RWater: A WaterHub tool for K-12 School Hydrology Education

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Adnan Rajib, Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Enhancing students’ analytical ability of interpreting complex hydrologic processes from limited classroom environment has been a subject of long-standing research. From this perspective, a new internet-based educational tool, called RWater, is developed using HUBzero based WaterHUB. The...

State of the Hub: 2013

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The HUBzero Platform continues to grow. The latest release supports data management through the “projects” component, database publication through the DataStore component, publications with digital object identifiers, a learning management system for online education, a Pinterest-style mechanism...

State of the Hub: 2014

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

Teaching Big Data analysis in the Social Sciences using a HUBzero-based platform

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Jeanette M Sperhac, Steve Gallo, Jim B Greenberg, Brian Lowe, Bill Wilkerson, Greg Fulkerson, Brett Heindl

Large datasets culled from social media can easily grow to a size beyond the analytical capability of common software tools. Undergraduate institutions such as comprehensive colleges often lack the computing infrastructure and support personnel needed to allow students and researchers to create,...

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.)

The nanoHUB-U initiative: Goals, Status, and Experiences

18 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

The nanoHUB-U initiative is designed to help prepare seniors, graduate students and practicing engineers for the multidisciplinary research and technology environment of the 21st Century, through a unique curriculum: (1) which is cutting-edge and yet broadly accessible to all science and...

The New Logistics of Knowledge

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney

Just as technology has transformed businesses that deal in information delivery, such as journalism and book publishing, many experts also expect that electronic technologies will transform higher education. While agreeing, Gerry McCartney believes the digital transformation won’t soon happen in...

The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

STEMEdhub.org, a HUBzero hosted hub, at its core is focused on supporting, promoting and hosting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Research. Due to the close nature of the work on STEMEdhub.org and the AAU STEM Education Undergraduate Initiative, we decided to...

The Vhub experience – online simulations are the water coolers...

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Abani K. Patra

In this talk we will discuss the growth and evolution of vhub.org an online collaboratory for volcanology. Volcanology is a complex discipline with a wide range of skillsets from field work, laboratory work, complex data gathering and analysis, mechanics, modeling and simulation all used in an...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

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...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

02 Apr 2011 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

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...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

Use of Hierarchical Keywords for Easy Data Management on HUBzero

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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 | Seminars | 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.

Using the HUB to Study Disaster Events

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Eric Letvin, Santiago Pujol

NIST is creating a Disaster and Failure Events Data Repository which will host a national archival database of significant hazard events, the observed performance of the built environment during those events, associated emergency response and evacuation procedures where appropriate, and the...

Volunteer Computing for Hubs

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): David Anderson

Volunteer computing is a low-cost way to increase the computing power of science portals. In this approach, groups of jobs submitted to a portal are executed on the desktop and laptop computers belonging to portal participants or to the general public. We are adding this capability to HUBzero by...

Web Components

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

What's Under the Hood?

02 Apr 2011 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

This talk shows how Rappture invokes your tool, passes in input values, and extracts output results. It takes a close look at the XML language that Rappture uses to describe your tool.

Who are we talking about? The Role of Person Identifiers in Scholarly Communications

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Laura Paglione

Persistent unique identifiers have been a mainstay in scholarly communication for many years. It would be difficult to think of precisely describing a book without its ISBN or an article without its DOI. Until recently, identifiers most commonly referred to the activities or outcomes of research,...

Workspace

16 Apr 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nicholas J. Kisseberth

Development Workspace