Mobile technology support for field researchWayne Johnston
This document discusses the use of mobile technologies to support field research. It covers topics like using mobile apps for data collection, SMS, web forms, specialist devices and software. It also addresses data storage options like the cloud, data security, and data management practices when returning from the field. Resources are provided on digital data collection tools that can be used to support field research using mobile devices.
Where did my layer come from? The semantics of data releaseAdam Leadbetter
This document discusses the semantics of spatial data release and provenance metadata. It introduces Adam Leadbetter from the Marine Institute and provides several relevant links on topics like linked data, the PROV ontology, and information on data publication and citation. Several citations and the author's contact details are also included.
This is the presentation material used for the VOGIN-IP lezing 28 februari 2013 by Marina Noordegraaf. If you want to hear more about the context and meaning of the images, you know whom you might ask ;-) For the version WITH animations go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18649633/VOGINIP280213Slideshare.pptx
This document discusses efforts to improve access to agricultural research information through various initiatives. It introduces the CIARD initiative which aims to make this research publicly available and accessible to all. CIARD has developed a manifesto, checklist, pathways, and RING (Research Information Network Gateway) to facilitate discovery and integration of information from different sources. Examples are provided of information systems and repositories that apply CIARD standards to share agricultural research openly, including AGRIS, IRRI's DSpace, ICRISAT's DSpace, and others. Registering services in the RING makes the organizations CIARD partners and helps users more easily find relevant information.
BlueBRIDGE Presentation at Blue Growth Research & Innovation Event 2017Blue BRIDGE
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI and BlueBRIDGE Project Coordinator, contributed to the event as part of the sub session that showcased project portfolios on marine data and digitisation technologies applied to the marine and maritime sector and also affecting aquaculture and fisheries, using this presentation.
This document provides resources for digital preservation outreach and education on identifying and managing digital content over time. It lists examples of digital content inventories from the California Digital Library and University of Kansas. It also provides tools and information on file format identification, validation, characterization and transformation. Resources are included on the sustainability of digital file formats from the Library of Congress and National Archives.
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
Mobile technology support for field researchWayne Johnston
This document discusses the use of mobile technologies to support field research. It covers topics like using mobile apps for data collection, SMS, web forms, specialist devices and software. It also addresses data storage options like the cloud, data security, and data management practices when returning from the field. Resources are provided on digital data collection tools that can be used to support field research using mobile devices.
Where did my layer come from? The semantics of data releaseAdam Leadbetter
This document discusses the semantics of spatial data release and provenance metadata. It introduces Adam Leadbetter from the Marine Institute and provides several relevant links on topics like linked data, the PROV ontology, and information on data publication and citation. Several citations and the author's contact details are also included.
This is the presentation material used for the VOGIN-IP lezing 28 februari 2013 by Marina Noordegraaf. If you want to hear more about the context and meaning of the images, you know whom you might ask ;-) For the version WITH animations go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18649633/VOGINIP280213Slideshare.pptx
This document discusses efforts to improve access to agricultural research information through various initiatives. It introduces the CIARD initiative which aims to make this research publicly available and accessible to all. CIARD has developed a manifesto, checklist, pathways, and RING (Research Information Network Gateway) to facilitate discovery and integration of information from different sources. Examples are provided of information systems and repositories that apply CIARD standards to share agricultural research openly, including AGRIS, IRRI's DSpace, ICRISAT's DSpace, and others. Registering services in the RING makes the organizations CIARD partners and helps users more easily find relevant information.
BlueBRIDGE Presentation at Blue Growth Research & Innovation Event 2017Blue BRIDGE
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI and BlueBRIDGE Project Coordinator, contributed to the event as part of the sub session that showcased project portfolios on marine data and digitisation technologies applied to the marine and maritime sector and also affecting aquaculture and fisheries, using this presentation.
This document provides resources for digital preservation outreach and education on identifying and managing digital content over time. It lists examples of digital content inventories from the California Digital Library and University of Kansas. It also provides tools and information on file format identification, validation, characterization and transformation. Resources are included on the sustainability of digital file formats from the Library of Congress and National Archives.
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
The document discusses discovery in academia, including approaches that have been experimented with and lessons that have been learned. It notes that discovery is an area seeing global investment and outlines some future directions, including innovative cataloguing, linking data, enhanced shared services, and ensuring infrastructure, skills, and data are adequate to support discovery. The document provides several links to additional resources on topics related to academic discovery.
This document summarizes a presentation about transforming the web together through open data and standards. It discusses the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its role in developing open web standards. It provides examples of linked open data projects including data.gov and mashups of government data. Specific open data portals for cities like Chicago are highlighted. Semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, and SPARQL are referenced as working groups at W3C. Links are included to further resources on linked open data basics and news portals. The presentation concludes with mentioning Peter Mika from Yahoo discussing open data.
