All Paws 2021

Monday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Online

Join the Clowder community online for three days of talks, demos, and interactive sessions June 21-23, 2021. Registration is now open via the link above! Check out our initial agenda below, with further updates to come.

New in 2021:

Project Talks: Community members will be presenting brief lightning talks highlighting their research as part of this year's programming. All presentation slots are currently filled and the organizing team has reached out to confirm details with speakers. If you are still interested in highlighting your project, there will be opportunities during discussion sections and breakouts. Thank you to everyone who signed up to share your research with the broader community!
Special Gift: You have the option to receive a surprise gift package full of Clowder swag mailed directly to you when you register for All Paws ‘21. Supplies are limited to the first 150 who sign up, so register today!

Agenda

The below agenda is subject to change as speakers and session details are finalized.

All are welcome to participate throughout the event! Developer-focused sessions are highlighted in blue, while other sessions will be of interest to both researchers and developers.

Monday June 21

Time (Central Daylight Time)	Topic
10:00 - 10:05am	Brief Welcome, overview of the day, and policy on q&a
10:05 - 10:30am	Keynote - Kenton McHenry Open Source Scientific Data Management
10:30 - 11:15am	Project Talks - Guest Speakers Topics include: Materials Science, Geoscience and Agriculture Overview - Katie Naum Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC: 4CeeD/BRACELET/SENSELET Jerry Thomas, Syngenta: SIMPL
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:00pm	Clowder Overview - Luigi Marini Design principles driving Clowder. Why Clowder works the way it does. Potential future improvements.
12:00pm - 12:15pm	Clowder User Demonstration - Max Burnette Overview of basic Clowder features
12:15 - 1:15pm	Break / Lunch
1:15 - 1:45pm	Updates since Last All Paws - Luigi Marini The past two years in review; new contributors; and new features.
1:45 - 2:30pm	Overview of Clowder for Developers and Administrators - Luigi Marini Technical overview of Clowder’s main components: extractors, previewers, and Web API. How to setup your development environment.
2:30 - 2:45pm	Break
2:45 - 3:15pm	Data Previewers - Mike Lambert Adding customized visualizations with previewers. “What is a data previewer?” Adding custom previewers. Examples of custom data visualizations. Dataset previewers.
3:15 - 4:00pm	Q&A Preview of Tuesday and Wednesday Poll: Breakout Topics
4:00pm	Adjourn

Tuesday June 22

Time (Central Daylight Time)	Topic
10:00 - 11:00am	Welcome - 5 min Project Talks - Guest Speakers Topics include: Ecosystems and human landscapes, Built environment and geoscience, Materials Science Hoang Nguyen, Rubbiya Ali, University of Queensland: Pitschi: Particle Imaging depoT using Storage CacHing Infrastructure Peter Groves, UIUC NCSA: MRI Image Processing Richard England, Southern Methodist University: SMU Campus Clowder Barbara Minsker, Southern Methodist University: Clowder Use Case: Equity of Urban Neighborhood Infrastructure Noah Fahlgren, Danforth Plant Science Center: Phenomics
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 11:30am	Clowder Extractors - Michael Johnson Introduction to extractors, different extractor types, extractor info JSON document, and extractor catalog.
11:30 - 11:45pm	Ingestion Pipelines and Workflows - Max Burnette As part of the Terra-Ref project, we have received many TB of data per day over multiple years. This presentation will detail how we received the data, got it into Clowder, and ran the appropriate extractors to process the data.
11:45 - 12:15pm	How to create a new Extractor - Todd Nicholson Tutorial on how to add custom extractors Writing extractors for image previews, metadata, and extractor_info.json. Creating the Docker file. Pip and conda.
12:15 - 1:15pm	Break / Lunch
1:15 - 1:45pm	AI Support in Clowder - Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan Overview of machine-learning based extractors, training, and validation capabilities in Clowder.
1:45 - 2:45pm	Project Talks - Guest Speakers Topics: Built Environment, Digital Humanities Norman Adkins, Environmental Protection Agency: CCTE Clowder Georgios Artopoulos, The Cyprus Institute: H2020 NI4OS Clowder4DCH Rini Mehta, University of Illinois: Global Film History Carolina Villarroel, University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program: USLDH Colter Wehmeier, UIUC NCSA / CYI STARC: Wikar / Clowderbridge
2:45 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 3:30pm	Deploying Clowder - Rob Kooper Deploying clowder natively, using docker and using kubernetes. Will leverage katacoda for demonstrations.
3:30 - 4:00pm	Technical Dive into Clowder Core - Max Burnette This presentation focuses on core components of Clowder and how Clowder is built to both scale and extend.
4:00pm	Adjourn

Wednesday June 23

Time (Central Daylight Time)	Topic
10:00 - 10:30am	Welcome - 5 min How to Contribute and Plans for Next Year - Luigi Marini Different ways for you to contribute to Clowder. Clowder 2.0. Plans for next year.
10:30 - 12:00pm	Helping Software and Gateway Projects Get to the Next Level through Collaboration and Engagement - Nancy Maron
12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 - 1:30pm	Project Talks - Guest Speakers Topics include: Earth Science Praveen Kumar, Critical Interface Network (CINet) Anna Liljedahl, Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG)
1:30 - 2:30pm	Topic Specific Breakouts Getting started with Clowder Integration with other data storage systems Creating custom geodashboards Other, based on audience interest
2:30 - 3:00pm	Discussion and Final Thoughts
3:00pm	Adjourn