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The NCSA has Supercomputing coloring books.  That should tell you all you need to know.

The SEASR workshop began with some general introductions from NCSA,  Christopher Mackie from the Mellon Foundation, and Michael Welge from NCSA/SEASR Project.  A lot of people here came directly from the Bamboo workshop #3 in Tuscon (which is sort of cruel considering it is -25F with the windchill here).  I’m curious to hear about Bamboo - at first glance it seems that SEASR is an instatiation of some of Bamboo’s goals, but that may be a gross misrepresentation. About to see some examples of the SEASR software in action.  Raw notes from the introductions:

SEASR:
•    SEASR: Semantic Web driven SOA interoperability
•    Modular
•    Enable mashups
•    Rely heavily on RDF
•    Search & browse Fedora
•    Export from Zotero to Fedora
•    Simile Timeline interface

Model:
•    Meandre infrastructure (ZigZag scripting language)
•    Layered architecture with component repository service layer
•    Knowledge Discovery model: Data selection & cleaning -> Data prep (create an example) -> Transformation (munging) -> Data mining/pattern Discovery -> Interpretation/Knowledge.

Participant Project Plan Guide:
•    Research objective
•    Data sources
•    Transformations
•    Query/Descriptive/Analysis
•    Evaluation
•    Interaction
•    Outcome