Introduction to the splinter meeting on "Free and Open Source Software in the Geosciences", held on April 10 2013 at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna.
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
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
Globe-based earth browsers like GoogleEarth have turned web-based cartography into a widely accepted
commodity. This success is based on the three components: The browser software itself, remote sensing
data as a backdrop maps and thematic content layers.
From a GRASS GIS perspective, the ability to communicate thematic content via earth browsers is a
strategic means to quickly communicate findings to very large communities.
This poster describes the current options to compose such thematic content layers by using GRASS GIS:
Loosely coupled Keyhole Markup Language (KML) export functionalities provide the „glue“ for the seamless
integration between the GIS and the earth browser.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3D-printing with GRASS GIS – a work in progress in report FOSS4G 2014Peter Löwe
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.
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.
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.
Program of the 5th edition of
the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
In conjunction with the 21thInternational Smalltalk Joint Conference
2015 FOSS4G Track: What is Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Appli...GIS in the Rockies
This talk presents an overview of FOSS4G and the issues and characteristics that makes it a mature alternative in the geo-technologies arena. The following questions will be addressed: What is FOSS4G? What is its history and current state of the art? Why you should consider it as an alternative to private/proprietary software options? What are the common concerns regarding the use of FOSS4G? Are they true? What mature FOSS4G is available for every geo-technology niche (Desktop GIS; Remote Sensing, etc..)? Is there a conflict between private/proprietary geospatial software and FOSS4G?
Presentation by Jennifer Edmond for the PARTHENOS workshop "Introducing PARTHENOS - Integrating the Digital Humanities" on 14 December 2016 in Prato, Italy.
Globe-based earth browsers like GoogleEarth have turned web-based cartography into a widely accepted
commodity. This success is based on the three components: The browser software itself, remote sensing
data as a backdrop maps and thematic content layers.
From a GRASS GIS perspective, the ability to communicate thematic content via earth browsers is a
strategic means to quickly communicate findings to very large communities.
This poster describes the current options to compose such thematic content layers by using GRASS GIS:
Loosely coupled Keyhole Markup Language (KML) export functionalities provide the „glue“ for the seamless
integration between the GIS and the earth browser.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3D-printing with GRASS GIS – a work in progress in report FOSS4G 2014Peter Löwe
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.
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.
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.
Program of the 5th edition of
the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
In conjunction with the 21thInternational Smalltalk Joint Conference
2015 FOSS4G Track: What is Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Appli...GIS in the Rockies
This talk presents an overview of FOSS4G and the issues and characteristics that makes it a mature alternative in the geo-technologies arena. The following questions will be addressed: What is FOSS4G? What is its history and current state of the art? Why you should consider it as an alternative to private/proprietary software options? What are the common concerns regarding the use of FOSS4G? Are they true? What mature FOSS4G is available for every geo-technology niche (Desktop GIS; Remote Sensing, etc..)? Is there a conflict between private/proprietary geospatial software and FOSS4G?
Presentation by Jennifer Edmond for the PARTHENOS workshop "Introducing PARTHENOS - Integrating the Digital Humanities" on 14 December 2016 in Prato, Italy.
It is the fourth of the "ITU Main Library Doctoral Seminars series" organized in 2021 as part of the "Scientific Research, Education and Seminar" course. In the presentation, content compiled from Foster Open Science, OpenAIRE, Creative Commons, and similar sources was shared with the participants.
Semantic Archive Integration for Holocaust Research: the EHRI Research Infras...Vladimir Alexiev, PhD, PMP
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is a large-scale EU project that involves 23 institutions and archives working on Holocaust studies, from Europe, Israel and the US. In its first phase (2011-2015) it aggregated archival descriptions and materials on a large scale and built a Virtual Research Environment (portal) for Holocaust researchers based on a graph database.
In its second phase (2015-2019), EHRI2 seeks to enhance the gathered materials using semantic approaches: enrichment, coreferencing, interlinking. Semantic integration involves four of the 14 EHRI2 work packages and helps integrate databases, free text, and metadata to interconnect historical entities (people, organizations, places, historic events) and create networks. We will present some of the EHRI2 technical work, including critical issues we have encountered.
