DataFedWiki
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[edit] Wiki as Collaboration Workspace
- Collaborative content creation - (i.e. writing, structuring)
- Discussion Pages for each wiki page
- Organizing content (i.e. compact data catalog, activities)
[edit] DataFed Wiki
A wiki is a collaborative space to store, organize and cross-link information in freely-expandable interlinked Web pages - where each page is easily editable by any user. The topic of this wiki is DataFed: Data, Tools and Applications
- WikiDesign
- DataFed_Tags
- Use_Del.icio.us_in_combination_with_Wiki
- WikiWish
- Wiki_Extension_through_RSS
[edit] Tools/Methods
[edit] Other Wikis
Add to this list by tagging your link DataFed and otherwiki
Delicious/tag/datafed otherwiki
[edit] Showing Sites on Google Earth
This file has a few records with lat's and lon's: balloons_minimal.csv
name,desc,lat,lon place 1,hello [[name]] at [[lat]] [[lon]], 40,-90 place 2,hello [[name]] at [[lat]] [[lon]], 35,-80
The mandatory columns are name, lat and lon.
The 'desc' column contains either a url to a html snippet or the description text. It can have macros that are replaced with data from other columns.
This service turns that into KML
Parameters:
- name: name to the left side layer tree view
- data: pointer to a table file, that contains the records.
Using html snippets to create more advanced displays:
Here's more advanced data:
name,source_href,source_desc,lat,lon place 1,http://place1.com, place 1 desc,40,-90 place 2,http://place2.com, place 2 desc,35,-80
This file has an url and descriptor for every site.
Here is the site html snippet
<p><a href="[[source_href]]">[[source_desc]]</a></p>
The snippet uses columns source_href and source_desc in macros.
The sites also use a header snippet
The full uri to create KML is here.
Parameters:
- format: use kml or kmz
- name: name to the left side layer tree view
- snippet: short description in the tree view
- maxlines: short description lines
- desc: url to document header
- pen: border color
- brush: side color
- data: pointer to a table file, that contains the records.
- size: in kilometers, the size of the site placemark.
- site_desc: html snippet for each site