2015 FOSS4G Track: Open Specifications for the Storage, Transport and Process...GIS in the Rockies
This talk presents an overview of some of the most important Open Specifications (OS) for the storage, transport and processing of geospatial data and why they matter for the development of the next generation of geospatial systems and data infrastructures. What is the importance of being Open? What is the relationship of OS and geospatial software (both FOSS4G and private/proprietary software)? A Web-based system architecture based on OS and FOSS4G will be presented.
The Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) is an online network that makes marine and coastal data accessible by publishing data from various sectors and sources. It relies on data contributions from researchers and agencies but does not generate or store data itself. AODN is working to populate its portal with priority datasets like underway data and is developing a pilot regional node in Western Australia to engage cross-sector collaboration and data sharing in the marine community.
Towards Knowledge Graph based Representation, Augmentation and Exploration of...Sören Auer
This document discusses improving scholarly communication through knowledge graphs. It describes some current issues with scholarly communication like lack of structure, integration, and machine-readability. Knowledge graphs are proposed as a solution to represent scholarly concepts, publications, and data in a structured and linked manner. This would help address issues like reproducibility, duplication, and enable new ways of exploring and querying scholarly knowledge. The document outlines a ScienceGRAPH approach using cognitive knowledge graphs to represent scholarly knowledge at different levels of granularity and allow for intuitive exploration and question answering over semantic representations.
The document discusses open data and data visualization. It provides links to sites about open data related to development. It discusses the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard and examples of open data projects in Uganda and Malawi. It outlines elements of data visualization like time, location, topics, and networks. It provides examples of tools for getting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data. Finally, it lists tutorials and sites for learning more about data visualization and tools like Google Refine, Fusion Tables, and Gephi.
Ensuring that an organisation's digital assets are safe, secure and accessible for the long term should (in theory) be an interesting, responsible and useful role for anyone in an organisation to accept. The critical importance of digital assets, the ubiquity of digital methods and the need for people in all walks of life to have effective means to refer to persistent sources of data reinforce this notion. How is it then that long-term asset management, information lifecycle management, data curation, digital preservation (call it what you will) is often regarded as a peripheral specialist activity that it is diffcult to resource, complex to carry out, and delivers benefits that are, at best, simply an insurance policy rather than an activity that adds value to an organisation?
This presentation will examine the importance of defining clear roles for those involved with digital preservation and will consider the importance of associating this professional activity with strategic and tactical frameworks. It is likely that automated services will increasingly be required to deal with the collosal amount of digital information that will be produced and consumed over the next century and whilst the type and nature of these services are yet to be defined, we can be fairly certain of one endurng requirement, namely, that human judgement will always be needed to curate interesting and useful content for future generations.
The overall food system nearly reached the next strategic inflection point. IoT technology, data sharing and consumers’ demand for sustainable production methods are pushing limits. More than ever, agricultural production needs to deploy knowledge intensive farming practices and increase data sharing. Existing data exchange platforms need to become open data exchange ecosystems managing data owners’ consent and facilitate dynamic collaboration of stakeholders. This shall increase productivity and reduce food loss and waste of the circular food system from Farm2Fork.
FIWARE open-source software and agri-food data models are a cornerstone to facilitate this development. New sources of data can be made accessible, while decreasing effort for aggregating, processing, providing, and accessing data. This session is presenting different practical examples for data usage at the farm site and of partners collaborating along the food supply chain towards consumers helping them to learn about their choices.
The session will also summarise challenges and opportunities of the future of connected agriculture. This is specifically considering a technological perspective. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from different sectors and business domains, aiming at building the foundation of the future data economy for food systems. This will offer the opportunity to learn about synergies considering the close integration of agriculture in smart villages as well as advanced food production and delivery systems that are at the heart of smart cities.
Embedding open in the research training processDanny Kingsley
Abstract: Some institutions offer graduate training that sits alongside the master/apprentice system. But many rely on models such as the Vitae Researcher Development Framework that do not encompass many (or any) open concepts. This means the training of researchers in many of these spaces falls to library staff. From the academic side, grassroots organisations such as AIMOS or ANZORN offer a community for the interested. There are multiple sets of competencies developed for scholarly communication librarians, but these are not represented in any university library course in Australia. So those teaching the research community are relying on gathered skills and working without a standardised set of agreed
learnings for their target community. The result is haphazard and highly reliant on the skills of individuals at specific institutions. We are in need of some robust frameworks and standards. What are the minimum skills and knowledge we would expect of a graduate researcher in Australia when it comes to open? We are not starting from scratch, there are many organisations in Australia that have done work on some aspects of open training or skills. It is time for this to be brought into a cohesive and agreed standard we can all work towards.
This was a lightning talk given online to AIMOS2020 (https://aimos.community/2020-program-schedule)
Seabourne web apps 2014-2015
Data for Humans
We believe that every organization deserves to have its data projects delivered in a modern, well-executed, and predictable way.
LIBERATE YOUR DATA
At Seabourne we partner with our clients to design solutions that deliver business value to data-intensive organizations across many industries (government, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, non-profit, energy, and more).
