1. Enhancing Research Projects with Environmental Informatics and Web Technologies

2. Overview

3. Static versus Dynamic Research Projects Email only Powerpoint slides Pdf reports Sharing/publication only of final results Email + shared web workspaces Screencasts, WebEx Multi-author content creation Sharing/publication of workflow (data to information) Static Dynamic

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Data Sources Observations & Models –Surface –Satellite –Forecasts News Blogs (Technorati) What you collect and generate

8. 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 - http://sites.google.com/ can have blog, embed pictures, calendar, docs, video all in one place and discuss.http://sites.google.com/ Skype/WebEx portals wikis mashups (including consoles, google maps / open layers, google earth) RSS feeds and Yahoo Pipes

9. Del.icio.us http://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

10. Online Photo Sharing – Flickr

11. Wikis Websites that anyone can edit with little to no knowledge of markup language More Information: Video on WikisVideo on Wikis

12. Blogs More Information: Blog VideoBlog Video

13. Screencasts and YouTube

14. Skype and WebEx

15. Google Sites

16. Portals

17. Mashups

18. RSS Feeds

19. 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