[ckan-discuss] Suggested Researchers Tool: can it work on CKAN?

Mon Oct 1 12:53:52 BST 2012

Thanks Nick,

I'll look into Orbital, too.

Has anyone else got any ideas about a researcher toolkit/scrapbook for collecting, categorising, and sharing data on-the-go?

Cheers,
-Z

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Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais
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On 26 Sep 2012, at 21:47, Nick Jackson <nijackson at lincoln.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is actually something we'd be really interested in as part of the Orbital project (http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk), since we've got a 'raw data first' approach, using the DataStore APIs to hold data coming straight from sensors (along with some origin metadata) and then allow later annotation.
> 
> The jet turbine engines we're currently working with are slightly different from animals, but I'd certainly be interested in a hackday because at the end of the day data is data.
> 
> Nick Jackson
> Lead Web Developer
> Orbital Project • CERD
> 
> Telephone: 01522 886500
> Email: nijackson at lincoln.ac.uk
> University of Lincoln
> Brayford Pool
> Lincoln LN6 7TS
> 
> On 26 Sep 2012, at 20:30, Zach Beauvais <z.beauvais at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please forgive me if this is out of the blue, or cross-purposes with the list.
>> 
>> My wife is a veterinary epidemiologist, and suggested I ask my data-head friends about a tool she would like to be able to use. What she suggested—a tool for annotation and sharing data—sounded immediately to me like it could work on top of CKAN.
>> 
>> I've created a google doc for it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvF4cIuvx2QpO8uUoqTCKG48h2ncYnp3k4OdX9_V69w/edit
>> 
>> The gist being: 
>> 
>> So, the Research Data Scrapbook would allow researchers to keep records of fully-searchable and shareable raw data, and to annotate the actual data with labels such as the source of the information. These labels would enable additional, ad-hoc fields of data, and become part of the metadata being stored.
>> 
>> So, my initial thoughts are that this could be something related to existing projects (though which, I can't think of…), and it could be a proposal for a hackday's work.
>> 
>> I am thinking of helping to run a vet/public-health hackday at or near the RVC in London to help my wife's epidemiological friends, and introduce them to the world of open, interesting developers.
>> 
>> So: any ideas?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -Z
>> 
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