Prerequisites: experience with Python (useful) and Javascript programming (essential). It may be useful to be willing to learn about functional programming (but this is not essential). Jupyter notebooks [1] are examples of literate programming [2] where code and outputs from the code as well as documentation are in the same application. Jupyter allows the user … full description “Jupyter notebooks (available)”
Supervisor: Hugh Shanahan
Active: updated 5-MAR-2024 (OSAA035) no expiry
Prototyping access to FAIR digital objects (available)
Open data drives much of research. The FAIR principles are a set of general principles on how to enable sharing of open data. The workflow for programmatic access of such data requires developing an understanding of the API (usually with RESTful interface) of the relevant data set even if one has the relevant Persistent Identifier … full description “Prototyping access to FAIR digital objects (available)”
Visualising global accessibility of open data resources via traceroute (available)
Research depends on data that is openly available. Recently, it has become clear that access to repositories that store these data sets is variable across the country that accesses the data. This can be due to poor connectivity for Lower income countries to countries that are actively blocked from accessing specific sites. A set of … full description “Visualising global accessibility of open data resources via traceroute (available)”