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<rss xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule" xmlns:creativeCommons="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:blog="http://bitflux.org/doctypes/blog" xmlns:php="http://php.net/xsl" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title/><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/</link><description>The Blog</description><generator>Flux CMS - http://www.flux-cms.org</generator><atom:link xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="http://api.friendfeed.com/2008/03#sup" type="application/json" href="http://friendfeed.com/api/public-sup.json#flx-1b3aa04d7e"/><item><title>New Joque version</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2010/08/13/new-joque-version.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/237/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;Now available for download the new version (0.6-Beta) of Joque.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out  at&#xA0;&lt;a href="http://www.seismicportal.eu/jetspeed/portal/web-services.psml#ClientTools"
     name="here"
    &gt;www.seismicportal.eu/jetspeed/portal/web-services.psml#ClientTools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>General</dc:subject><dc:subject>services</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>client</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>webservices</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-08-13T09:55:42Z</dc:date></item><item><title>New clients and tools </title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2010/06/07/new-clients-and-tools.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/227/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;Clients and tools now available for download at the portal webservices  &lt;a href="http://www.seismicportal.eu/jetspeed/portal/web-services.psml"
    &gt;page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>General</dc:subject><dc:subject>clients</dc:subject><dc:subject>webservice</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-06-07T09:45:54Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Earthquake Data Portal is now available</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2010/04/01/earthquake-data-portal-is-now-available.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/224/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;NERIES&lt;/strong&gt; project data portal provides a single point of access to diverse, distributed European datasets. The first official release is now available for use at http://www.seismicportal.eu &amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://www.seismicportal.eu"
    &gt;http://www.seismicportal.eu&lt;/a&gt;/&amp;gt; &#xA0;&lt;br/&gt;
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The &lt;strong&gt;Earthquake Data Portal&lt;/strong&gt; portal is a joint &lt;strong&gt;EMSC-ORFEUS&lt;/strong&gt; development. It provides tools to explore and download earthquake information, broadband and accelerometric waveforms, as well as providing access to &lt;strong&gt;other NERIES project datasets&lt;/strong&gt; as they become available. &#xA0;We would like for you to come try out, and &lt;strong&gt;we welcome your feedback.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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Please note that to use all the portal features, &lt;strong&gt;you must register and log in.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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- The NERIES Portal Development Team&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>General</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-04-01T09:55:55Z</dc:date></item><item><title>RapidSeis  -  Deadline Reached</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/11/25/rapidseis-deadline-reached.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/218/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The RapidSeis pilot project has reached its end, and has been presented at the RapidSeis worshop in Liverpool:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);/*1259148239527*/"
    &gt; &lt;center/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA0;- &lt;em&gt;The RapidSeis workshop (12/13th November 2009) was the culmination of a 6  		month pilot project to investigate the use of 'virtual' computing in  		seismology. The project was a collaboration between the Seismology Group  		(University of Liverpool),  		&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"
     href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/"
    &gt;&lt;em&gt;National e-Science Centre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; (University of  		Edinburgh) and the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"
     href="http://www.orfeus-eu.org/"
    &gt;&lt;em&gt;Orfeus Data Centre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; (de Bilt, Netherlands). The  		original idea stemmed from the plug-in functionality of the  		seismological data analysis application (&lt;a href="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/%7Eaeh/Software/SDX.htm"
    &gt;&lt;em&gt;SDX&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) which serves as the back-end processing  		system of the RapidSeis system. RapidSeis extended this concept so that  		plug-ins could be created, edited and executed within portlets accessed  		over the web. Thus the functionality of SDX could be altered on the fly  		via the web. Data were supplied to SDX from the user's 		&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"
     href="http://193.52.21.80/jetspeed"
    &gt;&lt;em&gt;NERIES Data Portal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;  		cart; the data were selected using the series of tools available within  		the Data Portal. The RapidSeis portlets were generated by the  		&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"
     href="http://research.nesc.ac.uk/rapid"
    &gt;&lt;em&gt;Rapid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;  		system, and were hosted within the NERIES Data Portal. The editor and  		executor portlets, and the processing sub-system, ran on hardware at the  		University of Liverpool. -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#xA0; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;taken from&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aeh/Meetings/rapidseisws.htm"
