Creating a Web Portal to Open Science and data in a study of the Palaeoecology of West Cork

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Project Lead: @westcorkpalaeo Mentor: @bruno-soares

Welcome to OLS-3! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program :tada:.

Week 1 (week starting 8 February 2021): Meet your mentor!

[x] Create an account on GitHub
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This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful
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Before Week 3 (week starting 22 February 2021): Meet your mentor!

[x] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
[x] Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
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Week 5 and later

[x] Create a GitHub repository for your project
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WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Vision statement started.

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Vision statement - I am working as a sole and independent researcher, though open to participation by interested parties, undertaking a full investigation into the history of the environment and ecology of West Cork. The principle motivation is to gain a more complete understanding of the history of the area since the last Ice Age and contribute to existing gaps in the palaeoecological, geographical, and archaeological data. In addition the aim is also to enable ordinary non-academic people to see and understand the environment around them in full, so that they can start to appreciate what it is, how it got to be the way it is now. It is hoped that this will increase awareness of the importance of the environment, how it can best be managed and how we can all benefit from taking better care of it. The principles of Open Working will be employed to ensure that the project as a whole will be accessible to everyone, understandable by everyone and of interest for everyone.

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Open Canvas link - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zWHVLyKSvUqxiqvRPkJr7dBFjVcYtXxErT1ZxmiZufU/edit?usp=sharing

AnnaleeSekulic commented 3 years ago

Hi! This is a great project plan to have the common person understand the importance of a changing environment through time. I would love to hear more about the groups you want to engage and how the data will be submitted/visualized!

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Commented on the vision statements of two projects of interest - Intellectual Property, Indigenous Knowledges, and the Rise of Open Data in Australian Environmental Archaeology. #21 Towards FAIRer phytolith data #30

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

A slightly different take on my vision statement as sent to the BES for inclusion of my project in their newsletter - As a sole and independent researcher I am undertaking a full investigation into the history of the environment and ecology of West Cork in south west Ireland. The principle motivation is to gain a more complete understanding of the history of the area since the last Ice Age and contribute to existing gaps in the palaeoecological, geographical, and archaeological data. Sediment cores from various lakes and bogs, principally lowland, in West Cork are being, and will be, sampled, processed, and analysed, though at present movement is hampered by COVID restrictions. The principles of Open Working are being employed to ensure that the project as a whole will be accessible to everyone, understandable by everyone and of interest for everyone.It is hoped that this project will, by enabling a better understanding of the landscape, serve to increase awareness of the importance of the environment, how it can best be managed, and how we can all benefit from taking better care of it. The website is under development – by me – and currently focuses principally on the foundations of the region, the geology, sedimentology, and landscape history. I am open to participation by anyone who is interested. This project is entirely self funded at the moment, apart from a grant from IQUA received two years ago to fund radiocarbon dates.

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

A bit bemused by the Up-Goer 5 text editor - every word of relevance or interest is listed as a non-permitted word. So, how to explain astudy of palaeoecology without using words like - (INVESTIGATION, HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY, WEST, CORK, SOUTH, WEST, IRELAND, PRINCIPLE, MOTIVATION, GAIN, HISTORY, CONTRIBUTE, EXISTING, GAPS, PALAEOECOLOGICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, DATA, SEDIMENT, CORES, VARIOUS, LAKES, BOGS, PRINCIPALLY, LOWLAND, WEST, CORK, SAMPLED, PROCESSED, ANALYSED, MOVEMENT, HAMPERED, COVID, RESTRICTIONS, PRINCIPLES, EMPLOYED, ENSURE, PROJECT, ACCESSIBLE, UNDERSTANDABLE, PROJECT, ENABLING, LANDSCAPE, SERVE, INCREASE, AWARENESS, IMPORTANCE, ENVIRONMENT, BENEFIT, WEBSITE, DEVELOPMENT, CURRENTLY, PRINCIPALLY, FOUNDATIONS, REGION, GEOLOGY, SEDIMENTOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, HISTORY, PARTICIPATION, PROJECT, ENTIRELY, FUNDED, APART, GRANT, IQUA, RECEIVED, FUND, RADIOCARBON).

open-phytoliths-admin commented 3 years ago

This is a great project, very close to our field of study. I see great opportunities for interaction and mutual benefit!

mxrtinez commented 3 years ago

Hi, what a great project, including communities in the construction of knowledge is fundamental. Do you plan to build the website or have you thought about using an existing tool (well if there is one)?

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your interest.

There are still aspects of this to work out. Microfossil reference images will be posted up as galleries, but how to represent the results of core analysis in a meaningful and interesting way has yet to be worked out.

As for engaging members of the various communities, this may be through schools and universities, engagement through meetings of local history and natural history societies, and an idea a friend has employed is to run safaris in the countryside looking at features and talking about what the represent, how they were formed, how old they are etc. (Her safaris were aimed at prehistoric rock art in Kerry)

So there is a lot to think about and a lot to do.

Robin Lewando WestCorkPalaeo, Rearahinagh, Drimoleague, Cork.

www.westcorkpalaeo.com http://www.westcorkpalaeo.com

Mobile: 0830744708

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 15:39, Annalee Sekulić notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi! This is a great project plan to have the common person understand the importance of a changing environment through time. I would love to hear more about the groups you want to engage and how the data will be submitted/visualized!

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WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your comments, and yes, I agree. I am looking at a variety of microfossils - pollen spores, diatoms - as well as phytoliths. Phytoliths are the least accessible as regards reference images and information, for various reasons, but your project should go a long way toward remedying this. And if my project can contribute to your I will be more than happy.

Robin Lewando WestCorkPalaeo, Rearahinagh, Drimoleague, Cork.

www.westcorkpalaeo.com http://www.westcorkpalaeo.com

Mobile: 0830744708

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WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Hi Alexander

Thanks for your comments. And interest. I am building the website myself. I started by using wordpress but I needed more autonomy - principally at the time because I wanted to display interactive OpenLayers maps, so I went on my own. I am using a template for the basic design, but am coding it all myself. A bit of a learning curve, but I was a programmer in my earlier life, so not too bad. It is an iterative process and with the ideas I am getting through the OLS3 most of the existing pages will need to be rewritten - it is very much a work in progress. There are some aspects that I have not yet decided on, most particularly how to display the results of analysis of sediment cores in a meaningful and attractive way. But it is just a matter of time....

Best regards Robin Lewando WestCorkPalaeo, Rearahinagh, Drimoleague, Cork.

www.westcorkpalaeo.com http://www.westcorkpalaeo.com

Mobile: 0830744708

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 16:53, Alexander Martínez Méndez < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi, what a great project, including communities in the construction of knowledge is fundamental. Do you plan to build the website or have you thought about using an existing tool (well if there is one)?

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WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

Repository created - here - https://github.com/WestCorkPalaeo/West-Cork-Palaeoecology

WestCorkPalaeo commented 3 years ago

README.md opened and initialised here - https://github.com/WestCorkPalaeo/West-Cork-Palaeoecology/blob/main/README.md

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