As the amount of scientific data continues to grow, researchers need new tools to help them visualize complex data. Immersive data-visualisations are helpful, yet fail to provide tactile feedback and sensory feedback on spatial orientation, as provided from tangible objects.
The production of a tangible representation of a scientific data set is one step in a line of scientific thinking, leading from the physical world into scientific reasoning and back: The process starts with a physical observation, or from a data stream generated by an environmental sensor. This data stream is turned into a geo-referenced data set. This data is turned into a volume representation which is converted into command sequences for the printing device, leading to the creation of a 3D printout via additive manufacturing (“3D-printing”). As a last, but crucial step, this new object has to be documented and linked to the associated metadata, and curated in long term repositories to preserve its scientific meaning and context.
This presentation showcases a reference workflow to produce tangible 3D data-prints based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), using both GRASS GIS and Paraview. The workflow was successfully validated in various application scenarios using a RapMan printer to create 3D specimens of elevation models, geological underground models, ice penetrating radar soundings for planetology, and space time stacks for Tsunami model quality assessment.
GRASS GIS, Star Trek and old Video Tape – a reference case on audiovisual pre...Peter Löwe
This presentation showcases new options for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories or Youtube. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos and screencasts can be preserved by advanced multimedia archiving and retrival services which are currently developed by the library community. This is demonstrated by the reference case of a newly discovered high resolution version of the GRASS GIS 1987 promotional video which made available from into the AV-portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The portal allows for extended search capabilities based on enhanced metadata derived by automated video analysis. This is a reference case for future preservation activities regarding semantic-enhanced Web2.0 content from OSGeo projects.
FOSSGIS 2015: Das audiovisuelle Erbe der OSGeo-ProjektePeter Löwe
Die Menge der audiovisuellen Inhalte hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen und wächst weiterhin stark. Die thematische Palette erstreckt sich dabei von Anleitungsvideos für Softwarekomponenten, über Ergebnis- und Datenvisualisierungen bis hin zur abstrahierten Darstellung der Evolution einzelner Softwareprojekte. Die Fülle dieser Fachinformationen wird noch hauptsächlich in Web2.0 Portalen wie Youtube oder Slideshare ausgetauscht. Daraus ergeben sich Probleme sowohl bezüglich der langfristigen Verfügbarkeit und der Auffindbarkeit anhand geeigneter Metadaten für die Nutzer. Eine zukunftssichere Alternative bietet die Nutzung von innovativen Bibliotheksdiensten, wie dem AV-Portal der Technischen Informationsbibliothek (TIB). Hier werden nicht nur die Metadaten eines Videos indexiert sondern ebenso die gesprochene Sprache, Texteinblendungen und Bildinformationen. Dies führt zu einer erheblich verbesserten Suche nach und in audiovisuellen Ressourcen. Durch die Verbindung eines DOI mit einem Media Fragment Identifier wird die sekundengenaue Zitierfähigkeit der Materialien gewährleistet.
Der Nutzen des Portals wird am Beispiel der erfolgreichen digitalen Erschließung des GRASS GIS Videos des U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory (CERL) aus dem Jahr 1987 demonstriert. Der Inhalt dieses historischen Videos bietet einen Einblick in die Frühphase der GIS Entwicklung. Die Erschließungsgeschichte des Videos seit 2004 ist ein Referenzfall für den aktuellen Stand und das sich abzeichnende Potential audiovisueller Information für die Geoinformatik und speziell den wissenschaftlichen Anwendern und Entwicklern in den OSGeo Projekten.
Vi kommer omkring:
- Oprettelse af databaser, login og brugere
- Oprettelser af tabeller
- Oprettelse af ODBC datakilder
- MapInfos kortkatalog
- Åbning af DBMS tabeller fra MapInfo Professional
- Upload af tabeller til SQL Server
- Editering af tabeller fra MapInfo Professional
- Oprettelse af views
- De spatiale objekter og funktioner i SQL Server
- Oprettelse af Triggers
- Anvendelse af MapBasic mod SQL Server
I was presenting my masters work to my colleagues in the digital libraries research group. It was a 15 minute presentation on what I have done thus far and how I intend to proceed.
And Yes! I've decided to maintain this slide template.
