June 23, 2011 – Pangaea Data Collection

Today I was able to start the data collection/tracking for the Word of Science citations of the Data Collection Article.  For a reminder, we previously collected all of the citations for articles that have cited the data collection article for each of the datasets in all repositories.  Heather completed a Continue reading June 23, 2011 – Pangaea Data Collection

Ideas for Dividing up the field

ESA Sections (where potentially relevant): Applied Ecology, Agroecology, Aquatic Ecology, Biogeosciences, Long-Term Studies, Microbial Ecology, Natural History, Paleoecology, Physiological Ecology, Plant Population Ecology, Rangeland Ecology, Soil Ecology, Statistical Ecology, Theoretical Ecology, Urban Ecosystem Ecology, Vegetation Section Ecology Departments at universities: The field and area of research an individual ecologists describes Continue reading Ideas for Dividing up the field

A rough overview of the project trajectory

First, we need to decide on what data we are interested in estimating. We have restricted this to raw data data generated for publication in journals data generated by academic researchers and their laboratories Second, we need to estimate the amount of data generated. Recognizing how many disparate types of Continue reading A rough overview of the project trajectory

June 21, 2011 – Tracking Protein Data Bank

Today was spent tracking the Protein Data Bank (PDB) datasets.  As Heather had predicted, there were quite a few more hits than the previous data repositories (670 citations).  The search terms used and search results can be seen in this Google Spreadsheet.  As Heather predicted such a large amount of Continue reading June 21, 2011 – Tracking Protein Data Bank