DATA VISUALIZATION
Seabourne turns complex data into insight-rich information tools for you, your organization, or millions of public users. We use an array of proven pre-built modules making interactive data visuals highly customizable as well cost-effective compared to pre-built vendor and built-from-scratch tools. See DataDash for more details.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Modern organizations use software to organize their operations and to capture their proprietary processes. Such data-intensive software applications organize, analyze, and automate business processes. We build products and solutions for our clients that leverage the value of their data and rationalize their proprietary processes.
DATA INTEGRATION
Organizations can only reap the benefits of software when the data they need is easily accessible. We make data accessible to our clients and their favorite applications (business intelligence, CRM, business software, websites, APIs, and more) by integrating, enriching, migrating, cleansing, publishing and liberating data sources of all types.
Online Video Trends 2015: Personal & Business UseWePow
The document discusses how visual content and online video have become increasingly important forms of communication. It provides statistics that show people retain information better from visual content compared to text, with 80% of information transmitted to the brain being visual. Online video usage has skyrocketed in recent years, with over 12.5 days of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Many businesses are now using video conferencing and online video for tasks like interviews and training in order to improve processes and reduce costs. As visual processing is faster than reading, video has become a key medium for communication and collaboration.
A presentation given as part of the DC101 training course run by the DCC at Oxford University in June 2010. The course provided data management guidance for researchers.
This document provides a collection of links to resources for digital projects. It includes general digital preservation resources from Cornell University, the Digital Library Federation, and the Library of Congress. Standards resources cover Dublin Core metadata elements, digital imaging best practices, and technical guidelines for digitizing archival materials. The document also lists grants, continuing education sources, copyright guidance, and digital library software.
This document provides information about a Data Ethics Think Tank meeting to develop an international charter on the ethical use of location data called the Locus Charter. Representatives from various government agencies and universities from around the world plan to contribute ideas to support the development of the Locus Charter. The meeting agenda includes introductions, a presentation on an agriculture code of conduct toolkit, an overview of the Locus Charter, and a discussion for suggestions and contributions to further the charter.
The document discusses the relationship between the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)/Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). It provides an overview of the OGC, its standards and members. It also describes the Architecture Implementation Pilot, which develops and deploys new infrastructure components for GEOSS using OGC standards to improve data sharing and interoperability. The OGC supports GEO initiatives like the Appathon to encourage use of GEOSS and provide feedback to further standards development.
The document discusses the CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) initiative and how it aims to create a global infrastructure for linked open data. It describes how FAO has worked for decades to make agricultural information more accessible, including through programs like AGRIS and AIMS. The CIARD initiative now involves over 100 partners working to coordinate their efforts and promote common data formats and systems. It outlines FAO's work on vocabularies like AGROVOC and how linked open data can help link distributed data sources in agriculture through applying standards.
The Coast Guard is developing the WatchKeeper information management system to facilitate information sharing between maritime agencies as mandated by the SAFE Port Act of 2006. WatchKeeper faces challenges delivering capabilities on schedule and aligning with the Coast Guard's enterprise architecture. This thesis analyzes WatchKeeper's development approach and proposes applying practices like enterprise architecture, software architecture, and software architecture evaluation to provide structure and ensure the right capabilities are delivered. It also recommends a new approach focused on sharing valuable information over time rather than just functional requirements.
Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRFS)Blue BRIDGE
The Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF) is an inventory of global stocks and fisheries records from multiple data providers. It assigns unique identifiers to standardized stock and fishery identifications. The GRSF knowledge base collates data and assigns identifiers. It has achieved the development of two virtual research environments and uptake is being considered by the Fisheries Resources Monitoring System partnership. The outcome could include using unique identifiers for product labeling and supporting international goals. The exploitation plan is to gradually populate the GRSF and present it at the FAO Committee on Fisheries in 2018.
Convocatorias abiertas 7 pm energía, medio ambiente, tic'spnc2011
The document lists several open calls for proposals under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. It includes calls related to energy, environment, smart cities, ICT, and future internet technologies. The calls provide funding for research cooperation and cover a wide range of topics, such as energy efficiency, environmental protection, green transportation, and next generation networks. Deadlines to apply for the various calls range from late 2012 through early 2013.
This document discusses using Schema.org to describe marine data and link ocean data on the web. It provides background on linked data and Schema.org. It describes work done by various organizations to apply Schema.org to describe datasets, organizations, projects, and other marine data. This includes developing schemas and cataloging various types of marine data. Future work is discussed, such as supporting tabular data and linking to other vocabularies for different data types.
Using Erddap as a building block in Ireland's Integrated Digital OceanAdam Leadbetter
The document discusses using Erddap as part of Ireland's Integrated Digital Ocean platform. Erddap is used to aggregate data from various sources and provide it to users through standardized APIs and web interfaces. This allows diverse data and applications to interoperate through common access points and data flows, minimizing the distances between different technologies and systems. The Marine Institute of Ireland has implemented this approach to integrate ocean observation data and provide open access through their Digital Ocean portal.
The document discusses discovery in academia, including approaches that have been experimented with and lessons that have been learned. It notes that discovery is an area seeing global investment and outlines some future directions, including innovative cataloguing, linking data, enhanced shared services, and ensuring infrastructure, skills, and data are adequate to support discovery. The document provides several links to additional resources on topics related to academic discovery.
