Widgets: New Features, Visualize + Analyze Contents of Files

[posixeleni]

F1000 Research would like us to be able to use the Dataverse widget feature to display the actual contents or preview of a file instead of just showing the Dataverse site within it. Example: if they had a tabular file or PDF deposited in Dataverse they'd like to have a widget where you can see the contents of the tabular file or PDF file itself.

Figshare has a feature like this so I am including a link to their website but please let me know if you have any questions regarding this Feature Request. http://figshare.com/blog/Embeddable_figshare_content/87 F1000 research is using this widget from figshare for their journal articles and had asked if we offered this kind of visualization support: http://blog.f1000research.com/2012/07/10/new-figshare-widget-gives-previews-of-data-on-f1000-research/ They would also like the widget to be able to handle tabular data visualizations (TwoRavens) and Geospatial (WorldMap) visualizations.

This is something we had put into the Sloan proposal which we received funding for starting in January 2015 so we can start planning and scoping this out after 4.0

[posixeleni]

This can also be something we work with Gus on to provide visualizations for World Wide Telescope files that can have a widget inserted in a journal article.

[augustfly]

Yep, @posixeleni!

[posixeleni]

Received word from F1000 that these are the most common file types they would like to visualize in a Dataverse file visualization widget:

The most common in no particular order are (those that we don’t have but are possible have a *):

TSV; CSV; ODS; XML; XLSX; MPEG-4; MPEG-3; FASTA; TIFF; PDF; TXT; GIS; FCS (flow cytometry); .mat would be great if possible, but probably has some proprietary issues.

[augustfly]

my random thoughts:

• .tex -- That is a good list, but if you're going to do XML/TXT then also include .TEX.
• .ipynb --
• As for astronomy, I would recommend converting astronomy 1 or 2D "FITS" to 8 bit png and then display that instead of trying to do native FITS in a file viz widget. I guess you could push FITS to WWT, but boy that is a lot of wasted bits unless WWT preparses FITS files in dataverse.

[posixeleni]

Here's a mockup of how this data file widget might look:

[posixeleni]

changed the priority to high since this is a deliverable for a grant project

[sbarbosadataverse]

@posixeleni can we bring this up in girt please? We can't necessarily agree with this being a priority 2. Thanks

[pdurbin]

Anyone interested in this issue may want to participate in this Tuesday's community call because Scholars Portal will be giving a demo of their new "DDI Explorer" app. For details on how to call in, please see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dataverse-community/Zpib-uCIG1g/Rg9tJGieBAAJ . DDI Explorer is only for tabular data, but I wonder if it could be made into a widget of some sort.

[raprasad]

basic tabular preview example using file id 2966861:

• basic/basic table: https://services.dataverse.harvard.edu/miniverse/datafile/table-preview-html/2966861
• json: https://services.dataverse.harvard.edu/miniverse/datafile/table-preview-json/2966861

Add any id of a published file to the urls above

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[pdurbin]

Related: Files: Quick Viewers for Common File Extensions #2214

[djbrooke]

I'm going to close this, as I believe that this would be handled by some mix of better previews (#3758) and file level external tools.