“If we do not press harder for better metrics, we risk making poor funding decisions or sidelining good scientists” (Lane, 2010). I met with my mentor this week to go through my work and lay out final products. I’ll be producing a white paper from my research, as well as Continue reading Week 9 – The beginning of the end
In order to make citizen science data more discoverable and usable, one strategy is to publish the data to a well recognized, respected and open repository such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF records conform to Darwin Core Standards, community generated standards that ensure that biodiversity metadata is described Continue reading Adventures with the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit
Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Fort Collins, CO to visit with the CitSci.org team at Colorado State University! CitSci.org provides online tools to help citizen science project coordinators create and customize projects, save data, and perform basic analyses on the collected data. Working with the team (Greg Continue reading Adventures in Colorado
Some earlier conversations suggested that I would be assisting with a usability analysis of the DataUP Tool in the UTK-ORNL User Experience Lab. However, more recent discussions between Mike Frame with the USGS and Carly Strasser and Patricia Cruse with the California Digital Library have shifted focus to the Data Continue reading User Experience Lab: DMPTool Usability Testing
Google Search used: “post by e-mail” AND draft site:wordpress.com Third result poses question: can the default publish status be “draft”, or are all Post by Email submissions published immedately The site is en.blog.wordpress.com So this is probably what I am interested in. From another blog, I may have found the Continue reading E-mail to Open Notebook – Shortcodes
This week was lots and lots of coding. With only a couple hick-ups (now resolved), the SeaIce prototype is online — albeit with a subset of the planned features. Users may now log on with their Google accounts and browse or search by term string (no authentication required), add terms Continue reading Week 3 – Essential features and web deployment
Our goal is to create a crowd-sourced, open platform ontology for metadata which could be applicable to just about any field or subject matter (intellectual property in general). The key innovation is that the set of terms and their relationships will evolve to peoples’ needs in a social ecosystem. We Continue reading Week 1 – Precise metadata ontology
For the purposes of setting up this open notebook, I have an assigned category (data science). The category collects all of my unique blog entries into one collection: To organize information further, wordpress allows for the use of tags. Tags are separated with commas. Unfortunately, I do not have a Continue reading On Tagging