Rhodes workshop program is on OpenTox site in first draft form, but 
needs a significant update to reflect the different hands-on Knowledge 
Fair activities etc. - will try to get done by tomorrow, and additional 
information can then be added by all etc.
http://www.opentox.org/data/blogentries/public/opentoxworkshoprhodes2010

Barry

Am 07.09.2010 11:46, schrieb chung:
> Hi Nina, Tobias, Barry,
>     In fact I had in mind what Nina suggested, that is to prepare the
> source code for the workshop and then have the participants examine it
> and run it (Write some more if we have time). Primarily I want to
> present how the API works from the client and from the server side so
> that one might be interested in developing a new service or use our
> services in some application.
>     Barry, I'm expecting an audience with a moderate acquaintance with
> Java. I will send out some installation instructions. Is there some
> place on the site I could post them along with a brief description of
> the scope of the discussion?
>
> Best Regards,
> Pantelis
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:24 +0300, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:
>
>> Hi Pantelis,
>>
>> First, I think your plan is great.  I have to agree with Tobias though,
>> time-wise it is rather ambitious. It's rather difficult exercise to perform
>> without knowing the participants background and experience, and there are
>> quite number of dependencies which are very likely to be unfamiliar.
>>
>> To make it more feasible, I would suggest preparing readily available pieces
>> of code, either for running them directly, or accompanied by instructions to
>> copy/paste them to achive certain goal.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Nina
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tobias Girschick<
>> tobias.girschick at in.tum.de>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Pantelis,
>>>
>>> first of all, I like the partitioning into two parts. In the first part
>>> participants can get a feeling for the OT API and in the second they can
>>> make use of it.
>>> Overall I guess your time estimates are very (very) optimistic. You have
>>> to keep in mind, that we don't know the exact programming skills of the
>>> participants and that that haven't worked with our - still not
>>> sufficiently documented - API at all.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 18:22 +0300, chung wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>     I'm sending out some notes/thoughts about the Techie Table
>>>>
>>>> @All:
>>>>     I'm thinking of organizing the discussion and presentation in two
>>>> parts. In the first we are going to show how a developer can consume
>>>> OpenTox web services from inside a Java application using some tools of
>>>> ours. This will include some A&A also. Using web clients and parsers,
>>>> the participants will download and parse OpenTox resources such as
>>>> compounds, features, datasets and models and inspect them from within
>>>> their Java application. Exercises will include parsing of datasets and
>>>> conversion into weka data objects (Instances), training of various
>>>> models using NTUA, TUM and AMBIT algorithms (where necessary using also
>>>> the A&A API). So this will familiarize the participants with the direct
>>>> consumption of OT web services on a more advanced level than  using web
>>>> interfaces and a more programmatic way than using plain curl. This will
>>>> take about 45 minutes including discussion/questions.
>>>>     In the second part, I'm thinking of having the audience building an
>>>> OpenTox web service with some guidance. We will design and deploy a
>>>> clustering algorithm for the sake of getting in touch with web services
>>>> and having a better insight into the OpenTox API. First we will study
>>>> the requirements of the OT API and will formulate hypothetical curl
>>>> commands for how a request would look like (In a top-down approach).
>>>> Then we will proceed formulating an RDF representation of the algorithm
>>>> discussing at the same time about the structure of such a document and
>>>> the information that should be found therein. Jena will be used as an
>>>> RDF editor/parser, which will be quite useful to developers that want to
>>>> get involved into any contemporary project (web semantics etc). We will
>>>> not get into much detail as far as the storing of models is concerned
>>>> but briefly we'll present the underlying database tables structure. Weka
>>>> will be used to materialize the XMeans algorithm. The whole effort will
>>>> boil down to just about 500 lines of source code including the use of
>>>> various Java libraries such as Restlet, Weka, Jena and DeciBell.  This
>>>> will take about 75' and the rest of the time we will discuss about
>>>> various challenges a developer can take.
>>>>
>>>>    I'll be sending you a list of what should a participant have installed
>>>> by the end of the day. If any participants experience problems
>>>> installing any of the libraries/tools/programs in the list, we'll do it
>>>> together on the table.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Pantelis
>>>>
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