XGrid --- The Grid of the Future / Past
XGrid!XGrid is a cluster computing technology developed by Apple Inc. and up until Mac Os 10.7 (Lion) It comes shipped and supported on every Mac. This default installation is what has helped XGrid...
View ArticleMusings on Galaxy #1
Galaxy!The final frontier is here and its dressed up in a web framework for biomedical research named Galaxy. As we stand at the crossroads between 2012/2013 the world is more technologically...
View ArticleVIVO data ingest: The basics
Coming from a background of knowing very little to nothing about the semantic web, RDF and SPARQL, I have perhaps had a steeper learning curve than most. To help people who would be starting at a very...
View ArticleOpen Research
Start: 06/02/2013 09:00 End: 06/02/2013 09:00 Start: 06/02/2013 09:00 End: 06/02/2013 09:00 Open Research is a conference being held in Auckland on 6-7 Feburary 2013. Here is a small blurb from the...
View ArticleData migration from NESSTAR to Dataverse and the progress so far!
INTRODUCTION:New Zealand Social Science Data Service(NZSSDS) administered and maintained by COMPASS and is built around an architecture based on Australian Data Archive (ADA) and NESSTAR (a proprietary...
View ArticleIEEE eScience 2013
Start: 23/10/2013 09:00 End: 23/10/2013 09:00 Start: 23/10/2013 09:00 End: 23/10/2013 09:00 IEEE eSciencce 2013 will continue the tradition of manyexcellentconferences held internationally over the...
View ArticleHathiTrust Non-consumptive Research Pilot: Analysing the New Zealand Corpus
Arrived in Auckland on Friday. What more could I ask for? Beautiful weather (well, at least for the first two days), a fantastic city (or so say my first impressions), and an interesting project to...
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Overall Achievements Before Christmas Holiday
This is a follow-up to the Audio Geotagging Summer of eResearch project. I have been able to implement lots of functionality but I'm looking forward to a break.Users are able to create a new interview...
View ArticleCCGrid 2013
Start: 13/05/2013 09:00 End: 16/05/2013 17:00 Start: 13/05/2013 09:00 End: 16/05/2013 17:00 The 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013) will be held at...
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A Climate Database Web Service: 1st Review
The first week before the break I spent some efforts to integrate my software development project into NIWA’s software development process and environment. So it is ensured that once I have finished...
View ArticleMy Christmas Break.
Hi All I hope everyone had a great christmas.Over the break I set myself two goals Learn Ruby on Rails and Get a patch accepted to a open source project and it seems I achieved both of them. This blog...
View ArticleA side note on geospatial data sharing and spatial data infrastructures (SDI)
This blog post is dedicated to provide a general overview over the field of geospatial and environmental data sharing. The term geospatial is actually tautologous: The prefix "geo" implies geography,...
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Dataverse Network Application First Impressions, Post Installation Beta mode^...
This is my second post after a long time and covers a lot of updates. After completing scoping and setting goals for the project before the break, i started the installation and configuration of...
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Usability Testing
Usability and user testing is a significant part of the proposal for this project.Here is what I did this week.== INTERVIEWS ==I interviewed four people (two friends & two students) for five...
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SOS for CLIDB: Mid-term - we got data
Last week finally the customised data backend integration is pretty much aligned with the basic SOS operations and we can see what's in the database (GetCapabilities) and actually get data out of it...
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Audiogeotagger Documentation
1. Introduction1.1 PurposeThe main objective of this project is to design and develop an android tablet application for audio geo-tagging, which enables users to record where and when users touch a map...
View ArticleSummer of eResearch 2012/2013 Final Presentations
Start: 21/02/2013 10:00 End: 21/02/2013 16:30 Start: 21/02/2013 10:00 End: 21/02/2013 16:30 Victoria University of Wellington is hosting the Final Presentations of Summer for eResearch 2012/2013. Each...
View ArticleThe non-Google public domain dataset
For the past few weeks I've been working with the HathiTrust's 300,000 document non-Google digitized public domain collection. It's easy enough to get your hands on the dataset; it is, after all,...
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Big Process for Big Data - Ian Foster
Start: 20/02/2013 11:59 End: 20/02/2013 13:00 Start: 20/02/2013 11:59 End: 20/02/2013 13:00 Ian Foster, distinguished scientist from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, will be...
View ArticleeResearch NZ 2013
Start: 02/07/2013 End: 04/07/2013 Start: 02/07/2013 End: 04/07/2013 eResearch NZ aims to facilitate connections between researchers and eScience practitioners, to share practice, and establish shared...
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