Wednesday 13 February 2013

SOS for CLIDB Mid-term - we got data

Based on the "vanilla" code from the 52North SVN repository I basically added a CLIDBHelper class to the "52n-sos-hibernate-core" Maven module that encapsulates the CLIDB database connection and re-directed most of the original Hibernate calls from the core DAOs to the helper.

Especially the Cache Feeder DAO needed a lot of attention, as it would fill the internal "capabilities" cache, which is the basic thing that needs to happen before the SOS instance is actually usable.

Then Describe Sensor DAO and GetObservation DAO are pretty straightforward, as they would "just" do specific queries, like give me the sensor description for sensor station XY or give rainfall data for station XY in the time period ...

Link to the full eResearch blog post


Final NZ Summer of eResearch 2012 presentation slides


The final student project presentations were held in Wellington at Victoria University.

Link to the slides of the final student project presentation




Monday 4 February 2013

Random Reflections

Kia Ora :-)

The last weeks, two months were packed with experiences, developments, progress. I would like to shortly summarise the main three happenings. It is great to see progress and experience interest in that progress, so I'd like to share that, too :-)

New Zealand Hydrological Society Conference 2012, Nelson and the Data Access Workshop





New Zealand Summer of eResearch (Dec 2012 - Feb 2013)


SCANZ 2013 3rd nature hui and wananga symposium



This is sooo much stuff, I will have to write out details later :-) So far enjoy the links.