At first it seemed impossible, too amazing to be true, and she assumed she’d misunderstood. With the help of a translator, she was teaching a field course for students in a country whose native language she could not speak. Surely either she or the translator had heard incorrectly. But when Continue reading The Case of the Missing Research Protocol
The main focus of this week was to build PBase main repository, set up the development environment, and get more familiar with the format of Cypher queries. The first thing to do was to translate workflow provenance traces to a Neo4j compatible format. Some of the approaches are: Neo4j Import Continue reading Week 3: Creating PBase Repository and Working on Queries
At the end of last week I was trying to find a related ontology to enable subtopic matching. However, after some failed attempts, it became clear that until we made an ontology from the whole corpus and not just a part (remember a few weeks ago I talked about memory Continue reading Subtopics
My internship “to do” list has four main categories: practitioner guide, web content, academic paper, and other (it’s not a true exhaustive classification scheme). I’ve made substantial progress in three of these four categories over the last two weeks. In terms of the practitioner guide, perhaps the main deliverable of Continue reading Getting things done
I apologize for not blogging last week. I was at the SoCS PI conference in Seattle as the student representative of my research group’s grant, learning a lot about different areas of social computing and the larger paradigm of academia. I’ll use this blog post to briefly review what I Continue reading Reflections on SoCS
I spent the last couple days working on a system for scoring and classifying metadictionary terms with reputation based crowd-sourcing. It’s hard to succinctly describe the goals of the system I’m proposing, but I’ll try: Each newly proposed term should have an equal chance of succeeding, despite reputation. At the Continue reading Scoring and reputation in the metadictionary
Earlier this week I conducted my first data stories interview. Up to this point, I have mostly been immersed in the story writing side of the project, so it was great to be involved in the story collection process. My first interviewee was very pleasant and easy to talk with. Continue reading Week 5: Interview With A Researcher
The SeaIce metadictionary is now complete with a robust term/definition search engine and a commenting feature. We are now ready to begin populating the database with real terms. There are potentially a number of interface design improvements that could be implemented; fortunately, there should be time towards the end of Continue reading Week 4 – new site features, beginning crowd-sourcing
One major goal of my summer intern is to develop a package with a set of basic modules for model data inter-comparison. With the newly added two modules this week, the package can almost function now. That means we can start to build some useful provenance-aware workflows with the package. Continue reading Close to a Functional Package
Having concluded last week that apart from Falcon-AO, it is imperative to explore other approaches/algorithms, I started working on AROMA (Association Rule Ontology Matching Approach). It is a hybrid, extensional and asymmetric matching approach which allows to match not only equivalence relations but also subsumption relations between entities, i.e. classes Continue reading Working with AROMA & Progress with Falcon-AO