Mapping the Violence

Posted in All Things Spatial on March 29th, 2007 by Claudia Engel

From the BBC News. Interesting GUI, which includes a timeline. Flash based map with powerful message.

Monthly figures for civilian casualties are from Iraq Body Count which uses at least two media reports as the source for each death. We have used a mean number of IBC’s minimum and maximum figures for each month.

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Learning 2.0

Posted in Collaboration & Learning, Noteworthy Bits on March 29th, 2007 by Claudia Engel

This is an online self-discovery program that encourages the exploration of web 2.0 tools and new technologies, specifically 23 Things.

Not that we would not know, but this is a handy collection of links, topics, and examples as show-and-tell material.

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Collaborative Research Platform for Science: Bioportal

Posted in Collaboration & Learning on March 22nd, 2007 by Claudia Engel
The Bioportal is designed to train students and to empower researchers and provides both access to applications and a collaborative environment. Developed using the Open Grid Computing Environment (OGCE) portal toolkit, this is a shared, extensible bioinformatics portal. The bioportal can be deployed on any linux system and is currently deployed as the NC Bioportal and over TeraGrid resources. The portal may be customized by each site but a typical delployment would provide access to over one hundred bioinformatics applications, access to cluster computational resources, secure access to remote files through GridFTP, desktop and collaboratory tools, such as calendar, bookmarks and news, and job management tools, with the ability to monitor jobs and save your results.

The app is developed by the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Coincidentally their director, Daniel A. Reed, recently presented in Second Life on talk on the future of technology and the 3-D net.

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