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View article: Accurate Feature Extraction from Historical Geologic Maps Using Open-Set Segmentation and Detection
Accurate Feature Extraction from Historical Geologic Maps Using Open-Set Segmentation and Detection Open
This study presents a novel AI method for extracting polygon and point features from historical geologic maps, representing a pivotal step for assessing the mineral resources needed for energy transition. Our innovative method involves usi…
View article: How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data
How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data Open
Engineering students used ClassTranscribe, an accessible video player, in multiple engineering courses to view course videos and search for video content. The tool collected detailed timestamped student behavioral data from 1,894 students …
View article: The Inclusive Glossary: An Embedded, Interactive Approach to Accessible and Inclusive Learning
The Inclusive Glossary: An Embedded, Interactive Approach to Accessible and Inclusive Learning Open
To assist students in engineering and related STEM disciplines, we report on the motivation, design, implementation, and evaluation of the Inclusive Glossary, a novel embedded interactive educational tool. The Glossary explains technical t…
View article: System Design, Evaluation and Applications of Domain Term Extraction from Engineering Videos
System Design, Evaluation and Applications of Domain Term Extraction from Engineering Videos Open
Understanding the meanings of domain-specific terms is essential to academic success in college-level STEM courses.However, it can be challenging for students to obtain correct spellings and precise definitions of domain-specific terms fro…
View article: The NAPDC: Stakeholder Input and Strategic Directions
The NAPDC: Stakeholder Input and Strategic Directions Open
In 2021 the United States Department of Agriculture launched a national program called the Open Data Framework (ODF). The ODF program is designed to `build a framework needed to create a neutral and secure data repository and cooperative w…
View article: Experiences in Managing CHEESEHub: A Cloud-based Cybersecurity Education Gateway
Experiences in Managing CHEESEHub: A Cloud-based Cybersecurity Education Gateway Open
CHEESEHub is a web-accessible, public science gateway that hosts containerized, hands-on demonstrations of cybersecurity concepts. There are now a plethora of services and tools designed to simplify modern gateway deployment and configurat…
View article: What Does TERRA-REF’s High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community?
What Does TERRA-REF’s High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community? Open
A core objective of the TERRA-REF project was to generate an open-access reference dataset for the evaluation of sensing technologies to study plants under field conditions. The TERRA-REF program deployed a suite of high-resolution, cuttin…
View article: Securing CHEESEHub: A Cloud-based, Containerized Cybersecurity Education Platform
Securing CHEESEHub: A Cloud-based, Containerized Cybersecurity Education Platform Open
The Cyber Human Ecosystem for Engaged Security Education (CHEESEHub) is an open web platform that hosts community-contributed containerized demonstrations of cybersecurity concepts. In order to maximize flexibility, scalability, and utiliz…
View article: Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration Open
In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth's natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Bottlenecks to informing models with observations have reduced o…
View article: Improving Student Accessibility, Equity, Course Performance, and Lab Skills: How Introduction of ClassTranscribe is Changing Engineering Education at the University of Illinois
Improving Student Accessibility, Equity, Course Performance, and Lab Skills: How Introduction of ClassTranscribe is Changing Engineering Education at the University of Illinois Open
This paper presents three case studies that examined the use of ClassTranscribe in a diverse set of undergraduate engineering classes in 2019 and 2020 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ClassTranscribe, a video viewing syst…
View article: Beyond Modeling: A Roadmap to Community Cyberinfrastructure for Ecological Data-Model Integration
Beyond Modeling: A Roadmap to Community Cyberinfrastructure for Ecological Data-Model Integration Open
In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth's natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Bottlenecks in our ability to process information have reduced o…
View article: Ecosystem Demography Model, version 2.2 (ED-2.2)
Ecosystem Demography Model, version 2.2 (ED-2.2) Open
This version contains all the model developments for ED-2.2 and described in Longo et al. (2019) (https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4309-2019).
