HUBbub 2013, Day 1 Morning Sessions

Series | 12 Sep 2013

HUBbub is the annual User Conference for researchers, educators, and IT professionals engaged in building and using cyberinfrastructure. Learn about the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Hear from invited...

A HUBzero Extension for Automated Tagging

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Jim Mullen

Tagging pages on a hub can help users find relevant content, but it also can require a lot of effort if done manually. We developed an extension for HUBzero that supports the automated tagging of content using the NCBO (National Center for Biomedical Ontology) Annotator; and we have installed...

Collaboration and Contributions

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Emily Kayser

This presentation will describe:- What hub groups are, and how to find or create them- How to invite and manage users in a group- Group manager functions- Group features that help facilitate group collaboration, including new calendar features- What resources are, and how they are contributed-...

Collections

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

This presentation will demo the HUBzero Collections component. Collections was designed as a “Pinterest” for research. Researchers and collaborators can now quickly add (or pin) a resource, wiki page, link, or almost any other page of the hub to their collection set. We will talk about creating a...

Collections–Pinterest for Hubs. The STEMEdhub.org use of Collections

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

Unlike some hubs that are designed around one central concept, STEMEdhub.org was created under the general concept of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education. STEMEdhub.org is designed as a set of smaller hubs set up as groups. With STEMEdhub.org based around the concept of...

Configuring and Customizing

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

Congratulations! Your HUBzero software is installed. Now what? Each new hub requires some configuration and customization based on your needs. We'll talk about content configuration (article pages), home page configuration (modules, news/announcements, banner), member registration customization...

Courses Component

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Emily Kayser

This presentation will demo the HUBzero Courses component. It will describe features and functionality of this new component, including:- Course Builder – Uploading content (homework, lecture videos) and creating exams- Creating discussion posts- The differences between the Instructor and Student...

Creating a Bibliography and Taxonomy within HUBzero: a HABRI Central Case Study

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Gretchen Stephens, Jane Yatcilla

In a landmark collaboration between the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, the Purdue University Libraries, the Purdue University Press with funding from the HABRI (Human Animal Bond Research Initiative) Foundation, HABRI Central is being developed on the HUBzero platform to...

Cyberinfrastructure for the Materials Genome Initiative

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Meredith Drosback

In June 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a multi-agency federal initiative designed to accelerate the discovery, manufacture, and deployment of advanced materials. The current materials R&D paradigm can take 20 years or more to move a new material from...

Databases at the Hub: Now you can create them yourself!

Seminars | 18 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin, Sudheera R. Fernando, Sumudinie Fernando, Ruchith Fernando, Ruwan J Egoda Gamage

There are more than thirty medical and scientific databases established across ten Hubs. All databases were created using our Hub-based “data technology” components, with interesting new features and capabilities added to the technology for each new project. We have customized these databases for...

Developing hub tools that submit HPC jobs

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell

The HUBzero platform provides much support for tool development in addition to Rappture. Based on my experiences with writing the SubmiR tool for the DiaGrid.org hub, this presentation will focus on coding an application that imports data, submits an HPC job, and updates the user with job status....

DiaGrid + HUBzero: Power to the People

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Rob Campbell, Kevin chen, Steven Clark, Brian Raub, Christopher Thompson

DiaGrid is a distributed computing resource based on a federated HTCondor pool with more than 50,000 processor cores today and has delivered nearly 100 million computational jobs to date. A new HUBzero-based web front end to DiaGrid, diagrid.org (aka DiaGrid HUB), is now available for researchers...

DMPTool: Expert Resources and Support for Data Management Planning

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Tao Zhang

A growing number of US federal funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) as part of new research grant proposals. One of the challenges facing institutions is providing a support structure for potential researcher knowledge gaps in the process. The DMPTool is a free, open source tool...

Enabling computational modeling and geospatial data analysis through HUBzero

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Water-HUB is developed as a collaborative platform for hydrology researchers, educators and policy makers. Currently, a commonly used hydrologic model called Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is used to link hydrologists through a SWATShare interface on Water-HUB. SWATShare enables any...

Expedition Antioquia, a hub to promote richness and diversity for equity in Antioquia

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Juan Guillermo Lalinde, Juan Pineda, Leidy Lorena Alzate-Vargas (presenter)

Antioquia is one of Colombian departments (states) characterized by its richness, its diversity and, unfortunately, its inequity. Expedition Antioquia, is a research program involving more than 10 universities in the region, with the objective of become a hub for information about Antioquia and...

GenomeHubs–Life Science Informatics & HPC

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Chris Dagdigian

Bioinformaticist-gone-bad Chris Dagdigian has spent the last 15 years as a high performance research IT specialist focusing on building, fixing, growing and optimizing IT systems designed to support & accelerate life science research. As a consultant, Chris gets to see how different organizations...

Getting Started with HUBzero/VM Setup

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

If you have ever wanted to have your own copy of HUBzero, we will demo how to setup our open source VM. This talk will be mostly concerned with the technical setup that will include VMware installation and configuration, linux ethernet configuration, URL setup and new admin user creation.

HUB Application for Managing Experimental Knowledge

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Girish S Joglekar, Arun Giridhar, Michael McLennan, George A Howlett, Rex Reklaitis

Experimentation is an integral part of any engineering or science-based knowledge creation activity. Moreover, the data generated by a systematic set of experiments are the foundation for the generalizations which constitute the derived knowledge. For the purpose of completeness, validation,...

Hub Owners/Managers Users Group led by Hub Owners for Hub Owners

Seminars | 12 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

According to Etienne Wenger, a Community of Practice (COP) has three characteristics First, a COP has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people....

HUBbub 2013

Series | 11 Sep 2013

This conference, held on Sept. 5-6, at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre, presented an overview of the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Experts in cyberinfrastructure, social science, and national policy...