Newsletters

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Emily Kayser

This presentation will explore the Newsletters component. It will describe features and functionality of this new component, including:- Creating newsletters on the hub- Creating mailing lists- Sending Newsletters and checking Tracking information- Viewing statistics on previously sent...

Collections

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

This presentation will demo the HUBzero Collections component. Collections was designed as a “Pinterest” for research. Researchers and collaborators can now quickly add (or pin) a resource, wiki page, link, or almost any other page of the hub to their collection set. We will talk about creating a...

Web Components

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Christopher A Smoak, Sam Wilson

This presentation will cover the initial building blocks for constructing a basic Hub component. The first session will cover component structure, interacting with the database, including your own styles and scripts, and more. You’re expected to have an intermediate understanding of PHP, as well...

Templates and Overrides

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Shawn Rice

This presentation was a live demo of creating output overrides documented here: https://hubzero.org/documentation/1.2.0/webdevs/templates.overrides. (No slides were used for this presentation.)

DMPTool: Expert Resources and Support for Data Management Planning

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Tao Zhang

A growing number of US federal funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) as part of new research grant proposals. One of the challenges facing institutions is providing a support structure for potential researcher knowledge gaps in the process. The DMPTool is a free, open source tool...

Collections–Pinterest for Hubs. The STEMEdhub.org use of Collections

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

Unlike some hubs that are designed around one central concept, STEMEdhub.org was created under the general concept of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education. STEMEdhub.org is designed as a set of smaller hubs set up as groups. With STEMEdhub.org based around the concept of...

Creating a Bibliography and Taxonomy within HUBzero: a HABRI Central Case Study

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Gretchen Stephens, Jane Yatcilla

In a landmark collaboration between the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, the Purdue University Libraries, the Purdue University Press with funding from the HABRI (Human Animal Bond Research Initiative) Foundation, HABRI Central is being developed on the HUBzero platform to...

A HUBzero Extension for Automated Tagging

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Jim Mullen

Tagging pages on a hub can help users find relevant content, but it also can require a lot of effort if done manually. We developed an extension for HUBzero that supports the automated tagging of content using the NCBO (National Center for Biomedical Ontology) Annotator; and we have installed...

Publishing Research Data in NEEShub

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Stanislav Pejša

Earthquake engineering is a highly interdisciplinary research area that brings together researchers from civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineering, as well as researchers from Earth sciences. NEEShub, a collaborative platform that provides a stable data repository and virtual research...

Use of Hierarchical Keywords for Easy Data Management on HUBzero

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Gaurav Nanda, Jonathan Tan, Peter Auyeung, Bill Gaskill, Christopher A Smoak, mark lehto

Post implementation, HUBzero has been well accepted as a knowledge management and collaboration platform for the reliability engineering (RE) division of a large consumer goods company. Various RE tools are being used in the organization in form of spreadsheets. Automated workflows have been...

Using Simulation Workspaces

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

In this talk, users will learn what the workspace is, how to launch it, and get familiar with the environment.

Introducing the Rappture Toolkit

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

Rappture is the Rapid APPlication infrastrucTURE, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools. Once you describe the input/output for your simulator, Rappture handles the rest, generating a graphical interface...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

HUBzero lets you access simulation tools online via an ordinary web browser. Where do the tools come from? From you--hundreds of you throughout the world who are developing simulation and modeling tools for your hub. Anyone can upload their own code onto a hub and publish a tool for a limited...

More Rappture Objects

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

Rappture is the Rapid APPlication infrastrucTURE, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools.This talk picks up where Introducing the Rappture Toolkit and What's Under the Hood? left off, showing how to create more...

Developing hub tools that submit HPC jobs

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell

The HUBzero platform provides much support for tool development in addition to Rappture. Based on my experiences with writing the SubmiR tool for the DiaGrid.org hub, this presentation will focus on coding an application that imports data, submits an HPC job, and updates the user with job status....

Getting Started with HUBzero/VM Setup

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

If you have ever wanted to have your own copy of HUBzero, we will demo how to setup our open source VM. This talk will be mostly concerned with the technical setup that will include VMware installation and configuration, linux ethernet configuration, URL setup and new admin user creation.

Configuring and Customizing

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

Congratulations! Your HUBzero software is installed. Now what? Each new hub requires some configuration and customization based on your needs. We'll talk about content configuration (article pages), home page configuration (modules, news/announcements, banner), member registration customization...

Collaboration and Contributions

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Emily Kayser

This presentation will describe:- What hub groups are, and how to find or create them- How to invite and manage users in a group- Group manager functions- Group features that help facilitate group collaboration, including new calendar features- What resources are, and how they are contributed-...

DiaGrid + HUBzero: Power to the People

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Rob Campbell, Kevin chen, Steven Clark, Brian Raub, Christopher Thompson

DiaGrid is a distributed computing resource based on a federated HTCondor pool with more than 50,000 processor cores today and has delivered nearly 100 million computational jobs to date. A new HUBzero-based web front end to DiaGrid, diagrid.org (aka DiaGrid HUB), is now available for researchers...

Expedition Antioquia, a hub to promote richness and diversity for equity in Antioquia

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Juan Guillermo Lalinde, Juan Pineda, Leidy Lorena Alzate-Vargas (presenter)

Antioquia is one of Colombian departments (states) characterized by its richness, its diversity and, unfortunately, its inequity. Expedition Antioquia, is a research program involving more than 10 universities in the region, with the objective of become a hub for information about Antioquia and...