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Building a Disciplinary, World-Wide Data Infrastructure
Sharing scientific data, with the objective of making it fully discoverable,
accessible, assessable, intelligible, usable, and interoperable, requires work
at the disciplinary level to define in particular how the data should be
formatted and described. Each discipline has its own organization and history
as a starting point, and this paper explores the way a range of disciplines,
namely materials science, crystallography, astronomy, earth sciences,
humanities and linguistics get organized at the international level to tackle
this question. In each case, the disciplinary culture with respect to data
sharing, science drivers, organization and lessons learnt are briefly
described, as well as the elements of the specific data infrastructure which
are or could be shared with others. Commonalities and differences are assessed.
Common key elements for success are identified: data sharing should be science
driven; defining the disciplinary part of the interdisciplinary standards is
mandatory but challenging; sharing of applications should accompany data
sharing. Incentives such as journal and funding agency requirements are also
similar. For all, it also appears that social aspects are more challenging than
technological ones. Governance is more diverse, and linked to the discipline
organization. CODATA, the RDA and the WDS can facilitate the establishment of
disciplinary interoperability frameworks. Being problem-driven is also a key
factor of success for building bridges to enable interdisciplinary research.Comment: Proceedings of the session "Building a disciplinary, world-wide data
infrastructure" of SciDataCon 2016, held in Denver, CO, USA, 12-14 September
2016, to be published in ICSU CODATA Data Science Journal in 201
Philosopher avec la littérature ?
Dans cette étude, nous examinerons les rapports entre littérature et philosophie tels qu’on les retrouve dans les Cent vingt journées de Sodome de Sade et Philosopher avec la littérature de Pierre Macherey, cela afin d’examiner si la littérature est destinée à être l’objet de la pensée philosophique, ou si la littérature peut également philosopher, encore que littérairement plutôt que conceptuellement. Voilà la question que pose Pierre Macherey. À travers son étude des Cent vingt journées de Sodome, nous verrons comment il y répond. Pour ce faire, nous procéderons dans un premier temps à une brève présentation de la poétique et de la philosophie sadiennes. Nous examinerons ensuite les fondements théoriques de l’approche de Macherey avant de présenter son traitement du roman sadien. Finalement, nous déterminerons à quel point le projet d’une philosophie littéraire est viable et dans quelle mesure le traitement de Macherey se distingue d’une approche interprétative traditionnelle
Italian center for Astronomical Archives publishing solution: modular and distributed
The Italian center for Astronomical Archives tries to provide astronomical
data resources as interoperable services based on IVOA standards. Its VO
expertise and knowledge comes from active participation within IVOA and VO at
European and international level, with a double-fold goal: learn from the
collaboration and provide inputs to the community. The first solution to build
an easy to configure and maintain resource publisher conformant to VO standards
proved to be too optimistic. For this reason it has been necessary to re-think
the architecture with a modular system built around the messaging concept,
where each modular component speaks to the other interested parties through a
system of broker-managed queues. The first implemented protocol, the Simple
Cone Search, shows the messaging task architecture connecting the parametric
HTTP interface to the database backend access module, the logging module, and
allows multiple cone search resources to be managed together through a
configuration manager module. Even if relatively young, it already proved the
flexibility required by the overall system when the database backend changed
from MySQL to PostgreSQL+PgSphere. Another implementation test has been made to
leverage task distribution over multiple servers to serve simultaneously: FITS
cubes direct linking, cubes cutout and cubes positional merging. Currently the
implementation of the SIA-2.0 standard protocol is ongoing while for TAP we
will be adapting the TAPlib library. Alongside these tools a first
administration tool (TASMAN) has been developed to ease the build up and
maintenance of TAP_SCHEMA-ta including also ObsCore maintenance capability.
Future work will be devoted at widening the range of VO protocols covered by
the set of available modules, improve the configuration management and develop
specific purpose modules common to all the service components.Comment: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, Software and
Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy V, pre-publishing draft proceeding (reduced
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