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DataOne: Supporting Data Discovery and Access through Social and Technical Infrastructure.pdf
No full textAddressing grand challenge questions requires exploration at broad spatial,
geographic and temporal scales, facilitated through easy access to distributed,
heterogeneous data. DataONE is an interoperable, federated network of data
repositories providing open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described
and easily discovered data about life and the environment. Over the last ten years of
development, both technical and social capacity building has been critical in creating
an infrastructure that meets the current and future needs of the community.
Informed by working group research, community engagement, and usability
evaluation, DataONE has developed a comprehensive search and discovery platform
exposing over 1.2M data files; tools and services that support research
reproducibility, transparency and credit; and data management training and
resources to enhance data literacy. Through these and aligned activities, DataONE
has improved interoperability across a broad coalition of data repositories and
enhanced data practices across a diverse community of researchers, data managers,
and data librarians.DataONE is a community-governed network built in partnership with existing data
repositories supporting distinct and diverse communities. As DataONE continues to
grow from a funded project into a sustained program, this networked, user-driven
approach continues to inform infrastructure development, feature design and
prioritization, maximizing the value and impact of research data in an increasingly
complex, diversified data discovery and use landscape.ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)Amber Budden is the Director of Learning and Outreach at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis where she leads the NCEAS Learning Hub and short course activities. She is an open science facilitator, community manager and data
literacy trainer and serves as a co-lead on several projects, including DataONE, a
community-networked infrastructure supporting Earth and environmental scientists in
their data management, preservation, search and discovery needs. An advocate for
open and transparent science, Amber previously conducted research on article
publication practices before working in the open data landscape. In her current roles,
Amber supports the community in using open science infrastructure and leads training
and outreach activities focused on best practices for data management. Amber has a PhD in behavioral ecology and has conducted postdoctoral research on
avian sexual selection and life-histories at the University of California Berkeley in
addition to bibliometrics research at NCEAS. Amber has held teaching positions at the
University of Toronto and York University in Canada and she has worked in outreach
and publications within the non-profit sector. She is currently a principal investigator on
several cyberinfrastructure awards including DataONE the Arctic Data Centre and the Permafrost Discovery Gateway; is Chair of the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee; Member of the Make Data Count team; Advisory Board member for the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement; and was a board member of the National Postdoctoral Association.Amber holds a PhD in Behavioral Ecology from the University of Wales, a Joint Honors BSc in
Psychology and Zoology from the University of Bristol and qualification in youth and
community work. </div
21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia
No full textWikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the debates around accuracy and review, in the context of geology. He concluded that ‘If Wikipedia is the first port of call, as it already seems to be, for information requirement traffic, then there is a commitment to build on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of various kinds and improve their quality.’ In a similar approach to the Geological Society event that Whalley describes, Sarah Fahmy of JISC worked with Wikimedia and the British Library on a World War One (WWI) Editathon. There is a rich discourse about the way that academics relate to Wikipedia
Dawn, Amber
No full textcurrentMFA, BA (UBC)
Amber Dawn is the author of four books and the editor of three anthologies. Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015) was a finalist for BC Book Award’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Family History of Amber Ball
No full textAmber Renee Ball authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2020 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
My art is killing me, and other poems
No full textShort-listed, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) 2021.In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir "How Poetry Saved My Life". In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmaking takes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within their intricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous. In a cultural era when intersectional and marginalized writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawn invites her readers to take an unflinching look at what we expect from writers, and from each other. Includes a foreword by writer Doretta Lau. --From publisher description.poetrywomen's literatureLGBTQ+lesbian literatur
ozbayb/amber: AMBER v1.0 release for multiphoton fiber bundle imaging
No full textAMBER V1.0
<p><strong>Artefactual Multiphoton Bundle Effect Removal</strong></p>
Description
<p>This release is a collection of functions and an example of a main program that is intended for the use of removing an artifact caused by performing multiphoton imaging through a coherent imaging fiber bundle. Some of the code may need to be modified to be compatible with specific file types for the image stacks. Also required is a "Flat" image, which is a multiphoton image of a flat fluorescent sample through the fiber-bundle acquired under the same conditions as the actual image data stacks to be fixed. The individual image stacks may be time series or Z-stacks and may be a field-of-view smaller than the full surface of the fiber-bundle. A simple rigid registration code allows the centroid locations identified in the flat image to be registered onto the image data.</p>
List of functions:
<ul>
<li>centerPadCrop: Performs a simple central crop</li>
<li>filterValSeries: Temporal/axial filter on each core independently</li>
<li>getCentroidValues: Extracts the values of the cores at the identified centroids</li>
<li>getCorrectorValues: Acquires the correction factors for each core from the flat image</li>
<li>getFiberCentroids: Finds the centroid pixel coordinates for each fiber core</li>
<li>getParameter: Extract specific data from a *.txt file containing imaging metadata</li>
<li>gridFiberCores: Interpolates the core centroids into a uniform pixel grid</li>
<li>makeFiberImage: Uses the centroid locations and values to recreate the fiber images</li>
<li>rigidAlignFiber: Performs a rigid registration of the flat fiber centroids to the actual image field</li>
<li>writeFiberImages: Writes the processed image files to *.tif with metadata (using Bioformats toolbox)</li>
</ul>
<p>Author: Baris N. Ozbay, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Bioengineering</p>
Traditional Amber jewellery and traditional Latvian plaid long skirt
No full textTwo women wearing Amber jewellery and a traditional Latvian plaid long skirt14.1.2 Use of Amber in modern Alberta Latvian cultural celebrations, 1.1.2 Yearly celebrations of Imant
How poetry saved my life: A hustler's memoir
No full textA memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline. Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape--the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This story, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, which--as the title suggests--acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments.
As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature. --From publisher description.Women's literatureBiography & MemoirLGBTQ+Lesbian literatur
Where the words end and my body begins
No full textAward-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a suite of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets, such as the legendary Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich, as well as contemporaries like Leah Horlick, Rachel Rose, and Trish Salah. (Glosas, a 15th-century Spanish form, typically open with a quatrain from an existing poem by another writer, followed by four stanzas of ten lines each, and usually end with a line repeated from the opening quatrain.)
By doing so, Amber Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work. --From publisher description.poetry bookPoetryLGBTQ+Lesbian literatureWomen's literatur
Possible fossil fish in amber
No full textThe author describes possible fossil fish remains trapped in amber. The remains were identified in fragments of amber from Cretaceous of Myanmar and from Pliocene of Madagascar. Although these remains leave margins of uncertainty in their interpretation, the reported discoveries nevertheless fill the gap represented by the absence of reports of fossil fish in amber, despite the fact that many recent evidences have definitively demonstrated the presence of inclusions derived from organisms living in aquatic habitat in many ambers of various origins and antiquities. The remains described here potentially indicate that the fish trapped in amber may have belonged to fish of both possible freshwater limnetic and possible marine littoral environment
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