Author: julie

Reading – taxonomoy and classification stuff:
http://dublincore.org/metadata-basics/
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei.) (Chapter 2)
CDWA (Categories for Describing Works of Art http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/moreinfo.html
CDWALite http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/cdwalite.html
COO (Cataloging Cultural Objects) http://cco.vrafoundation.org/
Data and Metadata: An Interview with Murtha Baca and Erin Coburn (Cabinet Magazine) http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/13/meltzer_meltzer.php

GETTY The Art & Architecture Thesaurus: http://datahub.io/dataset/getty-aat (links through to all sorts, inc SPARQL endpoint)

Interesting things:
Yahoo’s search engine experiment that uses linked data
https://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/siteowner.html

Artworks:
http://www.floodtide.eu/ by John Eacott. Very much about the live data used by sculptures, musicians, singers and web instruments to play the tidal activity as a score.
Interview him about connectedness to nature and the importance of liveness?

Thesis:
LaTeX training https://www.overleaf.com/help/28-im-new-to-latex-how-do-i-use-it#.VNIQoGSsVho
Finalise thesis template, Data Model paper template and work out referencing horrors.

(2/3 Feb 15)

Meetings:
Madi Solomon https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisolomon
Supervisor meeting (MS)

Thesis:
Prepared LaTeX template on overleaf.com – woohoo

Reading to do:
the Data Revolution (book by Kitchin)
couple of taxonomy papers

Taxonomy:
Sent pre-pilot trial to students to request data descriptions.
Updated questions and continued mapping tax to data concepts.

NMR:
Spoke to Ho regarding spec for building the tracking system. He’s going to give feedback.

Artist:
http://www.zimoun.net/- not data but kinetic objects and audio

NMR:

  • could the date they produce be a form of currency – another BitCoin. NMRcoin? How can I try and implement this, and what would peers run in conjunction with accessing the NMR data that would start to build coins?

WNU:

  • have live music accompanying the recitals, i.e. Iris Garrelfs, the London Improvisation Orchestra, etc.
  • add additional titles for each composition. Each individual project would then have a name like a triple store: subject-predicate-object i.e. weneedus-fadingfromview-snapshotserengeti

Research:
Card sort papers. I need to run two card sorts, one which uses my categories and one with open categories. These can be two initial studies, and then whichever works out best can be used for the main survey.
Should be careful with a large set of participants that the data is still analysable. I think with the

Linked Data Book: http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/

To view:
http://www.slideshare.net/accessinnovations/taxonomy-fundamentals-workshop
http://www.inflexions.org/issues.html#i7

http://openhumanitiespress.org/
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/11135951/FrontPage
http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Partial_Life

Reading:
Antiphonal Vocalization of a Subterranean Rodent, the Naked Mole-Rat. DOI 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01371.x

To read:
Art Post-Internet http://post-inter.net
Interactive Data Viz Strategies and Key Tech: http://cdn.expertwhitepapers.net/wp/YTL03305USEN1/YTL03305USEN1.PDF

Notes:
Antiphonal music is music that is performed by two semi-independent choirs in interaction, often singing alternate musical phrases.
DS has been recording Zebra Finches, ask him for device and analysis advice

NMR:
queen has an elongated vertebrae, usually climbs over the top of the others (dominance)
genomes – what can i do with this data? relevance?
vocalisation recording – how can I test for ultrasonic sound emissions? what mic set-up should I use?

Management:
Allocating time in diary, planning days.
Unblocking library access!
Emails to CF and GW

Safety in Numbers? data and art article

Frieze Magazine | Archive | Safety in Numbers?. Algorithms, Big Data and surveillance: what’s the response, and responsibility, of art? Jörg Heiser asked seven artists, writers and academics to reflect.

Nato doc on The Nature of Data

PDF: http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/PubFullText/RTO/TR/RTO-TR-HFM-073/TR-HFM-073-ANN-I.pdf 1 INTRODUCTION The term “data” is used here in the broadest possible sense. Data are mere basic observations, which are real, not assumed or hypothesized. Data should neither be underrated nor overrated in their importance. They should certainly never be confused with the concept of absolute truth. Data can be thought of as the foundation of an… Continue reading Nato doc on The Nature of Data

data.nature.com – linked data

Home : data.nature.com. Triple count: 389,357,371 (389.3 million) The NPG Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. Two different interfaces are provided: /query – a form interface for interactive queries, and /sparql – a service endpoint for remote queries.

