We have started to put some of our IGIBS data into GeoDoc. We will have a couple of datasets showing land use change particularly for forestry for the whole of the Dyfi catchment . There is also some more detailed data from vegetation surveys looking at a series of plots from the different habitat types found in […]
My apologies to the Duke of Wellington for mutating his often quoted call to a jilted mistress about his intimate letters, but the sentiments in the original statement do suggest the power of the publication process to give information a life of its own. If geospatial data were published in a similar way to research […]
I guess that anyone reading this will already know that Shibboleth is an open source federated user authentication infrastructure that allows control of user sign-on between or within an organisation/s. I had a vague memory from childhood Sunday School classes that there was an older meaning to the word apart from the Times crossword type definition of […]
Why is this relevant to IGIBS? I almost hear you say… well there are many reasons but for me the relevance lies in one of the outcomes for the project which is a “best practice model” for a university department’s interaction with the academic SDI. Clearly the INSPIRE regulation could have a very significant impact […]
I have been reading and thinking about the relationship between long term spatial data preservation and the short term needs of day-to-day data security during the life of a research project. With research data being generated at faster and faster rates and the life cycles of supporting technologies getting shorter data preservation is destined to be a […]
Just a brief update on the progress of the project here at Aberystwyth. We now have Lucile Lemaire visiting from France with her experience in vegetation surveying and she is hard at work recording data from randomly selected areas of the Dyfi Biosphere. This is time consuming work and made especially difficult as she is using […]
Alisdair is a PhD case study for the IGIBS project. He is 8 months into a PhD that is developing a tool to interpret almost ant kind of imagery into part of a time line for mapping habitat change. You can view his university profile here. He says that the key descriptors for this work are […]
Today we had a Meeting with Mike Bailey, the Countryside Council For Wales (CCW) manager of the 2,300 Hectare Dyfi National Nature Reserve (NNR) that sits in the Western end of the Dyfi catchment. This NNR has areas of raised bog, sand dune and estuary within its boarders. Of particular interest for many of the […]
As you know from previous blog entries the Dyfi Virtual Observatory (DVO) is a similar project to IGIBS and is also based at Aberystwyth. I had a meeting with Nicola from the DVO yesterday and we agreed to help each other out with data sets where possible. I thought it would be good to give a […]
A quick hello from your newest member (Steve Walsh) I now have my feet under the desk at Aberystwyth and look forward to working with you all. I will try and keep up regular blogs on developments…. I had a meeting with Jonathan Brownett yesterday and got some very useful insights into the use of […]