WP10 (EAD) converts archival descriptions from various formats to standard EAD XML; transports EADs using OAI PMH or ResourceSync; ingests EADs to the EHRI database; enables use cases such as synchronization; coreferencing of textual Access Points to proper thesaurus references
WP11 (Authorities and Standards) consolidates and enlarges the EHRI authorities to render the indexing and retrieval of information more effective. It addresses Access Points in ingested EADs (normalization of Unicode, spelling, punctuation; deduplication; clustering; coreferencing to authority control), Subjects (deployment of a Thesaurus Management System in support of the EHRI Thesaurus Editorial Board), Places (coreferencing to Geonames); Camps and Ghettos (integrating data with Wikidata); Persons, Corporate Bodies (using USHMM HSV and VIAF); semantic (conceptual) search including hierarchical query expansion; interconnectivity of archival descriptions; permanent URLs; metadata quality; EAD RelaxNG and Schematron schemas and validation, etc.
WP13 (Data Infrastructures) builds up domain knowledge bases from institutional databases by using deduplication, semantic data integration, semantic text analysis. It provides the foundation for research use cases on Jewish Social Networks and their impact on the chance of survival.
WP14 (Digital Historiography Research) works on semantic text analysis (semantic enrichment), text similarity (e.g. clustering based on Neural Networks, LDA, etc), geo-mapping. It develops Digital Historiography researcher tools, including Prosopographical approaches.
Audiovisual archives and digital humanitiesJohan Oomen
Contribution to the 'Opening up speech archives' conference, February 7, 2013.
By Johan Oomen, Roeland Ordelman, Erwin Verbruggen
Context: http://lukemckernan.com/2013/02/05/opening-up-speech-archives/
Open Science in the Institutional Setting (Presentation by Eva Méndez at DI4...OpenAIRE
Presentation by Prof. Dr. Eva Méndez from UC3M, at the Digital Infrastructures Conference 2018, Lisbon - OpenAIRE session: The Who and the How of Open Science: A user journey in Open Science through the lens of OpenAIRE (Oct. 10, 2018)
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.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
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EGU 2013: Splinter Meeting: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Geosciences
1. Splinter Meeting:
Free and Open Source Software
(FOSS) in the Geosciences
Wednesday, April 10
17:30 – 19:00 hours
Room R10
• DOI: 10.1038/nature10836
3. It's time to talk about FOSS -in Science
Close Up
“To every age its SCIENCE.
To SCIENCE its freedom.”
Sezession-Museum,
Karlsplatz, Vienna
4. Free Open Source Software in Science
A success story !
• One year ago:
– EGU 2012: First Splinter Session on FOSS
– Many attendees, very positive feedback
• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2012:
– First full session on FOSS in Science
– Reach Out Meeting between AGU and OSGeo
• EGU 2013:
– Second Splinter Meeting (right now)
– Reach Out Meeting with OSGeo (afterwards)
– Coverage by Austrian Public Radio ORF.
– Session ESSI2.7 tommorrow:
• People got travel money for EGU just because of their FOSS work!
5. Session ESSI 2.7:
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
for Geoinformatics and Geosciences
Thursday, April 11
Oral Presentations:
10:30 – 12:00 hours
Room R14
6. Agenda
• What is this FOSS exactly ?
– Software ? Where to get it ?
– A way to do (better) research ? Lifestyle ? Ideology ?
– Significance of FOSS for EGU / ESSI
– Showcases
• Discussion: Challenges / Issues / Road ahead
• Opportunity: Meet with local FOSS people at
SCHWEIZERHOF Restaurant (19:30 hours) for more
discussions.
7. Overview
Available FOSS Software Tools
FOSS Your work,
Organisations Your needs
Impact on
Science
9. How are scientists using FOSS ?
ESSI 2.7
Thursday:
● Scientists apply and communicate FOSS: 10:30,
● To “forge” new research tools R14
● FOSS to implement algorithms
● To extend existing tools & apply them for new uses
● To share their work in the scientific and FOSS communities
● Scientists aren't professional programmers. They
create
● “tools which work (well enough)”
● “proof of concept”
10. Introducing FOSS Software
• There are many FOSS • There is FOSS data (e.g.:
tools for Science Open Street Map)
available.
