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From: Jessel, Tanner Monroe
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:22 PM
To: Dave Vieglais; Mitchell, Chad Matthew
Cc: Amber E Budden
Subject: Request for File โ DataONE users
Hello Dave,
Iโm a Masters candidate in Information Science at UT-Knoxville working as a GRA on the DataONE project with Dr. Tenopir.
Iโm working on a research question regarding social networks and influence within the DataONE user community.
Poking around on the DataONE docs.dataone.org site, I found a document youโd created in October of 2011 that I believe will be helpful in exploring this topic.
Itโs called “List of DataONE users and groups” and apparently was created using a python script.
The exact filename is 2011025_dataone_users.xls
I found this file under “Project Information” <https://docs.dataone.org/member-area/project-information> on the main navigation menu of the DataONE docs site.
The download URL for the document is located on this page: https://docs.dataone.org/member-area/project-information/d1_users.xls/view, along with this description:
This spreadsheet lists members of DataONE, their group memberships and mailing list memberships. It is generated by the python script located in subversion software/tools/trunk/listusers/listusers.py executed with the command: python listusers.py -x file_name
Iโm interested in this file as a view of historic membership of the DataONE community, but Iโm also interested in re-creating the file to reflect current membership on the docs.dataone.org site.
Iโm working with Chad Mitchell, another Masters candidate and research assistant at
UT-Knoxville.
He has some experience with python and Iโm curious as well โ if itโs possible for you to share, weโd like to learn how to generate a new file reflecting current membership.
Is this something that we or someone on the Dev team would have access to?
Barring re-creating your methods, weโd appreciate if you could supply us with a 2012 version of the d1_users.xls file.
Thanks for any help,
Tanner
Tanner Jessel
Graduate Research Assistant:
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
http://www.dataone.org