View article: Clowder
Clowder Open
Clowder is an open source data management system to support data curation of long tail data and metadata across multiple research domains and diverse data types. Institutions and labs can install and customize their own instance of the fra…
View article: TERRA-REF Data Processing Infrastructure
TERRA-REF Data Processing Infrastructure Open
The Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture Phenotyping Reference Platform (TERRA-REF) provides a data and computation pipeline responsible for collecting, transferring, processing and distributing large volumes of crop …
View article: Brown Dog
Brown Dog Open
Brown Dog is a data transformation service for auto-curation of long-tail data. In this digital age, we have more data available for analysis than ever and this trend will only increase. According to most estimates, 70--80% of this data is…
View article: terraref/documentation: First Draft - alpha release
terraref/documentation: First Draft - alpha release Open
This is a first draft of the TERRA REF documentation associated with the alpha release of the TERRA REF data products.
View article: BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second‐generation bioenergy feedstock production
BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second‐generation bioenergy feedstock production Open
Increasing demand for sustainable energy has led to research and development on the cultivation of diverse plant species for biomass production. To support the research and development required to domesticate and cultivate crops for bioene…
View article: Brown Dog A Science Driven Data Transformation Service
Brown Dog A Science Driven Data Transformation Service Open
With growing diverse volumes of digital data becoming part of modern scientific workflows, many research projects today begin with a process of data wrangling, i.e. finding, manipulating, indexing, cleaning, and bringing together needed da…
View article: An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures
An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures Open
Brown Dog is an extensible data cyberinfrastructure, that provides a set of extensible and distributed data conversion and metadata extraction services to enable access and search within unstructured, un-curated and inaccessible research d…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.9
bety: BETYdb 4.9 Open
Add Time Zone Column to Sites Table Currently, the sites table has a local_time column that is just an offset. It is not often used (only 80 out of 5905 sites currently use it), has integer datatype (so that it can't accommodate half-hour …
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.8
bety: BETYdb 4.8 Open
Added new site-grouping features. Minor bug fixes and upgrades. Ruby 2.1 or greater is now required. Changes Pertinent to PEcAn Users Administrators need to do a database migration. See "Database Changes" below. Summary of Changes New Feat…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.6
bety: BETYdb 4.6 Open
Summary of Changes New API and Use of Proper Datatypes This release adds a new versioned API for adding new trait data and for querying most all data. It updates measurement and statistical data to use the proper datatypes and adds and mod…
View article: pecan: PEcAn 1.4.4: Remote execution from web interface
pecan: PEcAn 1.4.4: Remote execution from web interface Open
The major new feature of this release of PEcAn is the ability to launch workflows from the web interface that then run on remote machines (e.g. clusters, cloud services). For this to work you will need to have ssh access to that remote mac…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.3
bety: BETYdb 4.3 Open
This release implements some long-standing requested database changes, replaces awkward selection boxes used in some forms with autocompletion-enabled fields, and fixes some bugs with cloning of PFTs and generation of Priors images. The pr…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.2.2
bety: BETYdb 4.2.2 Open
The is a minor release to tie up some loose ends, but it also contains one substantial new feature--a script for inserting new managements from data fed in from a CSV file. The primary new feature of this release is a new script, script/in…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.2.1 Critical update to fix SQL constraints
bety: BETYdb 4.2.1 Critical update to fix SQL constraints Open
This is a critical update to correct SQL functions; it also includes miscellaneous other changes. The primary motivation for this release is to correct id-getting SQL functions that are being used to implement a distributed foreign-key con…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.2 New Value Constraints
bety: BETYdb 4.2 New Value Constraints Open
New value constraints for database tables and validations for corresponding models; new RSpec tests; several bug fixes. Many new values constraints have been added to ensure database-integrity. Consistency checks have been added to the dbf…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.1 New Database Uniqueness Constraints
bety: BETYdb 4.1 New Database Uniqueness Constraints Open
New uniqueness constraints for database tables and validations for corresponding models; new RSpec tests; several bug fixes. This release implements several value and uniqueness constraints on database tables aimed at ensuring that the BET…
View article: bety: BETYdb 4.0
bety: BETYdb 4.0 Open
Enhanced API for rOpensci traits package; upgrade to rails 3.2, Ruby 2.1.5. This release upgrades the Rails version from Rails 3.0.18 to Rails 3.2.21 and changes the RVM-specified version of Ruby from version 1.9.3-p429 to version 2.1.5. I…
View article: pecan: NARR and LINKAGES
pecan: NARR and LINKAGES Open
PEcAn Besides bug fixes, this new version of the VM supports fetching the MET data from NARR and converting it to model specific inputs. As well as a new model LINKAGES (https://github.com/araiho/Linkages). BETY Bety is now installed in /h…