Here is an example of a database that is supposedly popular in its discipline. Wonder how.
Paleobiology Database
http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
hubzero
http://hubzero.org/
HUBzero® is a platform used to create dynamic web sites for scientific research and educational activities. With HUBzero, you can easily publish your research software and related educational materials on the web.
That is all I know for now but I hope to learn more.
HUBzero® is a platform used to create dynamic web sites for scientific research and educational activities. With HUBzero, you can easily publish your research software and related educational materials on the web.
That is all I know for now but I hope to learn more.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
geodata workshop report
Outcome of the GeoData meeting:
http://tw.rpi.edu/media/latest/WorkshopReport_GeoData2011.pdf
"A scientific culture change in regard to modern data is underway but must be accelerated."
That would be nice.
Part of the tetherless world constellation:
http://tw.rpi.edu/web/
The meaning of TWC seems esoteric to me.
http://tw.rpi.edu/media/latest/WorkshopReport_GeoData2011.pdf
"A scientific culture change in regard to modern data is underway but must be accelerated."
That would be nice.
Part of the tetherless world constellation:
http://tw.rpi.edu/web/
The meaning of TWC seems esoteric to me.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
startup.m (2)
A long time ago I wrote about setting defaults in startup.m.
Today I finally got to running my new MATLAB on my new computer and have been doing things like setting the path and specifying startup.m.
It is probably safer not to rely too much on startup.m, because if you write a program and then send it to someone else, who hasn't set default font and linewidth and etc. like your own startup.m, then things can get ugly.
I set two things in my startup.m (which is placed into a folder near the top of my path)
(1) MATLAB will open up to a specific folder:
cd C:\Users\me\Documents\MATLAB
(2) log everything I type into the commandline into a date-specific text file
diaryname = ['diary\' datestr(now, 'yyyy-mm-dd') '-diary.txt'];
diary(diaryname);
I'm pretty pleased about these two things.
Today I finally got to running my new MATLAB on my new computer and have been doing things like setting the path and specifying startup.m.
It is probably safer not to rely too much on startup.m, because if you write a program and then send it to someone else, who hasn't set default font and linewidth and etc. like your own startup.m, then things can get ugly.
I set two things in my startup.m (which is placed into a folder near the top of my path)
(1) MATLAB will open up to a specific folder:
cd C:\Users\me\Documents\MATLAB
(2) log everything I type into the commandline into a date-specific text file
diaryname = ['diary\' datestr(now, 'yyyy-mm-dd') '-diary.txt'];
diary(diaryname);
I'm pretty pleased about these two things.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
earthcube (2)
You can join the EarthCube community here:
http://earthcube.ning.com/
Typical statement:
The goal of EarthCube is to transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences.
There is also a link for a questionnaire about science/data requirements gathering. I don't know exactly what that means but I'm going to find out.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements
http://earthcube.ning.com/
Typical statement:
The goal of EarthCube is to transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences.
There is also a link for a questionnaire about science/data requirements gathering. I don't know exactly what that means but I'm going to find out.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
data publishing ditty
A short article about data publishing and technology.
http://blogs.wiley.com/publishingnews/2011/06/28/it%E2%80%99s-what-counts-how-data-transforms-our-world/
Mentions DataCite, Mendeley, and Scribd.
Data management plans are becoming increasingly integral to project funding proposals – and will continue to become more stringent. However, both services (e.g., global standards, long-term curation) and incentives (such as academic credit, enforceable policies, and funder metrics) need to be overhauled in order to provide people with the resources and operability they need.
The current mismatch was illustrated by Todd Vision (DRYAD). Quoting a recent PARSE survey, he noted that there is a major discrepancy between researchers’ apparent willingness to share data (85%) and current levels of actual compliance with requests or funding mandates (27%).
http://blogs.wiley.com/publishingnews/2011/06/28/it%E2%80%99s-what-counts-how-data-transforms-our-world/
Mentions DataCite, Mendeley, and Scribd.
Data management plans are becoming increasingly integral to project funding proposals – and will continue to become more stringent. However, both services (e.g., global standards, long-term curation) and incentives (such as academic credit, enforceable policies, and funder metrics) need to be overhauled in order to provide people with the resources and operability they need.
The current mismatch was illustrated by Todd Vision (DRYAD). Quoting a recent PARSE survey, he noted that there is a major discrepancy between researchers’ apparent willingness to share data (85%) and current levels of actual compliance with requests or funding mandates (27%).
Monday, August 29, 2011
metadata conference
There is an entire conference about metadata and vocabularies. This is insane. But important. I actually wish I could learn all the content about the conference without actually traveling.
Program:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2011
Metadata people say "Dublin Core" a lot and until you know what that is, it is very perplexing.
Dublin Core (from wikipedia):
The Dublin Core set of metadata elements provides a small and fundamental group of text elements through which most resources can be described and catalogued. Using only 15 base text fields, a Dublin Core metadata record can describe physical resources such as books, digital materials such as video, sound, image, or text files, and composite media like web pages. Metadata records based on Dublin Core are intended to be used for cross-domain information resource description and have become standard in the fields of library science and computer science. Implementations of Dublin Core typically make use of XML and are Resource Description Framework based.
Program:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2011
Metadata people say "Dublin Core" a lot and until you know what that is, it is very perplexing.
Dublin Core (from wikipedia):
The Dublin Core set of metadata elements provides a small and fundamental group of text elements through which most resources can be described and catalogued. Using only 15 base text fields, a Dublin Core metadata record can describe physical resources such as books, digital materials such as video, sound, image, or text files, and composite media like web pages. Metadata records based on Dublin Core are intended to be used for cross-domain information resource description and have become standard in the fields of library science and computer science. Implementations of Dublin Core typically make use of XML and are Resource Description Framework based.
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