• Most tools are „ready to
• Most of the are on the use“ (available as executables,
Web source code is provided anyway)
• FOSS tools are available • FOSS tools can be used
for together with propietary
Microsoft/Mac/Linux/And software.
roid/etc.
• They can interact with
propietary data formats.
11. FOSS-Communities
• People using and • Geospatial Example:
developing FOSS are – OSGeo: Worldwide
organized in multiple Umbrella Organisation
ways (which are compatible. since mid2000s
Ist no one-or-the-other) – Community and licence
• Example: R (Statistics) appliance testing
– CRAN Archive – Conferences
– Mailing Lists
– Books
12. Reaching Critical Mass
• One main benefit of FOSS tools is the
Freedom to combine them into any kind of
workflow.
• Problem: It would be good to know what tools
exist and where to find them ...
13. http://live.osgeo.org
• A „swiss army knife“
collection of Geospatial
tools (+ data +
documentation)
• Linux based
• Can be used standalone
(leaves no footprint)
• Or for installation
• DVD/UsbStick/ISO-
Image
18. Information Sources
on FOSS in Science and Applications
• OSGeo portal:
www.osgeo.org
• Project Websites
• Blogs
• Slideshare
• Youtube
19. FOSS in Science: “FOSSIS”
● Communicate findings, learn from others
● Connect & network with FOSS practioners from all
scientific fields
● Support the “next generation” of scientists using
and promoting FOSS in Science.
● Everybody can participate – not limited to Scientists
● Everbody will benefit
20. Tasks for FOSSIS
● Knowledge
● advancing,
● sharing and
● Preservation
● Follow the scientific method
● “Reproducible research vs. non-reproducible
research”
21. FOSSIS Issue: Code Citation
● Recognition of scientific work by peers:
Reviewed Articles, Conferences like EGU
● Recognition for FOSS code by peers @ EGU ?
● Not there yet
● Recognition of advances in “FOSS in Science”
is needed !
22. Example
● Current research leads to new database
tools,
● these are shared and become used
worldwide.
● This DOES NOT improve one's citation
record - yet.
Is community-accepted FOSS-code
peer-reviewed ?
23. Ideas for EGU 2013 ESSI 2.7
Thursday
● A ESSI-session for “FOSSIS technical solutions” (derived
from other topical sessions) ?
● A FOSSIS price for young scientists ? TBD
● Innovative FOSS use in a scientific field ?
● Unheard of combined use of FOSS tools ?
● Tangible web-presence/contact point for FOSSIS at EGU
● EGU 2014: Tutorials on FOSS Software ?
Mailing List:
Give use your
contact email to
join !
24. It's time to talk about FOSS -in Science
“To every age its SCIENCE.
To SCIENCE its freedom.”
Close Up
Sezession-Museum,
Karlsplatz, Vienna
25. FOSS in Science
● Communicate findings, learn from others
● Connect & network with FOSS practioners from all
scientific fields
● Support the “next generation” of scientists using
and promoting FOSS in Science.
●
● Everybody can participate – not limited to Scientists
● Everbody will benefit
26. Burning Issue: Code Citation
● Recognition of scientific work by peers:
Reviewed Articles, Conferences like EGU
● Recognition for FOSS in Science by peers @
EGU ? Not there yet
● Recognition of advances in “FOSS in
Science” is needed
28. Let‘s move to:
Schweizerhaus
• U1 Subway Exit: Praterstern
• Address: Prater 116, 1020 Wien
www.schweizerhaus.at
Because for technical reasons at the moment
we do not accept credit cards!
29. Thanks for coming !
See you at
FOSSGIS 2013 (Rapperswill)
FOSS4G 2013 (Nottingham)
FOSS4GCEE 2013 (Bucarest)
AGU 2014
EGU 2014
…
30. Splinter Meeting:
Free and Open Source Software
(FOSS) in the Geosciences
Wednesday, April 10
17:30 – 19:00 hours
Room R10
This splinter meeting allows geoscientists to discuss the
opportunities and challenges of Free and Open Source
(FOSS) Software in their respective fields.