GRASS GIS, Star Trek and old Video Tape – a reference case on audiovisual pre...Peter Löwe
This presentation showcases new options for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories or Youtube. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos and screencasts can be preserved by advanced multimedia archiving and retrival services which are currently developed by the library community. This is demonstrated by the reference case of a newly discovered high resolution version of the GRASS GIS 1987 promotional video which made available from into the AV-portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The portal allows for extended search capabilities based on enhanced metadata derived by automated video analysis. This is a reference case for future preservation activities regarding semantic-enhanced Web2.0 content from OSGeo projects.
FOSSGIS 2015: Das audiovisuelle Erbe der OSGeo-ProjektePeter Löwe
Die Menge der audiovisuellen Inhalte hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen und wächst weiterhin stark. Die thematische Palette erstreckt sich dabei von Anleitungsvideos für Softwarekomponenten, über Ergebnis- und Datenvisualisierungen bis hin zur abstrahierten Darstellung der Evolution einzelner Softwareprojekte. Die Fülle dieser Fachinformationen wird noch hauptsächlich in Web2.0 Portalen wie Youtube oder Slideshare ausgetauscht. Daraus ergeben sich Probleme sowohl bezüglich der langfristigen Verfügbarkeit und der Auffindbarkeit anhand geeigneter Metadaten für die Nutzer. Eine zukunftssichere Alternative bietet die Nutzung von innovativen Bibliotheksdiensten, wie dem AV-Portal der Technischen Informationsbibliothek (TIB). Hier werden nicht nur die Metadaten eines Videos indexiert sondern ebenso die gesprochene Sprache, Texteinblendungen und Bildinformationen. Dies führt zu einer erheblich verbesserten Suche nach und in audiovisuellen Ressourcen. Durch die Verbindung eines DOI mit einem Media Fragment Identifier wird die sekundengenaue Zitierfähigkeit der Materialien gewährleistet.
Der Nutzen des Portals wird am Beispiel der erfolgreichen digitalen Erschließung des GRASS GIS Videos des U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory (CERL) aus dem Jahr 1987 demonstriert. Der Inhalt dieses historischen Videos bietet einen Einblick in die Frühphase der GIS Entwicklung. Die Erschließungsgeschichte des Videos seit 2004 ist ein Referenzfall für den aktuellen Stand und das sich abzeichnende Potential audiovisueller Information für die Geoinformatik und speziell den wissenschaftlichen Anwendern und Entwicklern in den OSGeo Projekten.
Vi kommer omkring:
- Oprettelse af databaser, login og brugere
- Oprettelser af tabeller
- Oprettelse af ODBC datakilder
- MapInfos kortkatalog
- Åbning af DBMS tabeller fra MapInfo Professional
- Upload af tabeller til SQL Server
- Editering af tabeller fra MapInfo Professional
- Oprettelse af views
- De spatiale objekter og funktioner i SQL Server
- Oprettelse af Triggers
- Anvendelse af MapBasic mod SQL Server
I was presenting my masters work to my colleagues in the digital libraries research group. It was a 15 minute presentation on what I have done thus far and how I intend to proceed.
And Yes! I've decided to maintain this slide template.
Lecture at the three-week Summer School "Data Curation" for archaeologists from Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Palestine and Tunisia at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin from 16 July to 5 August 2017.
The workshop was planned together with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), as well as with the Sudanese Anti-National Service for NCAM (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums).
Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
Digital Science: Reproducibility and Visibility in AstronomyJose Enrique Ruiz
The science done in Astronomy is digital science, from observing proposals to final publication, to data and software used: each of the elements and actions involved in scientific output could be recorded in electronic form. This fact does not prevent the final outcome of an experiment is still difficult to reproduce. This procedure can be long, tedious, not easily accessible or understandable, even to the author. At the same time, we have a rich infrastructure of files, observational data and publications. This could be used more efficiently if we reach greater visibility of the scientific production, which avoids duplication of effort and reinvention.
Reproducibility is a cornerstone in scientific method, and extraction of relevant information in the current and future data flood is key in Astronomy. The AMIGA group (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies, IAA-CSIC, http://amiga.iaa.es) faces these two challenges in the European project "Wf4Ever: Advanced technologies for enhanced preservation workflow Science" to enable the preservation of the methodology in scalable semantic repositories to facilitate their discovery, access, inspection, exploitation and distribution. These repositories store the experiments on "Research Objects" whose main constituents are digital scientific workflows. These provide a comprehensive view and clear scientific interpretation of the experiment as well as the automation of the method, going beyond the usual pipelines that normally end up in data processing.
