First, sorry for posting three weeks’ blogs at one time. To conclude what I have done in the last three weeks in one word, it is “coding”. After done the preparations, we decided to get started to improve the usability of SE. Based on the user research, we list several Continue reading Week 4,5,6: coding, coding and coding
Eileen had become an expert in datasets involving oil spills around the world. Horrified but equally fascinated by these man-made disasters, she had made a career out of tracking the oil spills and their ecological fallout. While she often felt sickened by witnessing such devastation, Eileen’s gloomy specialty had at Continue reading The Patience of the Data Hunter
This past week was mainly about implementing the owl recommendation feature. Currently in the annotator we have a context menu display when the user right-click on the column header of the csv file he/she imported. I added “annotation recommendation” as one of the option/function to the menu. The recommendation function automatically Continue reading Week 6 – Enabling recommendation feature based on user profile
I spent part of this week continuing work on the Metadata Standard GitHub page. During the last six weeks I have updated and edited the page due to broken links. I have also changed some of the wording on the landing page. I also spent part of the week reading Continue reading Week Six
This week was devoted to refining the User and Permission interfaces, and starting to test them. A User will basically consist of a grouping of Permissions, and also a grouping of preferences. The Annotator will then need to check for the relevant permissions when necessary, and also store and make Continue reading Week 6 – User and Permission Interfaces
During this week, I have focused on searching and collecting the list of projects which are relevant to volunteered geographic information (VGI). It was pretty challenging to find any summarized list, probably because the term of VGI had been coined relatively recently in 2007. The VGI sites inventory on VGI-net, Continue reading Collecting the list of VGI-related projects and induce their relevant categories – week 7
Based on the academic papers collected from Scopus and the citizen science project list, my work for this week includes first, organizing paper coding results by creating a table containing the information that for each unique citizen science project, what data quality mechanisms this project adopted and what details of these mechanisms mentioned in Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites – Week 6
This week’s efforts were mostly a wrap-up of last week’s work in preparation for the DUG meeting: more screencast tutorial recording and editing along various styles. In particular creating a video for the geographic search shows off how some of the visual effects look in a more complex user interface. Continue reading Off to the DUG meeting – Screencast Tutorials, Week #6
I am well on my way to completing video #02 & #03. Both are in rough cut stage and I’m confident with some tweaking will be completed before the end of my term. Video #02 has to do with tree analysis and Video #03 has to do with a bug Continue reading Week #07 : More Videos in Rough Cut Stage
This week’s report is actually a combination of three 1/3 weeks, since I attended a conference in Germany and due to the visa issue, I stayed in China for two weeks after the conference. So I did travel around the world. The conference is called ProvenanceWeek 2014, which took place in Continue reading Week 4 – Around the world…