Andy Turner's Blog 2008-06 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Blog
2008-07-01
Events
- Planning to attend/attended:
  - 2008-06-26
    - NDS/NCESS Confidential Data and Security Workshop
      - Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : 2008-06-26 Page
      - Andy Turner's NCeSS/NDS Confidential Data and Security Workshop Web Page
  - 2008-06-18 to 2008-06-20
    - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
  - 2008-06-16 to 2008-06-17
    - Geospatial Web Services Workshop 2008
- Others of interest:
2008-06-30
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - Catch up Meeting with Junaid
2008-06-27
- Browsing
  - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/04+How+to+Read+a+Shapefile
- e-Science
  - Considering what can be done about the information from the old ncess wiki:
    - Tobias Schiebeck helpfully made the old ncess wiki available to me again at a location that I will not disclose as he asked me not to.
      - As additional security we are restricting access to specific IP addresses and only having this online until August.
    - I keep thinking this is someone elses job, but nobody else seems interested/willing to take it on.
      - Perhaps Bill Dutton and others from the sustainability work package on the NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences will be interested...
      - ...and then again perhaps not and nobody is interested ever an this is a bit of a waste of time!
    - I'm still wondering what Kenny Baird meant when he said it (the old NCeSS wiki) was "history"...
    - I can see myself doing the same thing in time with the information on the wikis of the various NCeSS Sakai Portal Worksites...
    - My first plan was to format and migrate the wiki main page content to the NCeSS Sakai Portal Information Worksite.
      - However the Information Worksite has changed it's name to the Help Worksite and I have become paranoid and no longer trust it.
      - A public view of the wiki home page for this Help/Information Worksite is still available via the following URL:
        
        http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/88865e79-474e-4b91-8071-049e0a6282aa/home.html
    - I have decided that for the time being I will move the content of the latest version of pages into My Workspace Worksite Wiki and have the following as the key reference for the Old (First) NCeSS Wiki for the time being:
      - * external link: http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/%7Ea.g.d.turner%40leeds.ac.uk/oldncesswiki_about.html
      - I will do this page by page starting with the Main_Page.
2008-06-26
- e-Science
  - NDS/NCESS Confidential Data and Security Workshop
    - Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : 2008-06-26 Page
    - Andy Turner's NCeSS/NDS Confidential Data and Security Workshop Web Page
2008-06-25
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Investigating how to develop NCeSS Sakai Portal Wiki content:
    - For each page it would be good to have lists of:
      - internal wiki pages that link to it
      - external web pages that link to it
    - Although on the info page for each page it suggests this list should exist it is not generated...
    - I suppose I should file a feature request...
2008-06-24
- Miscellanea
  - Provided feedback on the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science via the online feedback form:
    - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/feedback/
2008-06-23
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Sorted expenses from last week hopefully!
  - eResearch: Be open and collaborative, try to use and develop open standards, open source software and open data...:-)
2008-06-20
- Browsing
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-20
- e-Science
  - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
    - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/programme/
    - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-20
2008-06-19
- Browsing
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-19
- e-Science
  - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
    - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/programme/
    - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-19
2008-06-18
- Browsing
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-18
- e-Science
  - 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
    - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/programme/
    - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-18
2008-06-17
- Browsing
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-17
- e-Science
  - Geospatial Web Services Workshop 2008
    - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/geowebservices/speakerbios_geowebservices.pdf
    - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-17
2008-06-16
- Browsing
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-16
- e-Science
  - Geospatial Web Services Workshop 2008
    - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/geowebservices/speakerbios_geowebservices.pdf
    - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-16
2008-06-13
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Joined the OGC Coverages.wg email list
  - Communications on Interpolating missing data in a raster/Status of Coverages in GeoAPI and GeoTools on the Geotools-gt2-users list:
    - ...
- e-Science
  - MoSeS
    - Need to resolve the Incompatible Table Layout Issue for Northern Ireland in CAS003
      - CAS003_England.PNG
      - CAS003_NorthernIreland.PNG
      - There are 5 aggregations required amounting to 63 less variables.
      - Are any of the variable being accessed?
        
        If so, then the easiest fix involving a recoding of CAS003DataRecord to simply hold the lowest common aggreagation is dangerous!
2008-06-12
- Browsing
  - A Method For Approximating Missing Data in Spatial Patterns
  - http://www.fightforourhomes.com/index.php?component=ddb&operation=page&page=4
    - "Market Renewal Pathfinders are projects set up by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to tackle the most acute areas of low demand and abandonment in parts of the North and Midlands."
  - http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/
    - http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/reports/NATIONAL-REPORT.asp?CategoryID=&ProdID=D9720DA3-ED2C-4190-BF55-7D1816AFE780
  - http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/researchstaff/ramp/ramppublications.html
  - Pier Giorgio and Graham Vowles Planning Committee Meeting Notes from Potsdam posted in OGC Portal : Technical Committee* / Meetings / 2008 Meetings / 2008-05 Potsdam / PC Meeting Report
  - http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/slip/
  - Michael Bedward
- Miscellanea
  - Communications on Interpolating missing data in a raster/Status of Coverages in GeoAPI and GeoTools on the Geotools-gt2-users list:
    - ...
- e-Science
  - MoSeS
    - Obtained result from leeds.ngs.ac.uk for 145600 to 150000.
    - Running CheckAndFormat to test in memory data structure...
  - NeSS
    - Project Meeting
      - http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/18e05b54-6c2e-4963-80a1-b56ef16ec87b/ncess%20e-infrastructure%20for%20the%20social%20sciences%20project%20meeting%202008-06-12.html
      - Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting 2008-06-12 Web Page
  - GENESIS
    - Networking
      - I tried to catalyse collaboration with:
        
        Alexander Zipf
        
        Benjamin Hagedorn
2008-06-11
- Browsing
  - Visulisations of Mass Transit:
  - Understanding individual human mobility patterns
- Miscellanea
  - Communications on Interpolating missing data in a raster/Status of Coverages in GeoAPI and GeoTools on the Geotools-gt2-users list:
    - ...
- e-Science
  - NGS account reactivated :-)
    - Current usage is 26412.267 and resource allocation is 123940.
    - This allocation is exclusively for MoSeS work.
  - MoSeS
    - Set NGS run going for 145600 to 150000 at ngs.leeds.ac.uk:
      - ...
2008-06-10
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - MoSeS
    - Technical Meeting
      - Andy Turner's MoSeS Technical Meeting 2008-06-10 Web Page
- References
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-10
2008-06-09
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - I spent most of the day catching up on admin like doing my expenses claims and filtering email :-(
- References
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-09
2008-06-06
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - Formatted some Lidar data of Greenland for Jonathan Carrivick
    - This was easy to do with gawk :-)
- e-Science
  - MoSeS
    - Final version of Paper title "Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies" that will be presentated at the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science available online:
      - Word Document Version
      - PDF Version
2008-06-05
- June '08 OGC Technical Committee Meeting
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-05
2008-06-04
- June '08 OGC Technical Committee Meeting
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-04
2008-06-03
- June '08 OGC Technical Committee Meeting
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-03
2008-06-02
- June '08 OGC Technical Committee Meeting
  - NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Wiki : 2008-06-02
2008-05-30