The quantitative leap in volume and complexity of the next generation of archives will need analysis and data mining tasks to live closer to the data, in computing and distributed storage environments, but they should also be modular enough to allow customization from scientists and be easily accessible to foster their dissemination among the community. Astronomy is a collaborative science, but it has also become highly specialized, as many other disciplines. Sharing, preservation, discovery and a much simplified access to resources in the composition of scientific workflows will enable astronomers to greatly benefit from each other’s highly specialized knowhow, they constitute a way to push Astronomy to share and publish not only results and data, but also processes and methodologies.
We will show how the use of scientific workflows can help to improve the reproducibility of the experiment and a more efficient exploitation of astronomical archives, as well as the visibility of the scientific methodology and its reuse.
GIS Day 2015: Geoinformatics, Open Source and Videos - a library perspectivePeter Löwe
Digital audiovisual content has become an important communication channel in Science. The TIB|AV-Portal for audiovisual scientific-technical information meets the requirements to preserve such content and to provide innovative services for search and retrieval. Quality checked audiovisual content from Open Source Geoinformatics communities is constantly being acquired for the portal as a part of TIB's mission to preserve relevant content in applied computer sciences for science, industry, and the general public.
This presentation was presented at the IGeLU conference in Oxford, UK. It introduces the audience into the EU funded research project DURAARK and gives an insight for the first archieved goals and next steps concerning the preservation of three dimensional architectural data.
A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
CartoHeritage 2011: Georeferencer & MapRank SearchPetr Pridal
Presentation from the workshop: Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage 2011: 6th International Workshop, The Hague, 7-8 April 2011.
http://xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Commission/6th_Workshop/TheHague/
Presentations:
P. Pridal, Georeferencer: Collaborative online georeferencing tool for scanned maps.
P. Pridal, MapRank Search: Intuitive geographical searching in map collections and metadata catalogs.
Text and Non-textual Objects: Seamless access for scientists
Uwe Rosemann (German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Germany)
The European High Level Expert Group on Scientific data has formulated the challenges for a scientific infrastructure to be reached by 2030: “Our vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.
Here, “data” is not restricted to primary data but also includes all non-textual material (graphs, spectra, videos, 3D-objects etc.).
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has developed a concept for a national competence center for non-textual materials which is now founded by the German State and by the German Federal Countries. The center has to perform the task: developing solutions and services together with the scientific community to make such data available, citable, sharable and usable, including visual search tools and enhanced content-based retrieval.
With solutions such as DataCite and modular development for extraction, indexing and visual searching of new scientific metadata, TIB will accept the challenge. And will make all data accessible to its users fast, convenient and easy to use.
The paper shows what special tools are developed by TIB in the context of scientific AV-media, 3D-objects and research data.
Data Science in 2016: Moving up by Paco Nathan at Big Data Spain 2015Big Data Spain
The term 'Data Science' was first described in scientific literature about 15 years ago. It started to become a major trend in industry about 7 years ago.
O'Reilly Media surveys the industry extensively each year. In addition we get a good birds-eye view of industry trends through our conference programs and publications, working closely with some of the best practitioners in Data Science.
By now, the field has evolved far beyond its origins eclipsing an earlier generation of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing approaches. Data Science is moving up, into the business verticals and government spheres of influence where it has true global impact.
This talk considers Data Science trends from the past three years in particular. What is emerging? Which parts are evolving? Which seem cluttered and poised for consolidation or other change?
Session presented at Big Data Spain 2015 Conference
15th Oct 2015
Kinépolis Madrid
http://www.bigdataspain.org
Event promoted by: http://www.paradigmatecnologico.com
Abstract: http://www.bigdataspain.org/program/thu/slot-2.html
Best practice of crowdsourcing, demos and ongoing projects, examples, success rules, citizen science, free platforms, competition, rewarding, motivation,
Digital research: Collections, data, tools and methods Stella Wisdom
Presentation for the Economic and Social Research Council North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership event on 26th November 2021, by Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator, British Library
Lecture at the three-week Summer School "Data Curation" for archaeologists from Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Palestine and Tunisia at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin from 16 July to 5 August 2017.
The workshop was planned together with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), as well as with the Sudanese Anti-National Service for NCAM (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums).
