e-Research South Quarterly Newsletter, June 2010

The June 2010 issue of the e-Research South quarterly newsletter has been published.  It is themed on Energy and contains information about new projects in this field, as well as announcements of the two new ReSC-led data projects MashMyData and BlogMyData.

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New project: MashMyData

The MashMyData project will develop a proof-of-concept web portal to demonstrate the intercomparison of environmental datasets on the web. We will use the latest Web GIS technologies to allow scientists to visualize and intercompare datasets without the need to understand the low-level technical details of the data's format or physical location. Test case scientists will be able to simultaneously visualize data from many sources, including their own uploaded data, data shared by their colleagues and third-party datasets (both public and restricted-access), as well as being able to perform simple quantitative comparison calculations, such as calculating the misfit between a numerical model and a set of observations over a user-selected region of space and time.

This project is a collaboration between the ReSC and the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA). It is funded by NERC under the Technologies Proof of Concept programme.