    &gt;http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aeh/Meetings/rapidseisws.htm&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;/p&gt;
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    &gt;Talks and presentation are available on the same link.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0);/*1259148239527*/"
    &gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt=""
     style="width: 397px; height: 298px;"
     src="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aeh/Meetings/rapidseisws.jpg"
    /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Find below the link to the NESC Report and Documentation and watch the video!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://research.nesc.ac.uk/node/494"
    &gt;http://research.nesc.ac.uk/node/494&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p/&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-11-25T10:58:15Z</dc:date><media:content url="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aeh/Meetings/rapidseisws.jpg"><media:thumbnail url="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aeh/Meetings/rapidseisws.jpg" width="100"/></media:content></item><item><title>NEW developments! RapidSeis: Waveform Visualization and Analysis Remote Portlet</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/09/03/rapidseis-waveform-visualization-and-analysis-remote-portlet.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/215/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The main aim of this project &#xA0;(joint project of ORFEUS UNILIV and NESC) is to remove the barrier of uptake to the seismology community of an application that allows analyses of seismic waveform data. This will be achieved by embedding this analysis application in a community gateway, which already exists in the form of the NERIES web portal. The important barriers to uptake are the installation and understanding of the analysis package, the difficulty in transporting large amounts of data as input to an analysis, and direct visualisation of the results. RapidSeis will overcomes these barriers. We will use it to generate intuitive interfaces to the analysis application in the form of self-contained web portlets.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/sdxscrshot.PNG"
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&lt;p&gt;These portlets will be directly embedded in the community gateway and link to the data available in the Orfeus Data Center; the primary European centre for this kind of data. All the data and computing will be orchestrated via our technology, and the results, e.g. graphs of waveforms,will be presented to seismologists via the NERIES web portal.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/rapidseisconcept.png"
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&lt;p&gt;Pilot project founded by &lt;a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/"
    &gt;JISC&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA0;&#xA0; Joint Information system Commitee,&#xA0; in collaboration with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/uniliv.PNG"
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     alt=""
    /&gt; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/NeSC_logo-120.gif"
     style="width: 75px; height: 30px;"
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    /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-09-03T09:58:41Z</dc:date></item><item><title>NEW Webservices tutorial</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/09/01/new-webservices-tutorial.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/191/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;We have just added a new section describing our services.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here you can also find some useful information about Seismolink the webservice providing access to continuous data coming from the Arclink network: &lt;a href="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/webservices/"
    &gt;neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/webservices/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA0; &#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>services</dc:subject><dc:subject>webservices</dc:subject><dc:subject>tutorial</dc:subject><dc:subject>seismolink</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-09-01T22:00:00Z</dc:date></item><item><title>Added Seisgram2K visualization</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/09/01/added-seisgram2k-visualization.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/198/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;Visualize your waveforms with Seisgram2K by Antony Lomax.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the new tool in the myNeries detail page:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align="middle"
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/_galleries/gallery/myneriesseis2.png"
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&lt;p/&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>waveform</dc:subject><dc:subject>visualization</dc:subject><dc:subject>seisgram</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-09-01T22:00:00Z</dc:date></item><item><title>iGoogle Gadget for user composed datasets</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/04/07/igoogle-gadget-for-user-composed-datasets.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/178/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below there`s a beta relase of the &lt;strong&gt;Web 2.0 NERIES iGoogle&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Gadget&lt;/strong&gt;, which shows and gives access to the latests seismic waveform datasets composed by the users through the &lt;strong&gt;NERIES Seismic Data Portal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can add the gadget in your website or  in your &lt;a href="http://www.google.nl/ig"
    &gt;iGoogle&lt;/a&gt; page&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112581652991485412978/neries-dp-datasets-vis-map.xml&amp;up_NERIESrdf=NERIES%20Seismic%20Data%20Portal&amp;up_refresh=2&amp;synd=open&amp;w=500&amp;h=480&amp;title=NERIES+Seismic+Data+Portal&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%2399BB66%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23AACC66%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23BBDD66&amp;output=js"