Digital Humanities is a term that elicits both excitement and scorn in scholarly circles, and there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it is a field of inquiry, a set of research methods, or simply a new perspective on arts and humanities research. This workshop will provide a brief survey of how the evolving theory and practice of using contemporary technology and technology-assisted research methods are impacting scholarship in the arts and humanities.
Digital Science: Reproducibility and Visibility in AstronomyJose Enrique Ruiz
The science done in Astronomy is digital science, from observing proposals to final publication, to data and software used: each of the elements and actions involved in scientific output could be recorded in electronic form. This fact does not prevent the final outcome of an experiment is still difficult to reproduce. This procedure can be long, tedious, not easily accessible or understandable, even to the author. At the same time, we have a rich infrastructure of files, observational data and publications. This could be used more efficiently if we reach greater visibility of the scientific production, which avoids duplication of effort and reinvention.
Reproducibility is a cornerstone in scientific method, and extraction of relevant information in the current and future data flood is key in Astronomy. The AMIGA group (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies, IAA-CSIC, http://amiga.iaa.es) faces these two challenges in the European project "Wf4Ever: Advanced technologies for enhanced preservation workflow Science" to enable the preservation of the methodology in scalable semantic repositories to facilitate their discovery, access, inspection, exploitation and distribution. These repositories store the experiments on "Research Objects" whose main constituents are digital scientific workflows. These provide a comprehensive view and clear scientific interpretation of the experiment as well as the automation of the method, going beyond the usual pipelines that normally end up in data processing.
The quantitative leap in volume and complexity of the next generation of archives will need analysis and data mining tasks to live closer to the data, in computing and distributed storage environments, but they should also be modular enough to allow customization from scientists and be easily accessible to foster their dissemination among the community. Astronomy is a collaborative science, but it has also become highly specialized, as many other disciplines. Sharing, preservation, discovery and a much simplified access to resources in the composition of scientific workflows will enable astronomers to greatly benefit from each other’s highly specialized knowhow, they constitute a way to push Astronomy to share and publish not only results and data, but also processes and methodologies.
We will show how the use of scientific workflows can help to improve the reproducibility of the experiment and a more efficient exploitation of astronomical archives, as well as the visibility of the scientific methodology and its reuse.
GIS Day 2015: Geoinformatics, Open Source and Videos - a library perspectivePeter Löwe
Digital audiovisual content has become an important communication channel in Science. The TIB|AV-Portal for audiovisual scientific-technical information meets the requirements to preserve such content and to provide innovative services for search and retrieval. Quality checked audiovisual content from Open Source Geoinformatics communities is constantly being acquired for the portal as a part of TIB's mission to preserve relevant content in applied computer sciences for science, industry, and the general public.
This presentation was presented at the IGeLU conference in Oxford, UK. It introduces the audience into the EU funded research project DURAARK and gives an insight for the first archieved goals and next steps concerning the preservation of three dimensional architectural data.
A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
CartoHeritage 2011: Georeferencer & MapRank SearchPetr Pridal
Presentation from the workshop: Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage 2011: 6th International Workshop, The Hague, 7-8 April 2011.
http://xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Commission/6th_Workshop/TheHague/
Presentations:
P. Pridal, Georeferencer: Collaborative online georeferencing tool for scanned maps.
P. Pridal, MapRank Search: Intuitive geographical searching in map collections and metadata catalogs.
Text and Non-textual Objects: Seamless access for scientists
Uwe Rosemann (German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Germany)
The European High Level Expert Group on Scientific data has formulated the challenges for a scientific infrastructure to be reached by 2030: “Our vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.
Here, “data” is not restricted to primary data but also includes all non-textual material (graphs, spectra, videos, 3D-objects etc.).
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has developed a concept for a national competence center for non-textual materials which is now founded by the German State and by the German Federal Countries. The center has to perform the task: developing solutions and services together with the scientific community to make such data available, citable, sharable and usable, including visual search tools and enhanced content-based retrieval.
With solutions such as DataCite and modular development for extraction, indexing and visual searching of new scientific metadata, TIB will accept the challenge. And will make all data accessible to its users fast, convenient and easy to use.
The paper shows what special tools are developed by TIB in the context of scientific AV-media, 3D-objects and research data.
Data Science in 2016: Moving up by Paco Nathan at Big Data Spain 2015Big Data Spain
The term 'Data Science' was first described in scientific literature about 15 years ago. It started to become a major trend in industry about 7 years ago.
