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Data from: Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis
No full textBACKGROUND: Recently, various evolution-related journals adopted policies to encourage or require archiving of phylogenetic trees and associated data. Such attention to practices that promote data sharing reflects rapidly improving information technology, and rapidly expanding potential to use this technology to aggregate and link data from previously published research. Nevertheless, little is known about current practices, or best practices, for publishing phylogenetic trees and associated data in a way that promotes re-use. RESULTS: Here we summarize results of an ongoing analysis of current practices for archiving phylogenetic trees and associated data, current practices of re-use, and current barriers to re-use. We find that the technical infrastructure is available to support rudimentary archiving, but the frequency of archiving is low. Currently, most phylogenetic knowledge is not easily re-used due to a lack of archiving, lack of awareness of best practices, and lack of community-wide standards for formatting data, naming entities, and annotating data. Most attempts at data re-use seem to end in disappointment. Nevertheless, we find many positive examples of data re-use, particularly those that involve customized species trees generated by grafting to, and pruning from, a mega-tree. CONCLUSIONS: The technologies and practices that facilitate data re-use can catalyze synthetic and integrative research. However, success will require engagement from various stakeholders including individual scientists who produce or consume shareable data, publishers, policy-makers, technology developers and resource-providers. The critical challenges for facilitating re-use of phylogenetic trees and associated data, we suggest, include: a broader commitment to public archiving; more extensive use of globally meaningful identifiers; development of user-friendly technology for annotating, submitting, searching, and retrieving data and their metadata; and development of a minimum reporting standard (MIAPA) indicating which kinds of data and metadata are most important for a re-useable phylogenetic record
Early examples of the ionic capital. 7: Corner Capital – Delos Museum
No full textThe dataset originated in a study of the early development of the Ionic capital, which was particularly concerned with the relationship between the elongate Cycladic form and the more symmetrical and eventually dominant Ionian. In the course of the study a number of exemplars were surveyed by laser scanning, and reconstructed digitally using a parametric surface modeller. Both the surveyed and the reconstructed forms were prepared in formats suitable for 3D reproduction by rapid prototyping. This exemplar represents a corner capital from the Delos Museum.Point clouds are in .asc ASCII point cloud format. 3D models are in .3dm openNURBS (Rhinoceros 3D) format (https://www.rhino3d.com/opennurbs)
Early examples of the ionic capital
No full textThe dataset originated in a study of the early development of the Ionic capital, which was particularly concerned with the relationship between the elongate Cycladic form and the more symmetrical and eventually dominant Ionian. In the course of the study a number of exemplars were surveyed by laser scanning, and reconstructed digitally using a parametric surface modeller. Both the surveyed and the reconstructed forms were prepared in formats suitable for 3D reproduction by rapid prototyping. The exemplars represented include:
1. Naxian sphinx – Delphi Museum;
2. Votive column of Alexitides, Sangri – Naxos Museum 8;
3. Temple at Yria – Naxos Muesum;
4. Votive capital – Paros Museum 775;
5. Votive column of Archilochos – Paros Museum 733;
6. Votive with sphinx – Delos Museum 583;
7. Corner capital – Delos Museum;
8. Votive from Oropos – National Museum Athens 4797;
9. Athena Nike, Athens – British Museum London;
10. Myus – Pergamon Museum, Berlin;
11. Erechtheion, Athens – British Museum London;
12. Propylaea – Athens - in situ.Point clouds are in .asc ASCII point cloud format. Solid models are in .stl stereolithography format: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format). Images are in JPEG format
Dataset for "A study of public understanding of and response to climate change in the South of England"
No full textThe thesis "A study of public understanding of and response to climate change in the South of England" reports the results of a postal survey questionnaire designed to determine the range and salience of influences on understanding of, and behavioural responses to, climate change within a representative population. The questionnaire comprised 8 pages of quantitative and qualitative questions grouped into four sections: General environmental concerns and experiences; Awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour in relation to climate change; Environmental values, worldview and actions; and Demographic measures. This dataset contains the chi-square results for question 24 (attitudes to climate change) and question 26 (motivations for impact-orientated environmental actions) from this survey, corresponding to appendices 5.4 and 5.5 of the thesis, respectively.Full details of the questionnaire design, sampling procedures, and data input and analysis procedures may be found in section 3.4.2 of the associated thesis.The data is provided in MS Excel 2003 (binary) format
Dataset for "Higher Level Techniques for the Artistic Rendering of Images and Video"
Full text linkThis dataset contains images and videos demonstrating several Artistic Rendering algorithms presented in the thesis "Higher Level Techniques for the Artistic Rendering of Images and Video". In contrast to techniques that consider only a small image region local to each rendering stroke, or only the current and preceding frame in a video, these algorithms use a higher spatio-temporal level of analysis to broaden the range of potential rendering styles, enhance temporal coherence in animations, and improve the aesthetic quality of renderings.
The images in the dataset are high resolution versions of paintings presented in the thesis (chapters 3 and 4). The videos exhibit various renderings or source footage for the ‘ballet’, ‘basketball’, ‘bounce’, ‘contraption’, ‘cricket’, ‘metronome’, ‘poohbear’, ‘sheep’, ‘spheres’, ‘stairs’, ‘volley’, ‘wand’, and ‘wave’ video sequences (chapters 6 to 8).Full details of the algorithms used to render the images and video footage can be found in the associated thesis.The files listed with the ‘wave’ prefix in Appendix C of the thesis were given the prefix ‘bearwave’ on the accompanying DVD-ROM. These have been renamed in this dataset to match the names given in the thesis. The ‘papers’ directory from the DVD-ROM is not included in this dataset.The images are primarily in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), with one file in PDF. The videos are primarily in Audio Video Interleave (AVI) format, with two in MPEG video format
Audio files for "Algorithmic composition and musical form"
No full textThis dataset consists of 14 audio tracks generated by the algorithmic composition systems described in the associated thesis.
The thesis proposes that certain simple intra-musical meanings are closely related to the role of repetition and variation in music, as well as Gestalt grouping principles, and are often what makes music interesting to listen to. It describes the development and evaluation of three algorithmic composition systems that attempt to impart a degree of ‘meaning’ in their output.The methods by which the compositions were generated are documented in the associated thesis.The files are in Waveform Audio File (WAV) format
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