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You are scientist Dr. Q. R. Ius. You are pulling together a paper on how global warming has affected erosion patterns in Upstate New York streams. Where do you begin?
Fortunately, you've heard about the Lias group at RIT. They've got a primo research tool. It's going to be your first stop.
You log into the Lias website. Since you're always doing soil erosion research, your Lias profile assume's you're going to want to do some more of the same. If your research were different this time, you'd have an opportunity to set-the-stage and give the system a bit of background about what ballpark you're in.
Then, you search. You start off telling the system that you're curious about Upstate New York streams and global warming. The system brings up a map for you showing available data sets from Upstate New York going back four or five years.
You notice that a large number of data sets are available for the streams that feed into Irondequoit Bay. The data sets are marked out on the map and color coded. The color coding tells you at a glance that others have successfully used some of those data sets for erosion studies. Other people tried to use a few of the data sets for erosion studies but didn't find those sets useful.
So, you pick out a few of the data sets that you want to try. You notice, too, that the system has told you that several other people found successes searching for
"erosion" "Irondequoit Bay". You click on that. You don't find any new data sets, but you see that one of the data sets you already picked out has gotten some rave reviews. Bonus. You're doing well.
You also notice that nearly everyone who has used the data sets in that area has also made use of the elevation data for that area. And, several who have done erosion studies on that area also pulled in precipation and temperature information from another data set. So, you select some of that data, as well.
Also, along with your search results is a list of algorithms that other people found useful for doing erosion studies. You see that several people used an algorithm to combine the elevation data with the sensor data. You see that several people used an algorithm to register the different wavelengths of WASP data. And, you see an algorithm that several people used to find water boundaries in registered WASP data.
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PatrickStein - 21 Mar 2005
In addition...
Perhaps the others that did their research also left an "experimenter's notebook" that describes their data+process in detail so that collaborative modification is possible. This would have side-effects regarding publishing and ownership, but would also be handy for coming up to speed quickly on what analysis was actually done and what the results were.
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HarveyRhody - 01 Apr 2005
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