CREW

We’ve been ask to record a seminar here in Manchester. For me it was the first test of the final product. The recording worked well. If you want a look: http://tinyurl.com/ThomasHPayne (CREW URL are a pain – so I created a short cut). With the upload there have been a number of bugs. First I could not create a user name for myself. Secondly when uploading a recording to an event which does not exist in the crew server yet the creation of all necessary directories did not work properly. Harvesting of the uploaded event needed some tinkering. Once all the little bugs there overcome the recording played without problem.

CREW was presented in a short session covering all four VRE phase 2 projects. The event was a JISC funded workshop in Edinburgh (NESC 9th June 2009). This acted also as one of two wrap-up sessions.

This workshop also considered the Community Engagement projects.

Some random points, areas to be tackled and thoughts :

• Visualization of user awareness – lots of people are unaware of tools.
• Security – data issues.
• Support infrastructure – how to create an aligned infrastructure: key is AG
• How to start a new service…?
• Q – what stops or hinders research.

Lots of points raied on taking prototypes and current systems to the next stage – and enable new research.

Aside: Last month there was a  longer presentation on CREW which is available on slideshare.