O'Reilly Media surveys the industry extensively each year. In addition we get a good birds-eye view of industry trends through our conference programs and publications, working closely with some of the best practitioners in Data Science.
By now, the field has evolved far beyond its origins eclipsing an earlier generation of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing approaches. Data Science is moving up, into the business verticals and government spheres of influence where it has true global impact.
This talk considers Data Science trends from the past three years in particular. What is emerging? Which parts are evolving? Which seem cluttered and poised for consolidation or other change?
Session presented at Big Data Spain 2015 Conference
15th Oct 2015
Kinépolis Madrid
http://www.bigdataspain.org
Event promoted by: http://www.paradigmatecnologico.com
Abstract: http://www.bigdataspain.org/program/thu/slot-2.html
Best practice of crowdsourcing, demos and ongoing projects, examples, success rules, citizen science, free platforms, competition, rewarding, motivation,
Digital research: Collections, data, tools and methods Stella Wisdom
Presentation for the Economic and Social Research Council North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership event on 26th November 2021, by Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator, British Library
INTEGRATION OPTIONS FOR PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS IN OSGEO PROJECT REPOSITORIES:...Peter Löwe
As a contribution to the currently ongoing larger effort to establish Open Science as best practices in academia, this article focuses on the Open Source and Open Access tiers of the Open Science triad and community software projects. The current situation of research software development and the need to recognize it as a significant contribution to science is introduced in relation to Open Science. The adoption of the Open Science paradigms occurs at different speeds and on different levels within the various fields of science and crosscutting software communities. This is paralleled by the emerging of an underlying futuresafe technical infrastructure based on open standards to enable proper recognition for published articles, data, and software. Currently the number of journal publications about research software remains low in comparison to the amount of research code published on various software repositories in the WWW. Because common standards for the citation of software projects (containers) and versions of software are lacking, the FORCE11 group and the CodeMeta project recommending to establish Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), together with suitable metadata setss to reliably cite research software. This approach is compared to the best practices implemented by the OSGeo Foundation for geospatial community software projects. For GRASS GIS, a OSGeo project and one of the oldest geospatial open source community projects, the external requirements for DOI-based software citation are compared with the projects software documentation standards. Based on this status assessment, application scenarios are derived, how OSGeo projects can approach DOI-based software citation, both as a standalone option and also as a means to foster open access journal publications as part of reproducible Open Science.
Unlocking conference videos by DOI/MFID for software project communitiesPeter Löwe
Das TIB AV-Portal der Technischen Informationsbibliothek in Hannover ist eine kunden- und bedarfsorientierte Plattform für hochwertige wissenschaftliche Videos aus dem Bereich Technik und Naturwissenschaften. Automatische Szenenerkennung sowie Text-, Audio- und Bildanalyse werden zur automatischen Anreicherung mit Metadaten genutzt. Die Filme sind mit einem Digital Object Identifier (DOI) und - auf Segmentbasis - mit Media Fragment Identifiern versehen, womit die Filme sekundengenau dereferenziert und zitiert werden können. Praxisnutzen und Potentiale dieser Infrastruktur für die Erschließung und Nachnutzung in Wissenschaft, Lehre und Industrie werden exemplarisch am Beispiel der FOSS4G-Konferenzvideos der Open Source Geospatial Foundation, vorgestellt.
The TIB|AV Portal : OSGeo conference videos as a resource for scientific res...Peter Löwe
This paper reports on new opportunities for research and education in Free and Open Source Geoinformatics as a translational part of Open Science, enabled the growing collection of OSGeo conference video recordings at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Since 2015, OSGeo conference recordings have been included to the collection sphere of TIB in information sciences. Currently, video content from selected national (FOSSGIS), regional (FOSS4G-NA) and global (FOSS4G) conferences is being actively collected. The annual growth exceeds 100 hours of new content relating to the OSGeo software projects and the OSGeo scientific-technical communities. This is seconded by retrospective acquisition of video material dating from past conferences, going back until 2002 to preserve this content, ensuring both long term availability and access. The audiovisual OSGeo-related content is provided through the TIB|AV Portal, a web-based platform for scientific audiovisual media providing state-of-the art multimedia analysis and retrieval. It implements the requirements by research libraries for reliable long term preservation. Metadata enhancement analysis provides extended search and retrieval options. Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) enable scientific citation of full videos, excerpts and still frames, use in education and also referral in social networks. This library-operated service infrastructure turns the audiovisual OSGeo-related content in a reliable source for science and education.
