What is Protégé? Protégé is an ontology description platform developed at Stanford’s Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) for creating, sharing, and visualizing web ontologies and taxonomies. Ontologies and taxonomies are descriptors for use in many instances, …
Kent Emerson
Science Seen: Research Bazaar Art Exhibit
Art plays an important role in helping people make sense of complex data in new and exciting ways. Able to see the patterns in data, artists and scientists alike translate information into visual and aesthetic …
Link Roundup January 2020
Jennifer Patiño Twitter has created “Twitter data for academic research”, a resource that provides academics with access to developer accounts, APIs, data integration, analysis, and visualization as well as infrastructure and hosting. A research team …
Link Roundup December 2019
Clare Michaud The Data Science Research Bazaar is still open for registration—until January 2! It’s free for UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff. We have also extended the deadline for submissions to the art exhibit until …
Version Control for Research Projects
Working on individual or collaborative projects of any size requires keeping your files organized. Inconsistent file management can result in lost work, redundancies, errors in the final products, or difficulty for others building on your …
An Introduction to Web Scraping for Research
Like web archiving, web scraping is a process by which you can collect data from websites and save it for further research or preserve it over time. Also like web archiving, web scraping can be …
Link Roundup November 2019
Jennifer Patiño World Digital Preservation Day is November 7th and this year’s theme is “At-Risk Digital Materials.” Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa uncovered a glitch in a computer program that produced different …