After my flight from Chicago to Madison was cancelled due to severe thunderstorms, I was reschedule for a flight that left at 7:25am but without accommodations provided. I therefore opted to take a bus that left at 11pm and I am now back home 16 hours after I started traveling Continue reading 2AM, June 9, 2011 – Traveling Complete
LOD4DataONE Summer Intern Mentor Plan Intern: Aída Gándara: a doctoral student from The Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso and a research student at Cyber-ShARE. Primary Mentor: Hilmar Lapp: from The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). The Linked Open Data DataONE Summer Internship Mentor Continue reading Mentor Plan
I’m currently sitting at the Seattle SEATAC airport after spending a very productive 2 days with Heather in Bellingham, WA. I’m hoping that the forecast thunderstorms in Madison don’t prevent me from getting in tonight at 10:30.
I have been trying out this package recently for some other projects. There are several functions (e.g. PD, PSV, etc) that are very handy for looking at phylogenetic structure of the species in different communities — alpha and beta diversity. I think this will be a good tool for the Continue reading Useful R package: picante
Definitions of data: 1. Data can be the lowest level of abstraction. Data on its own carries no meaning but for data to become information, it must be interpreted (Wikipedia). 2. Data sets: Collection of data in tabular form. Ecologists’ basic measurements. 3. Data Products: Eg. NEON names 5 data Continue reading Start of Data research
Yesterday evening, I searched Google Scholar for the DOIs of the Pangaea datasets. The results and search terms for this can be found in the Google Spreadsheet. I found that 6.8 percent of datsets in Pangea had a hit on Google Scholar based on its DOI. We decided that Mendeley Continue reading June 7, 2011 – Morning update
I am at University of Oldenburg, which is actually Carl von Ossietsky University of Oldenburg, in Oldenburg, Germany. I will give a talk this afternoon, about using phylogeny to understand biodiversity patterns, mainly from my PhD dissertation project. I have emailed Charles Nunn again and will post again if there’s Continue reading Seminar today
We are calling articles that are reusing data “Data Reuse Articles.” What should we call articles that cite the Data Collection Article but do not reuse the data? In my preliminary searches I referred to these as “Doesn’t Reuse Data.” Some of our other suggestions: Only Cited By Reuse Candidate Continue reading Seeking Nomenclature Feedback 2
What should we call the journal article which describes the collection of the data in a dataset and most likely the first article for which the data was used. A few suggestions follow: Article of Reference Data Collection Paper Original Data Article Data Submission Paper We are currently using “Data Continue reading Seeking Nomenclature Feedback 1
This morning Heather and I met in sunny Bellingham, WA to hack out the details of this research project. A running document can be found here. We are starting with 3 repositories: Pangaea, TreeBase and GEO in order to put a poster abstract together for the ASIS&T conference poster submission Continue reading June 6, 2011 – Planning Meeting