Speaker
Dr
Carole Goble
(Univ. of Manchester)
Description
Over the past decade we have worked closely with
Scientists - and specifically Life Sciences - to deliver
systems and middleware to help solve their data
management and integration problems. Its has been,
and continues to be, an interesting learning experience.
Most recently our myGrid project - which has produced
the Taverna Workflow Workbench - has successfully
bridged to the Bioinformatics community in that the
Scientists have not only driven the developments but
they have also adopted the technology that we have
produced to do Science. So why did we succeed this
time and how could we do better? What were the
tipping points? How did we create (or not) the
environment for adoption? What are the technical,
social and political imperatives for true engagement
with applications? Why are Life Scientists from Venus
and Computer Scientists from Mars?
