Monday 17 February 2025, 13.00-13.50 UTC
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Social and cultural barriers to data sharing across DRI communities - a social science approach
Dr Francisco Durán del Fierro (University College London)
Data-intensive research, open science, data sharing, and research reproducibility, represent a new mode of science, with its own work practices, methods and epistemologies (Leonelli, 2014). This form of doing science is not only transforming many professional domains but also the way researchers relate to themselves, others and knowledge. Various policy reports and research indicate that open science and data sharing are essential for advancing scientific inquiry and knowledge, fostering new forms of collaboration, communication, and reflection. However, these advancements introduce challenges that extend beyond technical aspects, touching on social and cultural dimensions as well. Despite ongoing efforts to promote data sharing within and across research communities, there is still limited understanding of the complex and emerging forms of epistemic uncertainties and resistance associated with adopting data sharing, especially when science is being transformed by the emergence and adoption of new types of Digital Research Infrastructures (DRIs). Based on insights from the FAIR Data Pilot Project - Cultivating Cultures of Data Sharing, this presentation will examine the social and cultural barriers to data sharing and propose strategies to cultivate Cultures of Data Sharing across scientific communities.
SRCNet v0.1 Enabling the SKA Community for the Next Era of Exabyte Astronomy
James Walder (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will generate unprecedented volumes of data, necessitating a robust and scalable infrastructure for processing, storage, and new paradigms in analysis of data. The SKA Regional Centre Network (SRCNet) is at the heart of this effort, with the UK contributing significantly in its design and deployment. SRCNet v0.1, set for early 2025, represents a crucial step in prototyping the movement, management, and analysis of SKA data. This webinar will introduce the UKSRC community to the current achievements and future plans for SRCNet v0.1. Key topics include the deployment of data ingestion and dissemination tools, the role of science platforms in enabling interactive analysis.
Thursday 03 October 2024, 11:30 - 12:30 BST (12:30 CEST)
This UKSRC webinar is in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía’s SO coloquio series.
The next generation of milliarcsecond surveys with SKA-VLBI
Dr Jack Radcliffe (University of Pretoria & University of Manchester)
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), using both SKA-Low and Mid, is poised to deliver groundbreaking observations with milliarcsecond resolution, surpassing the capabilities of the standard SKA array. In conjunction with the SKA, VLBI holds the promise of unlocking profound insights across various astrophysical topics and science working groups. VLBI with the SKA stands to revolutionise our understanding of galaxy evolution and the physics of jet accretion by studying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at low luminosities. Moreover, it is poised to make significant contributions to cosmology by constraining dark energy and dark matter via gravitational lenses and studying nuclear water masers. Exploring the stellar lifecycle, including the temporal evolution of supernova remnants and the rapid follow-up of transients (e.g., localising FRBs and tidal disruption events) adds another dimension to the diverse range of science that VLBI can investigate with the SKA. SKA-VLBI is set to offer unparalleled astrometric observations capable of measuring proper motions and parallaxes of galactic objects. This capability opens the door to mapping the structure of our Galaxy and testing gravity within binary systems. This overview highlights just a subset of the topics addressed in this presentation. I will delve into the scientific achievements achievable through VLBI with the SKA and elucidate the operational aspects of SKA-VLBI
Thursday 25 July 2024, 12:00-12:50 UTC+1
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Developing a science-analysis platform for the SKA
Dr Chris Skipper (University of Manchester)
The SKA is set to bring about a paradigm shift in our approach to astronomical-data analysis, with unprecedented volumes of data making it impractical for astronomers to download and reduce data on their own desktop computers or laptops. The science community will instead interact with SKA datasets through an online science-analysis platform, providing data access and a rich set of tools for data analysis, whilst the data remains stored within a network of high-performance computing centres. It is absolutely essential that SKA data is made accessible to as wide an audience as possible, without the need for users to be computing experts or ‘radio-astronomy ninjas’. In this talk I will outline the SRCNet vision for this science-analysis platform, and demonstrate some features of the prototype that has been developed for the first release early next year.
Towards a systematic sub-arcsecond resolution survey of the Northern low-frequency sky
Dr Frits Sweijen (University of Durham)
Over the past years high-resolution processing of International LOFAR Telescope data has made great strides. With the pipeline coming together, routine data processing for select targets is becoming feasible. One thing this now enables is to do is high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). This “LoTSS-HR” project will target the LoTSS sources above 10 mJy for postage stamp imaging, with the ultimate aim of a sub-arcsecond resolution survey of the northern sky. To illustrate the science this will facilitate I will highlight some recent work happening within the LOFAR group at Durham.
Monday 29 April 2024, 10:00-12:30 BST
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FAIR Data Accelerator
Louise Chisholm, Francisco Duran Del Fierro, Allison Littlejohn, Eileen Kennedy (University College London)
In this Webinar you will: Learn about what insights have arisen from exploring data sharing challenges and barriers across the UK digital research infrastructure landscape. Explore whether these challenges reflect your experiences and values. Find out how you could address these challenges in your research community or Digital research infrastructure. Find out how you could participate in the FAIR Data Accelerator to develop professional development, training or community engagement activities.
Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:00-12:50 UTC
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Introducing the UKSRC
Dr. Louise Chisholm & Prof. Rob Beswick (University College London & University of Manchester)
In this talk we will kick off the UKSRC Webinar Series by introducing the UKSRC.
We invite topic and talk proposals from the project and wider UK community —via the Topic Registration Form.