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&lt;p/&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>web2.0</dc:subject><dc:subject>igoogle</dc:subject><dc:subject>dasates</dc:subject><dc:subject>waveform</dc:subject><dc:subject>seismic</dc:subject><dc:subject>earthquakes</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-04-07T16:09:06Z</dc:date></item><item><title>New! Compose your dataset, rate it and make it available</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/03/19/new-rate-your-dataset-and-make-it-available.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/157/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last weeks we`ve been working on several &lt;em&gt;back end&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;front end &lt;/em&gt;features.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Back End: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Optimization of the users` waveform requests management&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have adopted &lt;a href="http://activemq.apache.org/"
     target="_blank"
    &gt;ActiveMQ&lt;/a&gt; as our requests message broker. We foresee this as one the core tools to  centralize and schedule all the incoming waveform requests at the &lt;strong&gt;ODC,  &lt;/strong&gt; that will be routed transparently to the nodes of the ArcLink network.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We aim to extend this system to serve not only the portal but also other client tools, eg &lt;strong&gt;Breqfast&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Front End:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Dataset Rating &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Through the &lt;strong&gt;NERIES&lt;/strong&gt; portal and &lt;strong&gt;cyberinfrastructure,&lt;/strong&gt; the  users of the portal can search for eartquakes and waveform by aggreagating in a transparent way information coming from different and multi domain data providers, having access  to a big amount of &lt;strong&gt;seismic stations &lt;/strong&gt;(c.a. 600 at this early stage) available through the ArcLink network&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The adoption of &lt;strong&gt;Web 2.0&lt;/strong&gt; technologies such as webservices, RDF, and feeds coupled with Ajax and interactive maps, gave us the possibility to search, combining and mashup the seismic information that are distributed over the internet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each user can compose his own dataset , combining together earthquake parameters, station information, phases arrival times in a completely dynamic way,  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"
    &gt;thus exempting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"
    &gt; the providers from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;"guessing"&lt;/strong&gt;, processing and then offering, pre-packed datasets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The datasets are basically created &lt;strong&gt;on demand&lt;/strong&gt; from the users themselves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to improve our  services  we have implemented an easy to use &lt;strong&gt;rating system&lt;/strong&gt; which will help us in tracking back how users search for data, giving them the possibility to provide a quality evaluation on the obtained dataset. A negative feedback will be notified to the organisation providing the data which compose the user`s dataset, whilst all the positive ones will be used to create a &lt;strong&gt;collection of&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;u&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ser composed  datasets and metadata&lt;/strong&gt; that will be made available to the users either through the NERIES Data Portal or through RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, find below the screenshot  of the requests detail page hosting the Rating functionality&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/ratedataset2(1).png"
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    /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;All comments and ideas on how we could improve this service are more than welcome!!&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:subject>General</dc:subject><dc:subject>services</dc:subject><dc:subject>tools</dc:subject><dc:subject>seismology</dc:subject><dc:subject>earthquakes</dc:subject><dc:subject>data</dc:subject><dc:subject>portal</dc:subject><dc:subject>web2.0</dc:subject><dc:subject>webservices</dc:subject><dc:creator>neriesdataportalblog</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-19T16:58:38Z</dc:date></item><item><title>New! Azimuth/Distance visual tool for stations selection</title><link>http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2009/01/13/new-azimuth-distance-visual-tool-for-stations-selection.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net/blog/archive/id/88/</guid><content:encoded xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;We`ve got several times comments from seismologists and engineers about the issue of having the possbility to select data from stations available within a specific azimuthal and distance range from a specific event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Therefore we have developed an experimental visual tool which gives the opportunity to define these boundaries directly on the map, within the &lt;strong&gt;Wave Exp&lt;/strong&gt; portlet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, find few screenshots of this feature below&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The tool is accessible from the balloon which describes the event&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The boundaries are defined visually on the map, starting from the lower to the higher boundary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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     src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/azimth3.png"
    /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At the end of the process the stations within the boundaries are selected and marked on the map.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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     src="http://neriesdataportalblog.freeflux.net//files/images/azimth4.png"
    /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Any idea about how this functionality could be improved will be more then welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The Neries Data Portal Development Team&lt;/p&gt;
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