Swiss Experiment: an e-science platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research 14 The contribution of satellite remote sensing to the monitoring of cryosphere in mountains 17 High Elevations working group: a new element of the Coordinated Energy and water cycle Observation Project 21 Impressum The Mountain Research Initiative c/ This Newsletter comes out twice a year. Edi...

This project applies the action research educational method to the application and evaluation of the Community of Practice (CoP) principle to eScience postgraduate project courses in IT at the Australian National University. A CoP was formed comprising of the seven graduate students enrolled in the various eScience project courses and the project co-ordinator (the author) of the first semester ...

With the advances in e-Sciences and the growing complexity of scientific analyses, more and more scientists and researchers are relying on workflow systems for process coordination, derivation automation, provenance tracking, and bookkeeping. While workflow systems have been in use for decades, it is unclear whether scientific workflows can or even should build on existing workflow technologies...

The concept of executable documents is attracting growing interest from both academics and publishers since it is a promising technology for the the dissemination of scientific results. Provenance is a kind of metadata that provides a rich description of the derivation history of data products starting from their original sources. It has been used in many different e-Science domains and has sho...

Digital preservation of (business) processes is an emerging topic in Digital Preservation research. Information technology driven processes are complex digital objects, living in an broad context of aspects relevant to their preservation. In this poster, we detail the broad environment of one sample process from the domain of E-Science, a genre classification experiment in the domain of Music I...

for delegation pack: The management of large eScience projects is complex and often requires differentmethodologies to be applied, in addition to people management skills which need totake into account the needs of the collaborating communities, from the nurturing ofinnovation, to the reassurance of risk taking. eScience should seek to explore thevariances with taught methods an...

The advent of new means of performing research and sharing results in eScience settings poses new threats and sets new requirements to research procedures. One of them is providing long-term access and means for ensuring correct interpretation of research artefacts in the future. For this purpose several problems and challenges have to be solved to embody the concept of sustainable eScience. In...

We show how state-of-the-art Semantic Web technology can be used in e-Science, in particular, to automate the classification of proteins in biology. We show that the resulting classification was of comparable quality to that performed by a human expert, and how investigations using the classified data even resulted in the discovery of significant information that had previously been overlooked,...

We investigated the learning behavior of undergraduates with e-book logs. E-book logs from 99 undergraduates taking an information science course were collected. First, we analyzed differences between nine high-achieving students and three low-achieving students. A log recorded before a class session in which the same e-book was used as a textbook was considered a preview log, and one recorded ...

Management of sensor data requires metadata to understand the semantics of observations. While e-science researchers have high demands on metadata, they are selective in entering metadata. The claim in this paper is to focus on the essentials, i.e., the actual observations being described by location, time, owner, instrument, and measurement. The applicability of this approach is demonstrated i...