Tectonic Storytelling with Open Source and Digital Object Identifiers - a cas...Peter Löwe
The communication of advances in research to the common public for both education and decision making is an important aspect of scientific work. An even more crucial task is to gain recognition within the scientific community,
which is judged by impact factor and citation counts. Recently, the latter concepts have been extended from
textual publications to include data and software publications.
This paper presents a case study for science communication and data citation. For this, tectonic models, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), best practices for data citation and a multimedia online-portal for scientific content
are combined. This approach creates mutual benefits for the stakeholders: Target audiences receive information on
the latest research results, while the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) increases the recognition and citation of
underlying scientific data. This creates favourable conditions for every researcher as DOI names ensure citeability and long term availability of scientific research.
In the developed application, the FOSS tool for tectonic modelling GPlates is used to visualise and manipulate
plate-tectonic reconstructions and associated data through geological time. These capabilities are augmented by the Science on a Halfsphere project (SoaH) with a robust and intuitive visualisation hardware environment.
The tectonic models used for science communication are provided by the AGH University of Science and Technology.
They focus on the Silurian to Early Carboniferous evolution of Central Europe (Bohemian Massif) and were
interpreted for the area of the Geopark Bergstraße Odenwald based on the GPlates/SoaH hardware- and software stack.
As scientific story-telling is volatile by nature, recordings are a natural means of preservation for further use, reference and analysis. For this, the upcoming portal for audiovisual media of the German National Library of Science and Technology TIB is expected to become a critical service infrastructure. It allows complex search queries, including metadata such as DOI and media fragment identifiers (MFI), thereby linking data citation and science
communication.
Data Science: History repeated? – The heritage of the Free and Open Source GI...Peter Löwe
Data Science is described as the process of knowledge extraction from large data sets by means of scientific
methods. The discipline draws heavily from techniques and theories from many fields, which are jointly used to
furthermore develop information retrieval on structured or unstructured very large datasets. While the term Data
Science was already coined in 1960, the current perception of this field places is still in the first section of the hype cycle according to Gartner, being well en route from the technology trigger stage to the peak of inflated
expectations.
In our view the future development of Data Science could benefit from the analysis of experiences from
related evolutionary processes. One predecessor is the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The
intrinsic scope of GIS is the integration and storage of spatial information from often heterogeneous sources, data
analysis, sharing of reconstructed or aggregated results in visual form or via data transfer. GIS is successfully
applied to process and analyse spatially referenced content in a wide and still expanding range of science
areas, spanning from human and social sciences like archeology, politics and architecture to environmental and
geoscientific applications, even including planetology.
This paper presents proven patterns for innovation and organisation derived from the evolution of GIS,
which can be ported to Data Science. Within the GIS landscape, three strategic interacting tiers can be denoted: i) Standardisation, ii) applications based on closed-source software, without the option of access to and analysis of the implemented algorithms, and iii) Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) based on freely accessible program code enabling analysis, education and ,improvement by everyone. This paper focuses on patterns gained from the synthesis of three decades of FOSS development. We identified best-practices which evolved from long term FOSS projects, describe the role of community-driven global umbrella organisations such as OSGeo, as well as the standardization of innovative services. The main driver is the acknowledgement of a meritocratic attitude.
These patterns follow evolutionary processes of establishing and maintaining a web-based democratic culture
spawning new kinds of communication and projects. This culture transcends the established compartmentation and
stratification of science by creating mutual benefits for the participants, irrespective of their respective research
interest and standing. Adopting these best practices will enable
The Evolution of Disaster Early Warning Systems in the TRIDEC Project Peter Löwe
The TRIDEC project (Collaborative, Complex, and Critical Decision Processes in Evolving Crises) focuses on real-time intelligent information management in the Earth management domain and its long-term applications. It is funded under the European Union’s seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The TRIDEC software framework is applied in two application environments, which include industrial subsurface drilling (ISD) and natural crisis management (NCM).
