regional Centre Coordination Group as an External Advisor. She is the PI of SKA-Link project, funded by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Dec 12 2017 14.00 - 15.00 12 December 2017: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro and Rafael Garrido Haba SKA-Link project: reproducible science and new metrics in the era of mega-science infrastructures
12 December 2017: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro and Rafael Garrido Haba SKA-Link project: reproducible science and new metrics in the era of mega-science infrastructures Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build a radio-interferometer aiming to answer fundamental questions in astrophysics, fundamental physics, and astrobiology. Once complete, it will be the largest scientific infrastructure on Earth, with antennas spread across several thousand of kilometres on two continents (Africa and Australia). SKA will be the greatest public data research project (several orders of magnitude larger than the second phase of the LHC), and it is recognised as one of the “Big Data” challenges for the next decade. Extracting scientific knowledge from such a volume of data is an impossible task without changing our current research practices. In this talk I will present the "SKA-Link: combining knowledge to pioneer Big-Data solutions for SKA Data Centres" project. SKA-Link has the ambition to contribute to SKA becoming an exemplar, not only in science and technology, but also in Scientific Methodology. This collaboration includes experts in e-Science from the School of Informatics (UEDIN). A general framework of Best Practices is in preparation, to be incorporated into the design of the SKA Regional Centres. The underpinning idea is that to achieve Open Reproducible Methods it is required to empower scientists with both tools and appropriate revised Metrics of research quality. Bio: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro is radio-astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Granada) and early in her career she became motivated by enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration, increasing accessibility to data through the Virtual Observatory and promoting the reproducibility of scientific methods. She is expert on the study of the effect of the environment in galaxy evolution, leading the international collaboration AMIGA (Analysis of interstellar Medium in Isolated Galaxies (http://amiga.iaa.es). She coordinates the scientific and technological participation of Spain in the SKA, and was recently invited to co-chair the SKA HI Science Working Group and to join the SKA Regional Centre Coordination Group as an External Advisor. She is the PI of SKA-Link project, funded by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Dec 12 2017 14.00 - 15.00 12 December 2017: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro and Rafael Garrido Haba SKA-Link project: reproducible science and new metrics in the era of mega-science infrastructures
Dec 12 2017 14.00 - 15.00 12 December 2017: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro and Rafael Garrido Haba SKA-Link project: reproducible science and new metrics in the era of mega-science infrastructures
