Open Data

Original material Taken from training material by the Open Data Institute. Later material from Keynote at Go Open!

Laser controlled areas (NPL)

Short video produced by the National Physical Laboratories on class 3B and 4 laser controlled areas

Laser alignment (NPL)

Short video on laser alignment produced by the National Physical Laboratory

Laser Eyewear and filters (NPL)

Short video on laser eyewear and filters produced by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Laser classification (NPL)

Short video on laser classification produced by the National Physical Laboratory

WAIS seminar: Publication Workflows for Scientific Data

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Speaker(s): Willi Hasselbring Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 23/04/2014 11:00-11:50 Location: B32/3077 File size: 669 Mb Abstract For good scientific practice, it is important that research results may be properly checked by reviewers and possibly repeated and extended by other researchers. This is of particular interest for "digital science" i.e. for in-silico experiments. In this talk, I'll discuss some issues of how software systems and services may contribute to good scientific practice. Particularly, I'll present our PubFlow approach to automate publication workflows for scientific data. The PubFlow workflow management system is based on established technology. We integrate institutional repository systems (based on EPrints) and world data centers (in marine science). PubFlow collects provenance data automatically via our monitoring framework Kieker. Provenance information describes the origins and the history of scientific data in its life cycle, and the process by which it arrived. Thus, provenance information is highly relevant to repeatability and trustworthiness of scientific results. In our evaluation in marine science, we collaborate with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

WAIS seminar: Application Performance Monitoring and Architecture Discovery with Kieker

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Speaker(s): Willi Hasselbring Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 23/04/2014 14:00-15:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 802Mb Abstract The internal behavior of large-scale software systems cannot be determined on the basis of static (e.g., source code) analysis alone. Kieker provides complementary dynamic analysis capabilities, i.e., monitoring/profiling and analyzing a software system's runtime behavior. Application Performance Monitoring is concerned with continuously observing a software system's performance-specific runtime behavior, including analyses like assessing service level compliance or detecting and diagnosing performance problems. Architecture Discovery is concerned with extracting architectural information from an existing software system, including both structural and behavioral aspects like identifying architectural entities (e.g., components and classes) and their interactions (e.g., local or remote procedure calls). In addition to the Architecture Discovery of Java systems, Kieker supports Architecture Discovery for other platforms, including legacy systems, for instance, inplemented in C#, C++, Visual Basic 6, COBOL or Perl. Thanks to Kieker's extensible architecture it is easy to implement and use custom extensions and plugins. Kieker was designed for continuous monitoring in production systems inducing only a very low overhead, which has been evaluated in extensive benchmark experiments. Please, refer to http://kieker-monitoring.net/ for more information.

WAIS seminar: Computer Science, the Revolution in Schools

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Sue Sentance Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 22/04/2014 15:00-16:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 698 Mb Abstract Until recently, "computing" education in English schools mainly focused on developing general Digital Literacy and Microsoft Office skills. As of this September, a new curriculum comes into effect that provides a strong emphasis on computation and programming. This change has generated some controversy in the news media (4-year-olds being forced to learn coding! boss of the government’s coding education initiative cannot code shock horror!!!!) and also some concern in the teaching profession (how can we possibly teach programming when none of the teachers know how to program)? Dr Sue Sentance will explain the work of Computing At School, a part of the BCS Academy, in galvanising universities to help teachers learn programming and other computing skills. Come along and find out about the new English Computing Revolution - How will your children and your schools be affected? - How will our University intake change? How will our degrees have to change? - What is happening to the national perception of Computer Science?

El papel del Parlamento Andino en los avances, en materia de integración, de los países de la Comunidad Andina entre el 2007 y el 2010

Los retos del sistema internacional, de este tiempo, sugieren la necesidad de Instituciones Internacionales que fomenten la cooperación para la consecución de objetivos comunes que los Estados, por si solos, no podrían afrontar sin altas dificultades; ello, sumado a la globalización, ha creado la necesidad de avanzar en procesos de integración que faciliten dicha cooperación. La Comunidad Andina -CAN- no es ajena a esos retos y por el contrario ha avanzado, a su manera, en una integración subregional para buscar mejores oportunidades para los Países Miembros. Sin embargo las dinámicas del Sistema Internacional son muy cambiantes y cada vez exigen mayores esfuerzos. En ese sentido algunos órganos de la CAN no han podido situarse a la altura de sus retos y la escasa voluntad política de los Estados se ha transformado en el limitante mayor de la adaptación de dichos órganos a las nuevas necesidades. Tal es el caso del Parlamento Andino, un órgano que fue concebido bajo unos parámetros claros y definidos, buscando suplir unas necesidades determinadas y que tras más de tres décadas de su creación no logra satisfacer las mismas. Este trabajo pretende analizar la influencia del Parlamento Andino en el proceso de consolidación de la CAN y evidenciara sus logros y, sobre todo, sus dificultades.

How the Web changes the World and universities (or not)

A look at how the technology of the Web has impacted Universities

Basic HTML & XML

Lecture 1: Basic XML & HTML5 Lecture slides and exercises for reading and writing basic XML and HTML

Browser Inspectors

Use the browser inspector tools to peek at the HTML structure of a page as well as its CSS style.

Análisis del discurso político de los líderes de la transición española y su papel en la construcción democrática en el marco de la teoría de Teun van Dijk. Periodo 1976-1982

En la presente monografía se propondrá responder a la pregunta ¿De qué manera los discursos políticos de los líderes de la Transición española, Adolfo Suárez, Felipe González, Manuel Fraga y Santiago Carrillo, jugaron un papel en la construcción democrática durante las coyunturas políticas vividas entre los años 1976 y 1982 en España? Ante esto, se planea responder que los discursos políticos de los líderes de la Transición española jugaron un papel en la construcción democrática mediante la elaboración de consensos sociales alrededor de los valores democráticos y la construcción de disensos sociales en torno a las ideologías partidarias, que fluctuaron en intensidad según el Modelo de Contexto elaborado a partir de la coyuntura política respectiva.