This document summarizes a presentation about transforming the web together through open data and standards. It discusses the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its role in developing open web standards. It provides examples of linked open data projects including data.gov and mashups of government data. Specific open data portals for cities like Chicago are highlighted. Semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, and SPARQL are referenced as working groups at W3C. Links are included to further resources on linked open data basics and news portals. The presentation concludes with mentioning Peter Mika from Yahoo discussing open data.
2015 FOSS4G Track: Open Specifications for the Storage, Transport and Process...GIS in the Rockies
This talk presents an overview of some of the most important Open Specifications (OS) for the storage, transport and processing of geospatial data and why they matter for the development of the next generation of geospatial systems and data infrastructures. What is the importance of being Open? What is the relationship of OS and geospatial software (both FOSS4G and private/proprietary software)? A Web-based system architecture based on OS and FOSS4G will be presented.
The Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) is an online network that makes marine and coastal data accessible by publishing data from various sectors and sources. It relies on data contributions from researchers and agencies but does not generate or store data itself. AODN is working to populate its portal with priority datasets like underway data and is developing a pilot regional node in Western Australia to engage cross-sector collaboration and data sharing in the marine community.
Towards Knowledge Graph based Representation, Augmentation and Exploration of...Sören Auer
This document discusses improving scholarly communication through knowledge graphs. It describes some current issues with scholarly communication like lack of structure, integration, and machine-readability. Knowledge graphs are proposed as a solution to represent scholarly concepts, publications, and data in a structured and linked manner. This would help address issues like reproducibility, duplication, and enable new ways of exploring and querying scholarly knowledge. The document outlines a ScienceGRAPH approach using cognitive knowledge graphs to represent scholarly knowledge at different levels of granularity and allow for intuitive exploration and question answering over semantic representations.
The document discusses open data and data visualization. It provides links to sites about open data related to development. It discusses the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard and examples of open data projects in Uganda and Malawi. It outlines elements of data visualization like time, location, topics, and networks. It provides examples of tools for getting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data. Finally, it lists tutorials and sites for learning more about data visualization and tools like Google Refine, Fusion Tables, and Gephi.
Ensuring that an organisation's digital assets are safe, secure and accessible for the long term should (in theory) be an interesting, responsible and useful role for anyone in an organisation to accept. The critical importance of digital assets, the ubiquity of digital methods and the need for people in all walks of life to have effective means to refer to persistent sources of data reinforce this notion. How is it then that long-term asset management, information lifecycle management, data curation, digital preservation (call it what you will) is often regarded as a peripheral specialist activity that it is diffcult to resource, complex to carry out, and delivers benefits that are, at best, simply an insurance policy rather than an activity that adds value to an organisation?
This presentation will examine the importance of defining clear roles for those involved with digital preservation and will consider the importance of associating this professional activity with strategic and tactical frameworks. It is likely that automated services will increasingly be required to deal with the collosal amount of digital information that will be produced and consumed over the next century and whilst the type and nature of these services are yet to be defined, we can be fairly certain of one endurng requirement, namely, that human judgement will always be needed to curate interesting and useful content for future generations.
The overall food system nearly reached the next strategic inflection point. IoT technology, data sharing and consumers’ demand for sustainable production methods are pushing limits. More than ever, agricultural production needs to deploy knowledge intensive farming practices and increase data sharing. Existing data exchange platforms need to become open data exchange ecosystems managing data owners’ consent and facilitate dynamic collaboration of stakeholders. This shall increase productivity and reduce food loss and waste of the circular food system from Farm2Fork.
FIWARE open-source software and agri-food data models are a cornerstone to facilitate this development. New sources of data can be made accessible, while decreasing effort for aggregating, processing, providing, and accessing data. This session is presenting different practical examples for data usage at the farm site and of partners collaborating along the food supply chain towards consumers helping them to learn about their choices.
The session will also summarise challenges and opportunities of the future of connected agriculture. This is specifically considering a technological perspective. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from different sectors and business domains, aiming at building the foundation of the future data economy for food systems. This will offer the opportunity to learn about synergies considering the close integration of agriculture in smart villages as well as advanced food production and delivery systems that are at the heart of smart cities.
Embedding open in the research training processDanny Kingsley
Abstract: Some institutions offer graduate training that sits alongside the master/apprentice system. But many rely on models such as the Vitae Researcher Development Framework that do not encompass many (or any) open concepts. This means the training of researchers in many of these spaces falls to library staff. From the academic side, grassroots organisations such as AIMOS or ANZORN offer a community for the interested. There are multiple sets of competencies developed for scholarly communication librarians, but these are not represented in any university library course in Australia. So those teaching the research community are relying on gathered skills and working without a standardised set of agreed
learnings for their target community. The result is haphazard and highly reliant on the skills of individuals at specific institutions. We are in need of some robust frameworks and standards. What are the minimum skills and knowledge we would expect of a graduate researcher in Australia when it comes to open? We are not starting from scratch, there are many organisations in Australia that have done work on some aspects of open training or skills. It is time for this to be brought into a cohesive and agreed standard we can all work towards.
