Interpreting Harvested Metadata vs Documented Metadata
Hannah has managed to load the documents that she created by harvesting metadata from papers into the CIM document viewer (needs link). Hannah's documents used the ChemicalTagger software and the...
View ArticleHow do we link a metadata record to its data?
One would think that there would be a simple solution to the problem of linking data and metadata but it turns out that Ben Goldacre's maxim "I think you'll find its a bit more complicated than that"...
View ArticleQuestioning CIM Metadata
The CIM portal development is now in the hands of the ES-Doc team and they are having a coding sprint this week. So we need to offer them a list of typical questions that we expect users to ask of...
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Integrating PIMMS into the Simulation Workflow
Thanks to everyone at the NCAS staff meeting who came and talked to me about Integrating PIMMS into thier workflow. My particular thanks go to Steve Woolnough from the CASCADE project who provided...
View ArticleOpen Repositories 2012
PIMMS will be presenting our work blending the Metafor climate science controlled vocabularies with the University of Cambridge Chemical Tagger natural language processing software at an Open...
View ArticlePIMMS Catch Up
Summer holidays and the mad month of meetings AKA September have put pay to our regular PIMMS blog posts. But we're back and firing on all cylinders so here is a catch up of how we're doing on the...
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CIM experiments for Cascade
With the new CIM experiment generator in place (www.puma.nerc.ac.uk/cimexpgen) scientists from the Cascade project have been able to start producing Experiment descriptions for their project. In...
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Talks given at JISC MRD, October 2012
Included here are the PIMMS talks given at the JISC MRD review meeting in Nottingham, 2012. 1) Gerard Devine...."Documenting Simulation Workflow in the 'Cascade' Cloud Modelling Project" 2) Charlotte...
View ArticlePIMMS Benefits
The JISC Managing Research Data Programme has asked all their projects to explain how they intend to gather evidence about the benefits their projects will bring to their communities. This is the...
View Article#pimmsmrd Twitter Hash Tag for PIMMS
The PIMMS project now has its own twitter hash tag #pimmsmrd which stands for PIMMS Managing Research Data We will use the #pimmsmrd hash tag for our dissemination work and also encourage users of the...
View ArticleUsing subversion to capture modifications to controlled vocabularies
Subversion has trunk and branches and tags and commit messages to record provenance. Controlled vocabularies have supersets and branches, these need tagging and provenance information about updates...
View ArticlePIMMS and ERMITAGE
How and why PIMMS and ERMITAGE have been collaborating ERMITAGE stands for Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for the Assessment of Global Environmental change http://ermitage.cs.man.ac.uk/ It...
View ArticlePIMMS abstract submitted to EGU
We submitted this abstract about PIMMS to the Metadata, Data Models and Semantics session at the EGU (European Geophysical Union) general assembly in April. Title: PIMMS tools for capturing metadata...
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PIMMS Workshop at the University of Bristol
Many thanks to the PEGBOARD team for inviting us to come and talk to the paeleo climate modellers in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol today. There were about 20...
View ArticleMetafor Publish in Geoscientific Model Development
Our parent project, Metafor, have published a great GMD article which describes the Metafor Methodology on which PIMMS is based. Describing Earth System Simulations with the Metafor CIM. Go Read!
View ArticleAnnouncing Two PIMMS Workshops
Demonstration of the PIMMS metadata infrastructure for simulation documentation http://pimms.ceda.ac.uk PIMMS will be holding two dissemination workshops: February 14th at the University of...
View ArticlePIMMS Dissemination Workshops
In February and March the PIMMS team ran two dissemination workshops in Bristol and in Reading. The Bristol participants were mainly paeleo climate modellers, they generally all use the same model but...
View ArticlePIMMS workshop: Web Engineering for Research Management
Many thanks to Emma Tonkin for her insightful blog post about the PIMMS workshop in Bristol. She has really captured something of the atmosphere of the day as well as the techie stuff. Go check it...
View ArticlePIMMS at EGU
The PIMMS project has had our abstract accepted by the Metadata, Data Models and Semantics session at the EGU (European Geophysical Union) general assembly in April. We have an oral presentation on...
View ArticleDissemination Events in 2013
The JISC MRD PIMMS project comes to an end at the end of March in 2 Weeks time! But that is not the end of PIMMS activities, here is a list of the upcoming dissemination events planned for 2013. NCAS...
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