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Renan has contacted the admin (Vinicius) for the UFRJ PingER monitor, to see if it can be restored to a working state. Vinicius explained they went through infrastructure changes and there are some important hardware pieces missing, which is delaying the process. Vinicius explained that hopefully around mid-February they should have the necessary hardware so they can reinstall the systems and PingER program.
Renan started testing Virtuoso last weekend. He now has the data in an easily exchangeable format so he can transfer it from the earlier repository he was using (OWLIM) to the new one (Virtuoso). That is what he is trying to do this week: upload to the Virtuoso database. The main problem for me is that he can use only 2 hours a day to work, because of his job.
Bebo Renan is looking at submitting a paper or poster for a Big Data and Social Computing conference that will be held at Stanford: He is pretty sure he can argue that we have made nice contributions for social computing using (big) data handling technologies. He will discuss with his professor at Rio so she can help him with advice. Bebo has looked at the conference and believes a posters submission would be good. Renan will look into whether he can get financial assistance to attend.talked to his supervisor, Luiza and she suggested him to get in touch with another professor at UFRJ who also has experience in submitting papers for international conferences. She also has experience in big data, especially working with scientific data. This new professor, called Marta, said she can help Renan with writing and submitting for the Stanford Big Data Conference. We would need to submit a 10-pages-2-columns paper, focusing on Big Data processing (and maybe analysis), trying to also give some ‘scientific content’ approach, because this is Marta’s field of research. The due date for the paper submission is March 1st.
It would be good if somebody else was able to work with Renan to move PingER LOD forward. However we think the performance issue has to be resolved first.
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