This was a lightning talk given online to AIMOS2020 (https://aimos.community/2020-program-schedule)
Seabourne web apps 2014-2015
Data for Humans
We believe that every organization deserves to have its data projects delivered in a modern, well-executed, and predictable way.
LIBERATE YOUR DATA
At Seabourne we partner with our clients to design solutions that deliver business value to data-intensive organizations across many industries (government, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, non-profit, energy, and more).
DATA VISUALIZATION
Seabourne turns complex data into insight-rich information tools for you, your organization, or millions of public users. We use an array of proven pre-built modules making interactive data visuals highly customizable as well cost-effective compared to pre-built vendor and built-from-scratch tools. See DataDash for more details.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Modern organizations use software to organize their operations and to capture their proprietary processes. Such data-intensive software applications organize, analyze, and automate business processes. We build products and solutions for our clients that leverage the value of their data and rationalize their proprietary processes.
DATA INTEGRATION
Organizations can only reap the benefits of software when the data they need is easily accessible. We make data accessible to our clients and their favorite applications (business intelligence, CRM, business software, websites, APIs, and more) by integrating, enriching, migrating, cleansing, publishing and liberating data sources of all types.
Online Video Trends 2015: Personal & Business UseWePow
The document discusses how visual content and online video have become increasingly important forms of communication. It provides statistics that show people retain information better from visual content compared to text, with 80% of information transmitted to the brain being visual. Online video usage has skyrocketed in recent years, with over 12.5 days of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Many businesses are now using video conferencing and online video for tasks like interviews and training in order to improve processes and reduce costs. As visual processing is faster than reading, video has become a key medium for communication and collaboration.
A presentation given as part of the DC101 training course run by the DCC at Oxford University in June 2010. The course provided data management guidance for researchers.
This document provides a collection of links to resources for digital projects. It includes general digital preservation resources from Cornell University, the Digital Library Federation, and the Library of Congress. Standards resources cover Dublin Core metadata elements, digital imaging best practices, and technical guidelines for digitizing archival materials. The document also lists grants, continuing education sources, copyright guidance, and digital library software.
This document provides information about a Data Ethics Think Tank meeting to develop an international charter on the ethical use of location data called the Locus Charter. Representatives from various government agencies and universities from around the world plan to contribute ideas to support the development of the Locus Charter. The meeting agenda includes introductions, a presentation on an agriculture code of conduct toolkit, an overview of the Locus Charter, and a discussion for suggestions and contributions to further the charter.
The document discusses the relationship between the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)/Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). It provides an overview of the OGC, its standards and members. It also describes the Architecture Implementation Pilot, which develops and deploys new infrastructure components for GEOSS using OGC standards to improve data sharing and interoperability. The OGC supports GEO initiatives like the Appathon to encourage use of GEOSS and provide feedback to further standards development.
The document discusses the CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) initiative and how it aims to create a global infrastructure for linked open data. It describes how FAO has worked for decades to make agricultural information more accessible, including through programs like AGRIS and AIMS. The CIARD initiative now involves over 100 partners working to coordinate their efforts and promote common data formats and systems. It outlines FAO's work on vocabularies like AGROVOC and how linked open data can help link distributed data sources in agriculture through applying standards.
The Coast Guard is developing the WatchKeeper information management system to facilitate information sharing between maritime agencies as mandated by the SAFE Port Act of 2006. WatchKeeper faces challenges delivering capabilities on schedule and aligning with the Coast Guard's enterprise architecture. This thesis analyzes WatchKeeper's development approach and proposes applying practices like enterprise architecture, software architecture, and software architecture evaluation to provide structure and ensure the right capabilities are delivered. It also recommends a new approach focused on sharing valuable information over time rather than just functional requirements.
Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRFS)Blue BRIDGE
The Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF) is an inventory of global stocks and fisheries records from multiple data providers. It assigns unique identifiers to standardized stock and fishery identifications. The GRSF knowledge base collates data and assigns identifiers. It has achieved the development of two virtual research environments and uptake is being considered by the Fisheries Resources Monitoring System partnership. The outcome could include using unique identifiers for product labeling and supporting international goals. The exploitation plan is to gradually populate the GRSF and present it at the FAO Committee on Fisheries in 2018.
Convocatorias abiertas 7 pm energía, medio ambiente, tic'spnc2011
The document lists several open calls for proposals under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. It includes calls related to energy, environment, smart cities, ICT, and future internet technologies. The calls provide funding for research cooperation and cover a wide range of topics, such as energy efficiency, environmental protection, green transportation, and next generation networks. Deadlines to apply for the various calls range from late 2012 through early 2013.
This document discusses using Schema.org to describe marine data and link ocean data on the web. It provides background on linked data and Schema.org. It describes work done by various organizations to apply Schema.org to describe datasets, organizations, projects, and other marine data. This includes developing schemas and cataloging various types of marine data. Future work is discussed, such as supporting tabular data and linking to other vocabularies for different data types.
