Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar, 3/4/16
When: Friday,
March 4, 2016
2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
Where: Textiles Building 101E
Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Special Seminar
Friday, March 4th 2016
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Mr. Zachary Painter, Assistant Librarian / Library Information Services at UMD
TOPIC:
Introductory Data Management Concepts
WORKFLOWS AND RELATED SOFTWARE:
Project Jupyter/IPython Notebook (these are coming under the same banner now; I've used the latter a little myself) and Taverna & VisTrails (VT being a project our own David Koop worked on at Utah). While I talk about workflow management I will make references to:
-How to discuss things like project/group management (how to discuss checking backups, or who works on what)
-Transfer of knowledge and documentation (what happens if someone were to leave, for example)
-Metadata standards (like Dublin Core)
Version Control Software
Git & Mercurial (I'll do a short comparison of the two as well; Git is the one I have used and am most familiar with). While I talk about Versioning, I will make references to:
-Best practices for file naming conventions (like ISO 8601 Date Format, for example)
-How many copies of your work to keep (Local/Near/Far, or the 3-2-1 rule of storage)
-Issues behind data sharing (privacy/security/funding mandates/publication/etc.).
BIO:
Zac Painter is the Engineering & Data Services Librarian here at UMass Dartmouth. Prior to coming to UMassD in August 2014, Zac worked as an ontologist and scientific data manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency; a position he started while finishing his graduate studies as a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Zac is an Advisory Board member for the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Engineering Division of the Special Libraries Association; he is also a Personal Member of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL).
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coodinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
Friday, March 4th 2016
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Mr. Zachary Painter, Assistant Librarian / Library Information Services at UMD
TOPIC:
Introductory Data Management Concepts
WORKFLOWS AND RELATED SOFTWARE:
Project Jupyter/IPython Notebook (these are coming under the same banner now; I've used the latter a little myself) and Taverna & VisTrails (VT being a project our own David Koop worked on at Utah). While I talk about workflow management I will make references to:
-How to discuss things like project/group management (how to discuss checking backups, or who works on what)
-Transfer of knowledge and documentation (what happens if someone were to leave, for example)
-Metadata standards (like Dublin Core)
Version Control Software
Git & Mercurial (I'll do a short comparison of the two as well; Git is the one I have used and am most familiar with). While I talk about Versioning, I will make references to:
-Best practices for file naming conventions (like ISO 8601 Date Format, for example)
-How many copies of your work to keep (Local/Near/Far, or the 3-2-1 rule of storage)
-Issues behind data sharing (privacy/security/funding mandates/publication/etc.).
BIO:
Zac Painter is the Engineering & Data Services Librarian here at UMass Dartmouth. Prior to coming to UMassD in August 2014, Zac worked as an ontologist and scientific data manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency; a position he started while finishing his graduate studies as a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Zac is an Advisory Board member for the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Engineering Division of the Special Libraries Association; he is also a Personal Member of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL).
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coodinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
Topical Areas: University Community, Mechanical Engineering