New project: BlogMyData

BlogMyData will combine two existing systems to create a new Virtual Research Environment for environmental scientists. By combining the capabilities of an online environmental data visualization system with a sophisticated blogging and collaboration engine, we will create a new facility for scientists to collaborate on important tasks of data interpretation, focusing on the diagnosis of the latest cutting-edge numerical simulations of the climate and oceans.  The HiGEM community will be our first guinea-pigs.

This project is a collaboration between the ReSC and the Chemistry Department of the University of Southampton. It is funded by JISC under the Virtual Research Environment Rapid Innovation theme, and was enabled by the e-Research South platform grant.

As you might imagine, this project has its own blog.  This picture illustrates the main components of the proposed system.  More details can be found in the project proposal.

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.