Using Erddap as a building block in Ireland's Integrated Digital OceanAdam Leadbetter
The document discusses using Erddap as part of Ireland's Integrated Digital Ocean platform. Erddap is used to aggregate data from various sources and provide it to users through standardized APIs and web interfaces. This allows diverse data and applications to interoperate through common access points and data flows, minimizing the distances between different technologies and systems. The Marine Institute of Ireland has implemented this approach to integrate ocean observation data and provide open access through their Digital Ocean portal.
Where Linked Data meets Big Data: Applying standard data models to environmen...Adam Leadbetter
This document discusses applying standard data models to environmental data streams from ocean observations. It presents examples of encoding oceanographic observation data using semantic web standards like the W3C Observation and Measurement ontology. These approaches aim to integrate live sensor data with linked open data to support interoperability across scientific domains.
A lecture to the National University of Ireland, Galway honours year and masters students in oceanography (14th November 2016) on the basics of marine data management.
Linked Ocean Data - Exploring connections between marine datasets in a Big Da...Adam Leadbetter
Adam Leadbetter works for the Marine Institute in Ireland and is interested in data management, oceanography, and long-distance running. The document provides his contact information and describes his interests using RDF triples. It also includes several links to resources about ocean data, sensors, observations, and semantic web standards for observational data.
Adam Leadbetter is an expert in data management, oceanography, and long-distance running who works for the Marine Institute in Ireland. He is interested in connecting ocean data and emerging technologies to advance oceanography.
Ocean Data Interoperability Platform - Vocabularies: DOIs for NVS Controlled ...Adam Leadbetter
Ocean Data Interoperability Platform
A short presentation as a discussion starter. How might we implement Persistent Identifiers for the SKOS Concepts in hte NERC Vocabulary Server?
A presentation to the Research Vessel Users Workshop at the Marine Institute, Ireland on 28th April 2016. Highlighting recent progress and future directions in managing data from the fleet.
Lecture to the Ocean Teacher Global Academy course on Research Data Management in November 2015. Topics covered include the history of data formats in marine data management; introduction to the Semantic Web and Linked Data; current state of the art in Linked Ocean Data; and future research directions in Linked Data and Big Data combinations.
Let's talk about data: Citation and publicationAdam Leadbetter
This document discusses citation and publication of data from various marine research organizations. It provides links to sites hosting Irish marine data and research on data infrastructure. It addresses issues like making data openly accessible, ensuring catalogue entries are citable, and having organizational policies for persistent storage. The document asks for questions and lists upcoming workshops to further discuss working with marine research data.
A 5-minute lightning talk at the 2015 INFOMAR seminar, highlighting the concept and public demonstrator for Ireland's Digital Ocean concept: moving beyond data cataloguing to a coherent platform for exploring marine data and information.
Ocean Data Interoperability Platform - Big Data - Streams & WorkflowsAdam Leadbetter
This document summarizes differences between 20th century and 21st century data processing approaches. In the 20th century, single machines were used for one-to-one communication with fixed schemas and encodings, while the 21st century utilizes distributed processing with publish-subscribe patterns, replication for fault tolerance, and schema management with evolvable encodings. It also lists further work such as investigating architectures for reprocessing historic data, incorporating standards like Sensor Web Enablement and OM-JSON, deploying to mobile/remote platforms, and investigating Apache NiFi.
Vocabulary Services in EMODNet and SeaDataNetAdam Leadbetter
Presentation to the Climate Information Portal (CLIP-C) workshop on developing scientific data portals.
Covering why vocabularies; history of vocabularies in marine data management; overview of vocabulary usage in faceted search
This document discusses linking oceanographic data on the web. It provides several examples of URLs and metadata for ocean data, instruments, and projects. It also lists the LinkedOceanData GitHub page, which aims to serve datasets and publish ocean data on the web for increased access and reuse. The author is identified as Adam Leadbetter from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
The document discusses oceans of data and provides information about ocean data networks and centers like OceanNet, SeaDataNet, and IODE. It emphasizes the importance of serving datasets to users, properly citing datasets, and publishing datasets to make them accessible and usable by others. Contact information is provided for the author Adam Leadbetter from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Anti-Universe And Emergent Gravity and the Dark UniverseSérgio Sacani
Recent theoretical progress indicates that spacetime and gravity emerge together from the entanglement structure of an underlying microscopic theory. These ideas are best understood in Anti-de Sitter space, where they rely on the area law for entanglement entropy. The extension to de Sitter space requires taking into account the entropy and temperature associated with the cosmological horizon. Using insights from string theory, black hole physics and quantum information theory we argue that the positive dark energy leads to a thermal volume law contribution to the entropy that overtakes the area law precisely at the cosmological horizon. Due to the competition between area and volume law entanglement the microscopic de Sitter states do not thermalise at sub-Hubble scales: they exhibit memory effects in the form of an entropy displacement caused by matter. The emergent laws of gravity contain an additional ‘dark’ gravitational force describing the ‘elastic’ response due to the entropy displacement. We derive an estimate of the strength of this extra force in terms of the baryonic mass, Newton’s constant and the Hubble acceleration scale a0 = cH0, and provide evidence for the fact that this additional ‘dark gravity force’ explains the observed phenomena in galaxies and clusters currently attributed to dark matter.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
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Targeting Hsp90 and its pathogen Orthologs with Tethered Inhibitors as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategy for cancer and infectious diseases with Dr. Timothy Haystead.
