[Medin_dacwg] MEDIN DAC Hack Day

[Dan Lear]

Hi All,

The hack day is now next week.  Thanks to those who've confirmed their attendance, there's still room for 1 or 2 more if any of the other DAC's want to participate?
We will have some cloud servers set up in advance of the event, as well as a CSW and (hopefully) a database copy of all the MEDIN metadata on the portal, plus a (small) goody bag from Digital Ocean who have kindly agreed to support the event.

Other than that, please bring your talent and creativity and we'll see what can be achieved in two half days!

Any questions, please get in touch,
Cheers
Dan


From: Dan Lear
Sent: 26 September 2016 16:54
To: Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk; Mike Hall; Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk; Joanna Whittle (Cefas); chwood at bodc.ac.uk; thogar at bodc.ac.uk; dieg at bgs.ac.uk; peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk; Wojtaszekova, Katerina; Brendan Lally (Cefas) (brendan.lally at cefas.co.uk)
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil at bodc.ac.uk); 'JPAR at mba.ac.uk'
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi All,

The MEDIN hack-day is approaching rather quickly, so it's probably a good time to send out a bit more information.

As stated below, the event will run over 2 half-days (21 & 22nd November) at the same venue as last time in London.
We will hopefully have a cloud platform to deploy to and develop on, helping with the visibility and usability.

The theme of the hack is "Making the Most of MEDIN Metadata", which hopefully gives us a steer but leaves plenty of scope interpretation!

Some initial ideas/suggestions from Jens included:

Possible data visualisations:
- What is the age profile of marine data on MEDIN?
- Spatial density of data (coarse - by bounding box)
-  Word clouds of vocabulary keywords scaled by use
- Connectivity map of organisations, data, keywords, types, and other controlled vocabulary classifications

If several groups work on these visualisations, they could ultimately get put together in a digital MEDIN info-graph

More programmatic/analytical products:

- Evaluating online access for MEDIN data - crunching numbers and records for access, potentially refined by including other sources of information as well

- Finding gaps in MEDIN data cover, by applying the BODC SKOS vocabulary structure, you can analyse connectivity of metadata across many linked topics within this structure. Thus, data sets can have a "distance" from a given topic defined, and by iterating over all the metadata and keyword uses, you should be able to also locate concepts/keywords within the linked vocabularies that are less well covered - a strategic support tool for broadening the marine data available, driven by the data itself.

- Alternative designs of metadata use. We all use metadata in a very technical way - but there is a wealth of information that could be presented in wildly different ways. E.g. you could distil topics into certain designs and only use some of the content to provide different design for presenting the information.


If you have any ideas, suggestions or questions please let me know or share them here.
All the best,
Dan



From: Dan Lear
Sent: 10 June 2016 13:24
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood at bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar at bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg at bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'; Brendan Lally (Cefas) (brendan.lally at cefas.co.uk<mailto:brendan.lally at cefas.co.uk>)
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:hanwil at bodc.ac.uk>); 'JPAR at mba.ac.uk'
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi All,

Just want to give you all an early "heads-up" that we're planning another MEDIN Hack Day.  Hopefully this time around we will dispense with the preliminaries and get straight into messing around with data/tools to come up with some more great examples of what can be done with MEDIN-DAC-hosted and associated data.

The date for your diaries is 21/22 November and it will be held at the same venue in London.  With the event spanning an afternoon/early evening and the next morning there will be more time to discuss and develop our ideas, including a chance to chat and ponder over dinner and a drink or 2.

We're still working on a theme/focus for the outputs, but if any of you have suggestions please let me know.

After the last event we got some really helpful feedback about how the event could be better next time around, we'll be acting on this, but equally if you have some comments now, please let me know.

I'll keep you all updated as plans progress.

All the best,
Dan



From: Dan Lear
Sent: 20 January 2016 11:41
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood at bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar at bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg at bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'; Brendan Lally (Cefas) (brendan.lally at cefas.co.uk<mailto:brendan.lally at cefas.co.uk>)
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:hanwil at bodc.ac.uk>)
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to say a big "Thank you" for all the enthusiasm and work yesterday. I think we can call the day a big success and will hopefully be the first of many such future events.

If you have any feedback on the day, ideas for how it could be improved in the future, or just some (vaguely relevant) random thoughts, then please let me know.

It was a pleasure to meet those of you I haven't met before and I hope you all had safe journeys home.

Thanks again, and best wishes,
Dan


From: Dan Lear
Sent: 12 January 2016 07:58
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood at bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar at bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg at bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:hanwil at bodc.ac.uk>)
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi All,

Next Tuesday is the Hack Day.  So a few more bits of information ahead of the event.

