Drupal for Scientists Intro

8/3/2019 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

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