Enhancing Research Projects with Environmental Informatics and Web Technologies
Overview
Static versus Dynamic Research Projects only Powerpoint slides Pdf reports Sharing/publication only of final results + shared web workspaces Screencasts, WebEx Multi-author content creation Sharing/publication of workflow (data to information) Static Dynamic
What does the Web bring to Research? Sharing and communication of research from initial to interim to final results Connections to related research and researchers Easier ways to document, augment and archive the research project Richer research team interactions
Environmental Informatics The science, engineering and practice of the creation, exchange and use of data, information and knowledge relevant to environmental researchers, managers and the interested public. Cross-disciplinary across computer, information, environmental, geographical, and social sciences.
Web 2.0 Term coined by O’Reilly in 2003 to describe the rise of: –user-generated content; –folksonomy; –on-line collaboration between users; Web 2.0 tools emphasize: –Blogging –Tagging –Commenting –Modifying –Augmenting The Participatory Web – it is easy to publish your own content
Data Sources Observations & Models –Surface –Satellite –Forecasts News Blogs (Technorati) What you collect and generate
Each of the following gets its own slide with examples (need to figure out which ones we do ‘live’) Del.icio.us relevant China links and share new links while they are abroad Blogs (either class or individual blogs) Flickr - share pictures (embed in blog) YouTube/Screencast - movies of events (embed in blog) Google Sites - can have blog, embed pictures, calendar, docs, video all in one place and discuss. Skype/WebEx portals wikis mashups (including consoles, google maps / open layers, google earth) RSS feeds and Yahoo Pipes
Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking Storing bookmarks on-line, publicly, with a folksonomy categorization Can tag the bookmarks for others Collectively collect of sites/resources/online texts using particular set of tags More information: Video on Del.icio.usVideo on Del.icio.us
Online Photo Sharing – Flickr
Wikis Websites that anyone can edit with little to no knowledge of markup language More Information: Video on WikisVideo on Wikis
Blogs More Information: Blog VideoBlog Video
Screencasts and YouTube
Skype and WebEx
Google Sites
Portals
Mashups
RSS Feeds
How to get started Google sites? Explore the links provided in these slides Figure out how you want to communicate prior to China trip, during trip and after you return Find ‘coordinators/facilitators’ in your group who can set up the web technology and initiative group content creation and interaction This is far from an exact science. What you’ll be doing will help define how the web is most effectively used in environmental research. What you create will be reused in subsequent trips and research projects