Sky Bristol

The Software Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to software assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Software Reference Library houses items that describe software. In general one of the primary functions of these items is to provide direction to source code that may exist on USGS infrastructure (e.g., myUSGS BitBucket Server) and/or in a third party repository...

The Data Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to data assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Data Reference Library houses data items that are either native to the ScienceBase Repository or metadata items that point to third party data services from other repositories.

USGS Citizen Science Project Discovery & Public Engagement Web Application

http://txpub.usgs.gov/myscience/ (content no longer available) This web application is a product of the 2013 CDI Project: myScience: USGS Citizen Science Project Discovery & Public Engagement Web Application. The application leverages existing Community for Data Integration (CDI) and USGS work to allow unprecedented public access to USGS citizen science project metadata and highlights of key science outcomes. The application enables, for the first time, high-visibility, unified open access to information about projects and practices related to citizen participation in USGS research.

The Research Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to data assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Research Reference Library houses research references; generally, scientific papers and other information assets. In general citation records point to and use authoritative identifiers like DOIs and contain information directly from those sources and cached in...

New Mexico Species from BISON-M system

This is an experimental collection of State species of interest from the New Mexico Heritage Society's "Biota Information System of New Mexico." There is interest from a NM Game and Fish Department contact in updating their connection with GAP species as well as discovering a new way to directly connect to live data on Species of Greatest Conservation Need. We are experimenting with a way to pick up all species and run them through the TIR process. The current BISON-M web application provides no smooth way that we could find to interface with software (including web scraping), so we ran a brute force query for all species in the database, copied the raw tabular text output to a text file, and then wrote a simple...