Candidate young stellar objects in the S-cluster: Kinematic analysis of a sub...Sérgio Sacani
Context. The observation of several L-band emission sources in the S cluster has led to a rich discussion of their nature. However, a definitive answer to the classification of the dusty objects requires an explanation for the detection of compact Doppler-shifted Brγ emission. The ionized hydrogen in combination with the observation of mid-infrared L-band continuum emission suggests that most of these sources are embedded in a dusty envelope. These embedded sources are part of the S-cluster, and their relationship to the S-stars is still under debate. To date, the question of the origin of these two populations has been vague, although all explanations favor migration processes for the individual cluster members. Aims. This work revisits the S-cluster and its dusty members orbiting the supermassive black hole SgrA* on bound Keplerian orbits from a kinematic perspective. The aim is to explore the Keplerian parameters for patterns that might imply a nonrandom distribution of the sample. Additionally, various analytical aspects are considered to address the nature of the dusty sources. Methods. Based on the photometric analysis, we estimated the individual H−K and K−L colors for the source sample and compared the results to known cluster members. The classification revealed a noticeable contrast between the S-stars and the dusty sources. To fit the flux-density distribution, we utilized the radiative transfer code HYPERION and implemented a young stellar object Class I model. We obtained the position angle from the Keplerian fit results; additionally, we analyzed the distribution of the inclinations and the longitudes of the ascending node. Results. The colors of the dusty sources suggest a stellar nature consistent with the spectral energy distribution in the near and midinfrared domains. Furthermore, the evaporation timescales of dusty and gaseous clumps in the vicinity of SgrA* are much shorter ( 2yr) than the epochs covered by the observations (≈15yr). In addition to the strong evidence for the stellar classification of the D-sources, we also find a clear disk-like pattern following the arrangements of S-stars proposed in the literature. Furthermore, we find a global intrinsic inclination for all dusty sources of 60 ± 20◦, implying a common formation process. Conclusions. The pattern of the dusty sources manifested in the distribution of the position angles, inclinations, and longitudes of the ascending node strongly suggests two different scenarios: the main-sequence stars and the dusty stellar S-cluster sources share a common formation history or migrated with a similar formation channel in the vicinity of SgrA*. Alternatively, the gravitational influence of SgrA* in combination with a massive perturber, such as a putative intermediate mass black hole in the IRS 13 cluster, forces the dusty objects and S-stars to follow a particular orbital arrangement. Key words. stars: black holes– stars: formation– Galaxy: center– galaxies: star formation
Evidence of Jet Activity from the Secondary Black Hole in the OJ 287 Binary S...Sérgio Sacani
Wereport the study of a huge optical intraday flare on 2021 November 12 at 2 a.m. UT in the blazar OJ287. In the binary black hole model, it is associated with an impact of the secondary black hole on the accretion disk of the primary. Our multifrequency observing campaign was set up to search for such a signature of the impact based on a prediction made 8 yr earlier. The first I-band results of the flare have already been reported by Kishore et al. (2024). Here we combine these data with our monitoring in the R-band. There is a big change in the R–I spectral index by 1.0 ±0.1 between the normal background and the flare, suggesting a new component of radiation. The polarization variation during the rise of the flare suggests the same. The limits on the source size place it most reasonably in the jet of the secondary BH. We then ask why we have not seen this phenomenon before. We show that OJ287 was never before observed with sufficient sensitivity on the night when the flare should have happened according to the binary model. We also study the probability that this flare is just an oversized example of intraday variability using the Krakow data set of intense monitoring between 2015 and 2023. We find that the occurrence of a flare of this size and rapidity is unlikely. In machine-readable Tables 1 and 2, we give the full orbit-linked historical light curve of OJ287 as well as the dense monitoring sample of Krakow.
JAMES WEBB STUDY THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE SEEDSSérgio Sacani
The pathway(s) to seeding the massive black holes (MBHs) that exist at the heart of galaxies in the present and distant Universe remains an unsolved problem. Here we categorise, describe and quantitatively discuss the formation pathways of both light and heavy seeds. We emphasise that the most recent computational models suggest that rather than a bimodal-like mass spectrum between light and heavy seeds with light at one end and heavy at the other that instead a continuum exists. Light seeds being more ubiquitous and the heavier seeds becoming less and less abundant due the rarer environmental conditions required for their formation. We therefore examine the different mechanisms that give rise to different seed mass spectrums. We show how and why the mechanisms that produce the heaviest seeds are also among the rarest events in the Universe and are hence extremely unlikely to be the seeds for the vast majority of the MBH population. We quantify, within the limits of the current large uncertainties in the seeding processes, the expected number densities of the seed mass spectrum. We argue that light seeds must be at least 103 to 105 times more numerous than heavy seeds to explain the MBH population as a whole. Based on our current understanding of the seed population this makes heavy seeds (Mseed > 103 M⊙) a significantly more likely pathway given that heavy seeds have an abundance pattern than is close to and likely in excess of 10−4 compared to light seeds. Finally, we examine the current state-of-the-art in numerical calculations and recent observations and plot a path forward for near-future advances in both domains.
