The BIM Fisheries Management Chart Online (FMCO) app that this project contributed towards is featured in a number of recent fishing industry publications including the Marine Times. The online version of the fisheries management chart can be accessed at www.fisheriesmanagementchart.ie . The print format of the Fisheries Management Chart produced annually will continue to be distributed and is… Read More Fisheries Management Chart Online
We recently released an update to our digital Stock book app – this is a text-heavy Shiny app and during its development we noticed an annoying issue. The text that the app displays is stored in csv files and was originally copied from the pdf version of the Stockbook – this text displayed fine during… Read More Cleaning text for Shiny apps
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, T.D., has now received the 2019 Marine Institute Annual Stock Book. The Stock Book is one of our principal annual publications and provides scientific advice on commercially exploited fish stocks of interest to Ireland. I’m happy to say that we have also updated the digital… Read More Digital Stockbook updated
In 2017, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) funds became available to further the Marine Institute’s strategic objectives of developing high-quality marine data and services in support of multiple domain needs. During this period excellent progress has been made in the development of new fisheries information products which can be integrated into future services. Additional… Read More Fisheries Informatics Project Phase 2
We have now converted our relational data into a semantic format and have loaded it into an Apache Fuseki server (see my previous post). We will now write an interface that will allow people to explore that data. To do this we’ll develop an R Shiny app – my code for this is available on… Read More Semantic fisheries data (5)
My name is Cian Mc Sweeney, I am currently a Bursar at the Marine Institute, collaborating with both David Currie and David Stokes on Improving Data Quality in Fisheries Surveys, as I approach the end of my 10 week bursary I would like to share some of the current issues facing fisheries surveys in terms… Read More Improving Data Quality in Fisheries Surveys (1)
This is the fourth in my series of posts on getting started in the semantic world – the previous post can be found here. At this point we now have converted our data into a semantic format and want to make it available via a SPARQL end-point. To do this we will use Apache Jena… Read More Semantic fisheries data (4)
This post follows on from here and continues to look at how I wrote the SemanticFishData programme. 3. Load a simple ontology The purpose of this exercise was to try and produce a tool chain which could take data from our relational database and make it queryable using semantic tools and techniques. I didn’t want… Read More Semantic fisheries data (3)
This is my second post looking at semantic fisheries data (the first can be found here) and it will focus on the use of Apache Jena (https://jena.apache.org/) which is an open source Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. Jena is a programming toolkit, using the Java programming language. While there are… Read More Semantic fisheries data (2)
This series of posts describes the process of converting data held in tradition relational databases into a semantic format using a relatively simple example of summarising commercial fisheries sampling activity. Semantic data techniques have some advantages over traditional relation database techniques. Firstly, they are well suited to the world of open, linked data which means… Read More Semantic fisheries data (1)
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