drupal for scientists intro
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Next Generation Web-based Collaborationamong Latin American Lidar communities
Martn Cadirola, Ecotronics, USAElin Wolfram, CEILAP, Argentina
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Agenda
Who Motivation Goals How Next steps
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Be Bold
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Be Bold
Words of wisdom from Dr. Harvey Melfi
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Martn
Loves lidar engineering Designs and builds web software Enjoys kayaking Loves innovation even more
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Elin
Avid learner The atmosphere rocks Enjoys kite surfing Loves science even more
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Background
GiovanniAeronetMPLNet
Web presence and functionality is not necessarily a money issue
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Now
Web
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Each group publishes their data Fragmented publication platforms Limited collaboration
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What if
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Additional Thoughts
Activity Currently 2020 Vision
Who develops thesoftware tools to processlidar data?
Each group developstheir own
Each group developcomponents that arevalidated with each
other's
Sharing softwarelibraries
Limited Available online
When somebody leavesa group, software toolsare...
Difficult to maintain Maintained, enhanced,updated, upgraded
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Reality check
Scientists + Engineers + Students
Web PortalWeb Portal
Collaboration PlatformCollaboration Platform
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What if
We create a collaboration platform leveraging open source technologyand latest web-based tools for our Latin American network
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Platform Goals
Visualize Standardize Search
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Visualize
2D plots Radio sonde comparisons 3D plots
Multi-instrument comparisons Google Earth output Interactive diagrams
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Standardize
Lidar or instrument data is generally available in ASCII What happens when we share? XML, NetCDF, HDF Lidar data reporting guidelines are being created GEOMS+ We need web-based, data conversion tools in Latin America
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Search
Date start, date end Location Tag or keyword Instrument, not just lidar Aerosol parameter X,
between 1 and 3 km Other user rules Google-friendly data SEO
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It's 2012
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Web Development
Visualization
Code Maintenance
Scalable Hosting
drupal
GIT
Amazon
jQuery
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drupal
Fast deployment Module development
High learning curve We can help
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jQuery
Fast visualization libraries Interactive on web page Integrated as part of Drupal
modules
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GIT
Repositories Commit Tagging Branching Sharing
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drupal
Putting it all together
Drupal modules
Provides the core functionality to supportuser registration, definition of workflow rules,multi-user publishing and more
Based on PHP, maintained with GIT,Useful for import/export data as web service,UI interfacing, advanced search of data,and more
Scientists interact with portal, uploading data,generating metadata, interacting withother groups, searching and looking at othergroup's instruments' data
Core + basic modules
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We can do it
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Next Steps
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Training (Martn) Define Functional Specs (Elin) Building in Phases (Martn + Elin + You) Growing (Forum, Wiki, Webinars and more)
Next steps
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Now
Web
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Each group publishes their data Fragmented publication platforms Limited collaboration
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Soon
Web
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Each group publishes their data Standardized collaboration platform Enhanced collaboration
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Next
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Each group publishes their data Standardized collaboration platform Enhanced collaboration Multi-instrument data management
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Results-oriented
Integrate lidar groups across LatAm
More students join our field More innovation More science!
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Let's be Bold!
more at www ecotronics com/conferencia-lidar-bolivia