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ebeshero commented 4 years ago

@jwa32 Here are some things to get your project started:

Have you invited your teammates @lewisabia and @ads171 to join this project repo? (Only you can do that. )
Consider renaming your repo something a little simpler like just C02E (gives you something like a cool code word and it's less to type! And it might give you a neat logo for your site. (Only you can do that as the owner of this repo).
For you, @ads171, and @lewisabia : here comes the hard part: You want to find some texts to mark up. @ghbondar had a good suggestion on your project proposal and you may want to start there to see what is on the IPCC site that you can work with. There is also a series of reports addressed to policy-makers (people in government) here that might be a good resource for the project: https://research.un.org/en/climate-change/reports
Think about: What do you want to do with XML to build this project? Usually our projects involve marking up documents for patterns to study and track. You aren't just going to be presenting a report about the problems of deforestation and global warming and C02 emissions. For the project, you will need to be tracing something with markup on documents that are relevant to your topic. What do you want to be marking in documents about your topic? I have some thoughts--let me know what you think of these:
- Lots of climate change reports give numbers about how much or how extensive things are happening, and there are already good databases of information for scientists and policy makers to access. Your project can't redo their hard work. The scientific reports are already full of specialized data and complex graphics (see this IPCC report), but what can you do instead?
- Who do you want to reach with your project? Is it people who need to learn more about global warming and C02 emissions and deforestation? What do you want to share?
- What can you do with an XML project on this topic?
  - Well, you could start simple and just collect names of agencies and websites that are working on surveying the problem. Making an index of resources to learn from is a good start. (And NASA's website on the subject looks like a great resource: https://climate.nasa.gov/ )
  - As I look at the NASA site, I've been wondering if you might want to pick a few particularly significant regions like the Amazon to read more about what is happening over a year or two. Some research questions: Do you see (mark up) signs of progress in this region? Do you see (mark up) events that are aggravating the problem? Can you target and categorize the kinds of activities that aggravate the problem? Your markup can help you survey whether things are getting worse or better here. And maybe if each of you concentrates on news about global warming over a set period of years in each of maybe 3 or 4 locations around the planet, your markup can help study and compare the kinds of things you see happening that either A) make things worse, or B) try to repair things.

What do you think?

ebeshero commented 4 years ago

@jwa32 I visited @lewisabia 's GitHub to make sure he could see this issue. And I suddenly realized he has been posting lots of cool artwork in his GitHub practice. It gave me an idea--what do you think of this as an angle for working on your topic? https://github.com/lewisabia/gitlewis/issues/1

The idea I had was basically: Since your teammate has a strong interest in art, what about concentrating a project on making a digital archive of regional artwork made in places associated with global warming and deforestation. You could cluster the images according to how they address particular aspects of global warming, such as how deforestation is affecting every day life. Here's some light reading on that: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/using-art-show-climate-change-threat

I'm tagging @alnopa9 here because she has great experience from the Banksy project on using XML to make a gallery. We need some good ideas for a foundation in XML for your project.

ebeshero commented 4 years ago

And @ads171 should be part of this, too. I saw both Luwi and Anthony in class today. I'm hoping to meet with the three of you maybe right after class on Wednesday 9/25 if possible? @lewisabia @jwa32

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