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Publishing with FigShare

Posted: September 6th, 2012

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“Publishing 2.0” was an unconference session at this year’s dotastronomy conference, and FigShare was one of the new tools discussed in this session. In a nutshell, FigShare is a free online repository for scientific results from all disciplines. Created in 2011 by then-PhD student Mark Hahnel on Mediawiki software, it is now supported by Digitial Science. Apart [...]

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Alyssa Goodman: Seamless Astronomy

Posted: August 30th, 2012

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Alyssa Goodman gave one of the keynote talks at .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg. Her talk about ‘Seamless Astronomy’ is now online at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/seamless-astronomy-alyssa-goodman/.

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August Muench: Astronomy Dataverse

Posted: August 23rd, 2012

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August Muench’s talk: Astronomy Dataverse is now online in the .Astronomy 4 archive at http://dotastronomy.com/events/four/astronomy-dataverse-august-muench/. Go take a look at how linked data could work.

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Astroworld, mapping astronomical facilities worldwide

Posted: August 20th, 2012

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I am not sure this deserves the title of a hack, but it was originally meant to be. Since the last Citizen Cyberscience Hackfest in South Africa last November, I have wanted to try EpiCollect, a tool for crowdsourced data collection/citizen science. The interesting thing with EpiCollect is that it automatically generates an Android and [...]

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.AstroPlayer

Posted: August 17th, 2012

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Following our experiences in Leiden and Oxford, we took the decision to put the talks from .Astronomy 4 online afterwards rather than stream them live. This was partly for technical/logistical reasons but also because I knew we could provide a better, curated, experience. During the talks I recorded audio directly from the planetarium sound system [...]

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Word Matrices from the Literature

Posted: August 16th, 2012

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Following on from my previous post about Astronomy Data Mining, I’ve been doing more work on the project. By correlating words that appear together in the literature, you can see relationships between different terms in astronomical research. Read more on Orbiting Frog.

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Unproceedings

Posted: August 16th, 2012

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Part of the aim of this site is that we build up an archive of all .Astronomy talks and hacks for reference. For the first .Astronomy conference in Cardiff proceedings were produced (I still have some if you want a copy!). For the second and third events no proceedings were produced: they take a very [...]

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