Directions to the venue are attached.

Some people have asked about hardware/resources that will be available.  Hopefully most people will bring laptops that they can develop on, plus we can provide FTP and SSH access to the DASSH webservers (PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL).
The longer-term plan is promote the outputs through a section of the MEDIN (or relevant DAC) website and potentially on GitHub/Google Code.

A couple more potential data sources for the day have been identified:
http://marinedata.scotland.gov.uk/
and
http://maps.oceanwise.eu/wrecks/medin/ (will try and get access to the native WMS/WFS for the day)


Any questions let me know,

All the best,
Dan




From: Dan Lear
Sent: 07 January 2016 12:21
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood at bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar at bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg at bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk'; Wojtaszekova, Katerina
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:hanwil at bodc.ac.uk>)
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi All,

Just a couple more weeks until the Hack Day, so here are some more details.

Can I ask that each participant prepares a brief, 5 minute presentation.  These presentations will be given at the start of the day and will serve as an introduction, a brief history of (relevant) projects they've been involved in, and also any ideas or suggestions they have for products/outputs we could aim to create within the day.

Cefas now may not be able to attend, however the data resources at http://data.cefas.co.uk are available to us.

Can I please ask that you let me know if you have any special dietary requirements by the end of this week.

Finally, the consultation for the redevelopment of the MEDIN Portal is underway.  The company co-ordinating the consultation will be asking for our feedback during the meeting (either just after or just before lunch), this will only take 30 mins max, so will not impact on our work significantly.

If you have any questions or queries, please let me know and I'll do my best to answer them.

All the best,
Dan




From: Dan Lear
Sent: 18 December 2015 10:14
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood at bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar at bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg at bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk'
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'
Subject: RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Hi All,

The MEDIN Hack Day/Technical Workshop is now just over a month away.

In addition to the datasets listed previously (https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/ ), Peter McKeague of RCAHMS/Historic Environment Scotland has sent these:

--
https://canmore.org.uk/content/temporary-download-page

The statutory data for the Scottish Historic Marine Protected Areas  may be downloaded from
http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hes/web/f?p=PORTAL:SPATIALDOWNLOADS:::::DATASET:HESALL
--

My suggestion, given the attendee's we have and their affiliations, is to look at a Scotland-centric use case/demonstration, alongside a UK-wide or England/Wales one.

In preparation for the day we (DASSH) are currently adding more biodiversity data to our WFS, including the Crab Atlas of the NW Atlantic, the recently digitised 1957 Plymouth Marine Fauna and Natural England's MCZ monitoring data.

If you have any ideas or suggestions to what questions we can address by combining some of the available data into useful products on the day, then please 'reply all'.
We won't have a huge amount of time available, as we plan to start at 11 and finish by 5, so any preparatory work you can do would be useful.

Cheers & Happy Christmas,
Dan


From: Dan Lear
Sent: 19 November 2015 22:16
To: 'Jens.Rasmussen at scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell at thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas) (Joanna.Whittle at cefas.co.uk<mailto:Joanna.Whittle at cefas.co.uk>)'; chwood at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:chwood at bodc.ac.uk>; thogar at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:thogar at bodc.ac.uk>; dieg at bgs.ac.uk<mailto:dieg at bgs.ac.uk>; peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk<mailto:peter.mckeague at rcahms.gov.uk>
Cc: 'Clare Postlethwaite'
Subject: MEDIN DAC Hack Day

Dear All,

Thanks to all who've responded.
I can now confirm the DAC Technical Workshop/'Hackathon' will take place on:
Tuesday 19th January 2016
at University of Liverpool, Finsbury Square, London.

Confirmed to attend we have:
Jens Rasmussen (Marine Scotland)
Peter McKeague (RCAHMS/Historic Environment Scotland)
Thomas Gardner (BODC)
Diego Diaz Doce (BGS)
Chris Wood (BODC)
Mike Hall (MBA)
Joanna Whittle (Cefas)
Kieran Bell (TCE)
Dan Lear (MBA)

For those not at the recent MEDIN DAC Working Group meeting, the aim of this workshop is to show-case what can be achieved by combining data from 2 (or more) MEDIN DACs into a "product" that is of use or interest to the public and/or policy makers.

We've thrown together a couple of initial webpages here - https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/ that were original done back in 20013 when this event was first discussed.  The main bit of interest is the list of "Data Sources and Services" where there's a first attempt at listing some of the potential sources of data we can use.  If you know of any others please let me know.

There's also a forum where we can throw some ideas around ahead of the workshop.

I'll email more details soon, but please get the date in your diary.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Cheers
Dan

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