Week 35

Summary:

This week started with the involvement in the preparation and execution of various ‘carpentry’ workshops. Subsequently, we started designing and developing a new touch table application for use in the university library. This application is focused on the Abel Prize, which was won this year by the French mathematician Yves Meyer.

Specific activities, including:

• Activities related to the upcoming Library Carpentry workshop on data processing and visualization in June (Hugo, Ahmed, Dan Michael)
  •  Testing data processing and visualization tools (Google Sheets, RAW, OpenRefine, Plot.ly)
• Creating a touch table application for the Abel Prize in mathematics
  • Design (using Sketch) and interactivity (using the open source XIMPEL framework) (Hugo)
  • Development of ‘swipe’ functionality, analytics and contributing this to the XIMPEL source code (Dan Michael)
  • Content (suggesting related books and videos, creating biographies) and design support (Karoline, Linn)

Meetings, including:

• Introducing the Realfagsbiblioteket and the Visual Navigation Project (Nina, Hugo, Dan Michael)
• Discussing LC datasets & the way forward for the Library Carpentry workshop (Hugo, Ahmed, Dan Michael)
  • Devising initial schedule for the day
    • Two or three cycles of “data cleaning” using OpenRefine followed by “data processing” in Google Spreadsheets and “visualization” in Google Spreadsheets, Plot.ly and RAW.
  • Selecting which datasets to use:
    • New physical materials (Alma)
    • Popular searches (Primo)
    • Requests and Loans datasets (Alma) (if time allows)
• Acting as additional “helpers” in a data carpentry workshop on SQL (Dan Michael, Kyrre, [Hugo])
• Short meeting on content and design of Abel Prize touch table application (Hugo, Karoline, Linn)