HUBbub 2013, Day 1 Morning Sessions

12 Sep 2013 | Series

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 Geospatial Search Component for HUBzero

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Tao Zhang, Brandon M Beatty, Christopher Cody Charles, Nicole Kong

In this presentation, we report the development of a map-based component for browsing and searching for members, events, and jobs information on HABRI (Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative) Central, a HUBzero-based digital library project jointly run by between Purdue Libraries and...

A HUBzero component for experimental knowledge management and data analytics

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Elçin Içten (presenter)

A workflow based knowledge management system, KProMS, that functions as a HUBzero component has been developed at Purdue University. It captures the complete provenance of knowledge by modeling the details of the associated knowledge generation steps as workflows. Its unique workflow...

A HUBzero Extension for Automated Tagging

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

A Multi OS Hub Approach: Integrating the Windows Operating System Into the Hub

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Christopher Joseph Nuland

The Linux operating system lends itself nicely to the Hub platform and tool sets. However, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used in nearly all industries. For research heavy industries, like nano technology or genetics, Linux is the main operating system of choice; but for industries...

A plugin for integration between moodle and hubzero using IMS LTI

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Juan Pineda, Juan Guillermo Lalinde (presenter), Ruben Espinosa Roldan, Esteban Alarcón

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (IMS LTI) is a standard specification that allows the integration of rich learning applications into learning environments. Its main goal is to enhance a transparent relationship between subsystems within a learning environment where the users could be...

AgMIP Data Aggregator: Leveraging Globus Online and HUBzero to Make Global Spatial Data Accessible

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Nelson B. Villoria, Hongjun Choi, Steven Clark

As part of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP, http://www.agmip.org), the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison group ran a suite of global climate models and crop models to estimate historical and future changes in yields for crops under different climate...

An Integrated Collaborative Environment for Materials Research

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Matthew D Jacobsen (presenter)

The dramatic rise in the volume, complexity, and utility of digital research data has triggered a need for scientific software systems that can manage this data across a laboratory enterprise. With no turnkey solutions available for this very difficult task, highly customizable and modular...

AWS 101: What is Amazon Web Services and how is Amazon's Cloud used in Science and Education

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Steve Elliot (presenter)

Amazon Web Services is used by over 1 million customers and 4500 different academic institutions around the globe. AWS users leverage Amazon’s cloud for everything from mission critical space operations to launching new business and social apps or running large compute jobs across thousands...

Building the real-time hub

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett, David Lomas

Many forms of collaboration can be significantly enhanced through the addition of real-time interaction. This presentation will cover our experiments in integrating Node.js with HUBzero, and creating real-time applications that live within the existing HUBzero framework.

Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Von Welch

The Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC / trustedci.org) is a NSF-funded project to provide cybersecurity leadership and applied research for the NSF scientific computing community. CTSC has engaged with nearly a dozen NSF project on cybersecurity challenges as well as...

Collaboration and Contributions

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

Complex Workloads on HUBzero – Pegasus Workflow Management System

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Karan Vahi (presenter), Mats Rynge, Steven Clark, Ewa Deelman

The HUBzero platform for scientific collaboration enables tool developers to build tools that are easily shared with both researchers and educators. This enables users to login and start their analysis without worrying about setup and configuration of the tools. Once, the analysis is done...

Computational System Federation through a Common Service Bus

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Fourman, Matthew D Jacobsen, Kevin Porter, Claire Stirm

The Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE) is a federated software framework that aims at connecting disparate systems for the purpose of enhanced productivity in the AFRL community. To meet demands for greater efficiency and better research, ICE acts as a common mediator between numerous...

Configuring and Customizing

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

Creating a Materials Innovation Infrastructure

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Matthew D Jacobsen, Charles Ward

Establishing a pervasive Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) environment requires model-based definition of materials and processes in a historically ad hoc and disconnected research environment, which in turn demands a significant paradigm shift in both capability and culture....