Microbial interaction
Microorganisms interacts with each other and can be physically associated with another organisms in a variety of ways.
One organism can be located on the surface of another organism as an ectobiont or located within another organism as endobiont.
Microbial interaction may be positive such as mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism or may be negative such as parasitism, predation or competition
Types of microbial interaction
Positive interaction: mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism
Negative interaction: Ammensalism (antagonism), parasitism, predation, competition
I. Mutualism:
It is defined as the relationship in which each organism in interaction gets benefits from association. It is an obligatory relationship in which mutualist and host are metabolically dependent on each other.
Mutualistic relationship is very specific where one member of association cannot be replaced by another species.
Mutualism require close physical contact between interacting organisms.
Relationship of mutualism allows organisms to exist in habitat that could not occupied by either species alone.
Mutualistic relationship between organisms allows them to act as a single organism.
Examples of mutualism:
i. Lichens:
Lichens are excellent example of mutualism.
They are the association of specific fungi and certain genus of algae. In lichen, fungal partner is called mycobiont and algal partner is called
II. Syntrophism:
It is an association in which the growth of one organism either depends on or improved by the substrate provided by another organism.
In syntrophism both organism in association gets benefits.
Compound A
Utilized by population 1
Compound B
Utilized by population 2
Compound C
utilized by both Population 1+2
Products
In this theoretical example of syntrophism, population 1 is able to utilize and metabolize compound A, forming compound B but cannot metabolize beyond compound B without co-operation of population 2. Population 2is unable to utilize compound A but it can metabolize compound B forming compound C. Then both population 1 and 2 are able to carry out metabolic reaction which leads to formation of end product that neither population could produce alone.
Examples of syntrophism:
i. Methanogenic ecosystem in sludge digester
Methane produced by methanogenic bacteria depends upon interspecies hydrogen transfer by other fermentative bacteria.
Anaerobic fermentative bacteria generate CO2 and H2 utilizing carbohydrates which is then utilized by methanogenic bacteria (Methanobacter) to produce methane.
ii. Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis:
In the minimal media, Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis are able to grow together but not alone.
The synergistic relationship between E. faecalis and L. arobinosus occurs in which E. faecalis require folic acid
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How do you know your food is safe?
Last Friday was world World Food Safety Day, facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in which the slogan rightly says, 'food safety is everyone's business'. Due to this, I thought it would be worth sharing some data that I have worked on in this field!
Working at Markes International has really opened my eyes (and unfortunately my friends and family 🤣) to food safety and quality, especially with my recent application work on ethylene oxide and 2-chloroethanol residues in foodstuffs, as of the biggest global food recalls in history was and is still being implemented by the Rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) in 2021, for high levels of these carcinogenic compounds.
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Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
1. United by a common language
The evolution of controlled vocabularies in managing oceanographic data
Adam Leadbetter
Team Leader for Data Management
Marine Institute, Oranmore, Galway
Data Science Institute, NUI Galway - 2nd July 2020
1/23
14. BODC Parameter
Usage Vocabulary (P01)
SeaDataN et Parameter
Discovery Vocabulary
(P02)
SeaDataN et Agreed
Parameter Groups
(P03)
SeaDataN et Disciplines
(P08)
Climate and Forecast
Standard Names(P07)
GEMET INSPIRE
Themes(P22)
ISO Topic Categories
(P05)
MSFD Indicators(C47)
MSFD Criteria (C46)
MSFD Descriptors
(C45)
E.g. PSLT ZZ01: Practical
salinity of the water body
E.g. PSAL: Salinity of the
water column
E.g. 28: Oceanographic
geographical features
E.g. 14: Oceans
E.g. IN 1_6_3: Physical,
hydrological and chemical
conditions
E.g. C1_6: Habitat condition
E.g. D1: Biological diversity
maintained
E.g. D025: W ater column
temperature and salinity
E.g. DS03: Physical
oceanography
21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2015.1033483
Daily meanSurface elevation
Water body
Metres Unspecified datum
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/TEMPPR01/
Temperature
Water body
Degrees Celsius
Sea-Bird SBE 37 {MicroCAT-CTP} (submersible) CTD logger series
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL1393/
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/standard_name/sea_water_temperature/
Temperature
Sea water
Degrees Kelvin
23. United by a common language
The evolution of controlled vocabularies in managing oceanographic data
Adam Leadbetter
adam.leadbetter@marine.ie
@AdamLeadbetter
23/23