Presentations

Gus Muench: The Astronomy Dataverse: enabling astronomer data publishing, at .Astronomy4, Heidelberg, Germany, Monday, July 9, 2012:

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This is a presentation describing the "Astronomy Dataverse," which is a platform for digital sharing and preservation of the data objects related to an astronomer's research.

The presentation first describes the typical problems that occur with data embedded in papers. It repeats these points by laying out the lifecycle of such data objects as research progresses through the typical literature publication process. After these examples it describes the ways in the Dataverse Network software platform...

Alberto Pepe: The ADS All-sky survey, at Heidelberg, Germany, Thursday, July 12, 2012:

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Alberto Pepe's talk at the .Astronomy4 meeting held July 2012 at the Haus der Astronomie and the IWH Center in Heidelberg.

Arzu Coltekin: Cartography and Astronomy: Ancient and Modern Synergies , at CfA, Thursday, July 19, 2012

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In this talk Arzu Coltekin explores the ancient and modern traditions of mapping; extracting the design principles applied and used by astronomy and cartography communities along the way.... Read more about Arzu Coltekin: Cartography and Astronomy: Ancient and Modern Synergies

Alyssa Goodman: An Alternate Universe of Learning, Through the Eyes of WorldWide Telescope , at New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Cambridge, MA, Thursday, June 14, 2012

NMC Summer Conference, 2012

Five Minutes of Fame Wrap up

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Alyssa Goodman demonstrates the WorldWide Telescope program live, showing how it offers a gorgeous "Universe Information System" to its user (please see TED talk link below for a glimpse of the program). She brought along a Microsoft Kinect controller and an XBox game controller, to demonstrate alternatives to the mouse/keyboard model for controlling the program. At one point, she "swam" through the Universe, using the Kinect (see demo link below).
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Michelle Borkin: Crowdsourcing Through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Analysis and Visualization in Astronomy, at .Astronomy 4, Heidelberg, Germany, Tuesday, July 10, 2012:

borkin-dotastronomy_final.pdf

Michelle Borkin's talk from the .Astronomy4 meeting held July 2012 at the Haus der Astronomie and the IWH Centerin Heidelberg. Read more about Michelle Borkin: Crowdsourcing Through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Analysis and Visualization in Astronomy

Alyssa Goodman: Seeing Science, at ABCD Visualization Working Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA , Friday, May 4, 2012

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Alyssa Goodman: Astronomy as an "Archetype for Online Science", at Harvard ABCD Group Meeting, Cambridge, MA, Friday, September 7, 2012

Files: key, 105 MB; pdf, 22 MB; ppt, 90 MB

Alyssa Goodman: The Close Relationship between Heart Disease and Sea Monsters , at CIERA Northwestern University, Friday, November 30, 2012

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Auditing Distributed Preservation Networks , at CNI, Friday, December 7, 2012

This presentation, delivered at CNI 2012, summarizes the lessons learned from trial audits of a several production distributed digital preservation networks. These audits were conducted using the open source SafeArchive system, which enables automated auditing of a selection of TRAC criteria related to replication and storage. An analysis of the trial audits demonstrates both the complexities of auditing modern replicated storage networks, and reveals common gaps between archival policy and practice. Recommendations for closing these gaps are discussed, as are extensions that have...

SafeArchive: Audit System Overview, at University of North Carolina, Thursday, January 12, 2012:

curategear_2012_crabtree.pdf

Presented at CurateGear 2012, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SafeArchive, at Curategear 2013, University of North Carolina, Saturday, January 12, 2013

Presented at CurateGear. See: http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2013.html

SafeArchive: Auditing Distributed Digital Preservation, at 8th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Sunday, January 6, 2013:

crabtree_saas_idcc_2013_1.pptx

Presented at the 8th International Digital Curation Conference.

SafeArchive Training Workshop, at IASSIST 2012, Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Presented at IASSIST 2012. See http://www.safearchive.org/announcements/safearchive-workshop-june-2012

Auditing PLNs: Preliminary Results and Next Steps, at Public Locks Network 2012, UNC, Friday, October 12, 2012:

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In a presentation co-authored with Jonathan Crabtree, we summarized some lessons learned from trial audits of several production distributed digital preservation networks. These audits were conducted using the open source SafeArchive system (www.safearchive.org), which enables automated auditing of a selection of TRAC criteria related to replication and storage. An analysis of the trial audits demonstrates both the complexities of auditing modern replicated storage networks, and reveals common gaps between archival policy and practice. It also reveals gaps in the auditing tools we...

Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy, Sea Monsters, and the Milky Way (Innovation and Digital Scholarship Lecture Series), at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK, Thursday, February 21, 2013

Presentation Files: key, 273 MB, ppt, 204 MB, pdf, 47 MB

Abstract: Most astronomy researchers use online travel tools like Kayak and Expedia, yet they don't expect such integrative services in their research. Instead, they use "...

Alyssa Goodman: (Secrets of the) WorldWide Telescope, at Albert Einstein Science Conference, Harvard University, Saturday, March 30, 2013

Albert Einstein Science Conference 2013 (pdf schedule), (Secrets of the) WorldWide Telescope, (key, 176 MB), (ppt, 165 MB), (...

Alyssa Goodman: Seeing More in Data , at Gov 3009 Applied Statistics Workshop, Harvard University, Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Gov 3009 Applied Statistics Workshop, Seeing More in Data (key, 112 MB), (ppt, 100 MB), (pdf, 11 MB)

Alyssa Goodman: WorldWide Telescope, at Liberact Workshop, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, Friday, March 1, 2013

Liberact Workshop, WorldWide Telescope, (key, 59 MB), (ppt, 46 MB), (pdf, 11 MB)

Helping Journals to Upgrade Data Publications for Reusable Research, at NETSL Annual Spring Conference, College of Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Worcester, MA, Friday, April 12, 2013:

helping_journals_to_upgrade_data_publications_for_reusable.pdf

Presented by Sonia Barbosa and Eleni Castro from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) during the Lightning Talks session at the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Annual Spring Conference.

Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy...and The Bones of the Milky Way, at Columbia University (The Bishop Lecture), Saturday, April 20, 2013:

columbia_bishop_goodman.key.pdf

Most astronomy researchers use online travel tools like Kayak and Expedia, yet they don't expect such integrative services in their research. Instead, they use "modernized" versions of old technologies, such as sending each other email in lieu of paper letters. Some astronomers, however, are leading the way toward a future that has much less precedent in a pre-internet world. In this talk, I will explain elements of what future-leaning astronomers mean by "Seamless Astronomy", a term which effectively describes an ecosystem for scholarly research as smart and streamlined as Kayak is for...

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