For each domain, three consecutive demonstrators with extended capabilities are developed and field-tested during the projects lifespan. This article focuses on the technical advances achieved by the light-, mid- and heavyweight NCM demonstrators for Tsunami Early Warning.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
3D-printing with GRASS GIS – a work in progress in report FOSS4G 2014
1. Scientific 3D Printing with GRASS GIS
Introduction and Work in Progress Report
Dr. Peter Löwe
FOSS4G 2014
2014-09-12
2. 2
In a nutshell
• Consumer 3D printers are evolving very quickly
• 3D printing extends „flat“ 2D science communication.
• 3D pre-prints can already be generated with GRASS GIS.
• Dedicated GRASS support for 3D printing will soon simplify the
process.
• Research libraries take on Visual Analytics and 3D printing,
driving the standardisation of Metadata.
• This is work in progress: We barely got started.
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The Library Angle:
Open Source + Science = Open Science
Science advances only if knowledge is shared.
Accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge
accelerates the advancement of science.
4. 4
The Who ?
German: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
• largest science and technology library globally
• over 9 Mio. items,
• 180 Mio. documents
• 125 km of shelving
• national library of Germany for
• engineering, technology, and the physical sciences.
• funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the
16 German states.
• the world's first Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration
agency for research data sets (since 2005).
• operates in conjunction with the Leibniz University, Hannover.
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The future:
Data-driven Libraries
„Libraries are changing from repositories
for journals and books to
engaged community centers offering
new services, shaping
innovative research.“
Libraries offer places and services for discovery.
The path to a relevant, 21st-century library: “serendipitous discovery.”
Christopher Erdmann, 2014
John G Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/data-driven-library-future
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„While scientists focus on the final frontier,
(data-driven libraries) will work on designing
a different kind of space
full of physical and virtual tools
that
capture imagination and
enable researchers to explore it.“
Christopher Erdmann, 2014
John G Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/data-driven-library-future
http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com
The future:
Data-driven Libraries
7. • Content based Retrieval
• Science 2.0 and Open Science
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Applied research topics at TIB
•Visual Analytics
•Ontologies
8. 8
Visual Analytics: Querying and communicating Data
The challenge:
• Communicating the meaning of scientic data
• Haptic/Tactile Visualization ?
The need:
A tangible representation of scientific results.
?
1492 Today Future
9. 9
3D printing for science communication:
The larger picture
Target group
Transformation / Reduction of content
Scientific
Data
3D
Print
Scientist
Science
Communication
10. 10
3D printing for science communication:
The larger picture
Target group
Technical Printing Process
Metadata Management
Scientific
Data
3D
Print
Scientist
Science
Communication
Librarian / Data-Scientist
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3D printing for science communication:
The value of metadata
3D
Print
Back-linking by metadata
Inquiries
Technical Printing Process
Metadata Management
Scientific
Data
Librarian / Data-Scientist
13. 13
NMC Horizon Report 2014 Library Edition
on scientific libraries.
Trends, technologies and challenges over the next five years:
• Focus on research data and new forms of multidisciplinary research.
• Rise of alternative search technologies
• Need for radical change owing to technological and social upheaval.
• Released in May 2014
• http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-library
• Created by
• New Media Consortium (NCM)
• ETH-Bibliothek Zürich,
• University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur
• German National Library of Science and Technology
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Top-Down :
DURAARK: DURable ARchitectural Knowledge
• European Commission-FP7-Project (2013 -
2016) focusing on methods and tools for
long- term preservation of 3D data sources
of architectural knowledge:
• Goal:
• Enrich Building Information Models with “as
built” information from scans
• Semantically enrich building models with
additional data sets
• Preserve 3D models for future reuse
16. 3D Data
(Geological
models,
soil
penetrating
radar)
Tsunami
Simulations
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Bottom-up: GRASS GIS-based 3D-printing
Osaka City University
FabLab
Potsdam Materials
GIS modularisation
GIS workflow
development
Initial GIS-driven
experiments
Stakeholders
Printing
Process
Expertise
INAF
Astrophysics Institute,
Rome
Hardware
2D
Data
(Elevation
Models)
Data Sources
Software
Workflows and Services
TIB Hannover
GFZ Potsdam
Multiple linked learning processes
18. 18
„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
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„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
• Guns !
20. 20
„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
• Guns !
• Human body parts !
21. 21
„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
• Guns !
• Human body parts !
• Clothes !
22. 22
„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
• Guns !
• Human body parts !
• Clothes !
• Candy !
23. 23
„The future is here“ (again)
The potential of „3D printing“ as
featured in the news:
• Guns !
• Human body parts !