Open Definition (OKF)

The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content. It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby ensures interoperability between different pools of open material. It can be summed up in the statement that: “A piece of data or content… Continue reading Open Definition (OKF)

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Open Database License ODbL

Open Data Commons Open Database License ODbL Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases Human-readable summary Full legal text of current version (v1.0) How to Apply Insert prominently in all relevant locations a statement such as (replacing {DATA(BASE)-NAME} with the name of your data/database): This {DATA(BASE)-NAME} is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights… Continue reading Open Database License ODbL

Maps as Pieces of Art

  Artists Turn City Maps Into Pieces of Art | Experience cities like a local!.

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Ronald Coase – Wikiquote

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” via Ronald Coase – Wikiquote.

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TreeSoft: TreeBeST

TreeSoft: TreeBeST. TreeBeST, which stands for (gene) Tree Building guided by Species Tree, is a versatile program that builds, manipulates and displays phylogenetic trees. It is particularly designed for building gene trees with a known species tree and is highly efficient and accurate. Potential tool to look into to see the NMR data on http://naked-mole-rat.org/gene_expression/

Unnumbered Sparks

Unnumbered Sparks. For TED’s 30th anniversary, artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin collaborated to createUnnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night the sculpture became a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas. The sculpture spanned 745 feet between buildings in downtown Vancouver, Canada from… Continue reading Unnumbered Sparks

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Drawing by Numbers

http://www.translatingnature.org/drawing-by-numbers/ http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/events/media_space_events/drawing_by_numbers.aspx With Simon Emberton – an experiment in capturing the essence of a life drawing as a piece of computer code may see it.

Lifestreams | Proboscis

Lifestreams | Proboscis. Lifestreams Proboscis has been commissioned as part of Anglia Ruskin University’s Visualise programme to collaborate with Philips R&D UK, based in Cambridge Science Park. Over 6 months or so we will be exchanging ideas and iterating prototypes that  address issues of personal motivation, continuity and relevance in the use of health monitoring technologies for… Continue reading Lifestreams | Proboscis

Phrases

“spatial agenda” from Christian Möller src: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/algorithmic_art/#information – as in what is the spatial agenda of the NMR structures? Are they evoking life, providing info, declaring presence?

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Information at MOMA (1970)

‘Information’, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, claimed to be the first conceptual art exhibition mounted by a U.S. museum. Catalogue: http://www.moma.org/pdfs/docs/press_archives/4483/releases/MOMA_1970_July-December_0003_69.pdf?2010 This exhibition is a seminal one in terms of current information / media / data art. Ensure reference in thesis. The PDF is downloaded to Papers library. Would be good… Continue reading Information at MOMA (1970)

Monoskop

Monoskop, a wiki for art, culture and media technology.

via Monoskop.

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electric adj. 1640s, first used in English by physician Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, apparently coined as Modern Latin electricus literally “resembling amber” by English physicist William Gilbert 1540-1603 in treatise “De Magnete” 1600, from Latin electrum “amber,” from Greek elektron “amber” Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, also “pale gold” a compound of 1 part silver to 4 of gold; of unknown origin. Originally the word described substances which, like amber, attract other substances when rubbed. Meaning “charged with electricity” is from 1670s; the physical force so called because it first was generated by rubbing amber. In many modern instances, the word is short for electrical.

Figurative sense is attested by 1793. Electric toothbrush first recorded 1936; electric typewriter 1958.

via Online Etymology Dictionary.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber

Senescence

From wikipedia: Senescence (from Latin: senescere, meaning “to grow old,” from senex) or biological aging is the process of accumulative changes to molecular and cellular structure that disrupts metabolism with the passage of time, resulting in deterioration and eventually bringing about death. Senescence occurs both on the level of the whole organism (organismal senescence) as well as on the level of its individual cells (cellular senescence).  Species with… Continue reading Senescence

_Big Bang Data | CCCB LAB

_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curated by José Luis de Vicente and Olga Subirós with ZZZINC activities management. In the lead up to the opening in May 2014, CCCB LAB offers a window into the production process through a series of articles in which the curators offer a preview of the… Continue reading _Big Bang Data | CCCB LAB

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Cymatics (Hans Jenny)

In 1967, Jenny published the first volume of Cymatics: The Study of Wave Phenomena. The second volume came out in 1972, the year he died. This book was a written and photographic documentation of the effects of sound vibrations on fluids, powders, and liquid paste. He concluded, “This is not an unregulated chaos; it is a dynamic but ordered pattern.” Jenny made use… Continue reading Cymatics (Hans Jenny)

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#quantifiedDeath (conservation)

In a Frontiers of Ecology paper provocatively entitled “Counting the books while the library burns”, CEED researchers Professor David Lindenmayer and Dr Maxine Piggott of the Australian National University, and Assoc. Professor Brendan Wintle of the University of Melbourne warn that some conservation programs are standing by and watching species die out. They produce evidence that many wildlife… Continue reading #quantifiedDeath (conservation)

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