• Clothes !
• Candy !
• Space Exploration !
24. 24
3D Printing, the Gartner hype cycle, and science
http://surveys.peerproduction.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GoogleTrendsGartnerHypeCycle.png
3D Printing
2014
25. 25
3D Printing, the Gartner hype cycle, and science
http://surveys.peerproduction.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GoogleTrendsGartnerHypeCycle.png
3D Printing
2014
• Handpieces for science
communication
• among scientists
• towards the general
public
• Showpieces for exhibitions
• <your application goes here>
Reality-check
26. 26
Printing Process Overview
Data Conversion Model Export
Pre-print
3D print
GIS Domain
27. 27
Printing Process Overview
Data Conversion Model Export
Pre-print
3D print
Printing
domain
GIS Domain
30. 30
RapMan 3.2: Reality check
Marcel
Ludwig
Resident 3D
printing expert
at GFZ Potsdam
31. 31
RapMan 3.2: Reality check
Marcel
Ludwig
Resident 3D
printing expert
at GFZ Potsdam
32. 32
RapMan 3.2: Reality check
Raw
Material
Control
Unit
Print head,
cooling fan
Print in
progress
Marcel
Ludwig
Resident 3D
printing expert
at GFZ Potsdam
33. 33
Close-Up: Actual printing
Print
head
Internal
support
structure
External
support
structure
3D printing
in progress
43. 43
Complex data sets:
Tsunami propagation space-time-cubes
• Space Time Cube
(STC) of tsunami
wave propagation.
• Complex wave
propagation in time
and space.
• Allows visual model
quality assessment.
• Produced by GFZ
Potsdam
• On permanent
display at the Osaka
City University (2014)
3D Print
Tsunami
Model
Time
Lon/Lat
Tohoku
Shoreline
Pacific
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GRASS
GIS
Technical overview
Data
png/pdf
3D preprint:
vtk,VRML.etc.
3D preprints - just a gdal/ogr extension ?
2D Map-Printout
3D Volume-Printout
46. needs buffering
46
Fault 2
Structural integrity
GRASS
GIS
Technical overview
Data
png/pdf
Fault 1
3D preprint:
vtk, etc.
Geologic
stratum
Thematic generalisation
3D preprints - just a gdal/ogr extension ?
Tricky part,
Thematic generalisation and print consistency is required
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Technical overview:
Current situation
Data
2D/3D Data 3D 3D Triangulation
v.in.ogr
r.in.gdal
r.to.rast3 r3.mapcalc r3.out.vtk
new modules new modules new modules
Ingest
Volume
generation
Volume
processing
Export
t.xxx
48. 3D
Print
3D Printing
48
Capa-bilities
Raster
Wanted:
GRASS GIS 3D print workflow trailblazers
Volume generalisation with r3.x and t.x-modules
requires currently these skills:
• Science Interpreter/Communicator: „What
message to convey ?“
• Technical/Software:
• invent new workflows,
• script these,
• document them
• Admin/Pioneer: be able to install patches for
GRASS7, help improve code maturity
Volumes
Vector Time
Time
Volumes
Raster / Vector
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Use of USGS Digital Elevation Models
GRASS Clippings: 1992
• http://grass.osgeo.org/uploads/grass/history_docs/grassclip6_2_92.pdf
http://ned.usgs.gov/historic.html
53. 53
But how to make a before-after print
– in GRASS GIS ?
Pre-Eruption Post-Eruption Ejected material
55. 55
Next Step: Printout on a RapMan Printer
32 hours
3km^2
Z-scaling: 3*
56. 56
The road ahead
Workflow integration
• File formats (VRML, x3d, obj)
• Size of printout ?
• Coloring schemes ?
• Material selection ?
• this is currently left to the „printmaster“
Provenance, Metadata and Archiving:
• Not to be left to the scientists
• Leave it to the Libraries:
• „Handling metadata and indexes for over 5 millenia“
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Summary
• 3D printing extends „flat“ 2D science communication.
• 3D pre-prints can already be generated with GRASS GIS.
• Dedicated GRASS support for 3D printing will soon simplify the
process.
• Research libraries take on Visual Analytics and 3D printing,
driving the standardisation of Metadata.
• This is work in progress: We barely got started.
• .
58. 58
Thanks for listening
Have a great FOSS4G 2014 !
Contact: peter.loewe@tib.uni-hannover.de