## GCC2021 BoF: Handling georeferenced data in Galaxy # "Earth in Galaxy" ๐Ÿ—บ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŒ This is a shared document for collaborative notes from the BoF session. **Please feel free to edit**. ๐Ÿ˜Š Also after the BoF! This document will stay alive (just not anymore linked from *sched*). Outside of the BoF, let's also chat in the GCC2021 **Slack channel [#bof-gis](https://gcc2021.slack.com/archives/C025DTEPWAE)**. There is also a dedicated **sofa table** in the **[Galactic Cafe](https://live.remo.co/e/galaxy-social-event), Floor 3** (**GIS** table), to hang around before and after the BoF, and whenever during the GCC **CollaborationFest**. ๐Ÿ›‹ --- ## How to edit in HackMD If you see this page in **view mode**, what you probably do after opening it, click on the *Edit* button **on the top of the window**. 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It will be shared on the private Slack and on the provided contact channels. ๐Ÿ™ - **name / pronouns / location or affiliation / field or interest / preferred contact option** (*all fields **optional***!) - Melissa Black / she/her / Sรฃo Paulo, BR, trying to relocate to Southern California, US / geography, software, open science / gitter @melibleq, twitter @melissablck - Matรบลก Kalaลก / apapronominal / Uni Bergen, Norway; EDAM / geo-enthusiast with negligible knowledge / Gitter+Twitter @matuskalas - ๐Ÿ‘พ / ey/em / extraterrestrial spy - Anne Fouilloux / she/her / University of Oslo, Norway / twitter @AnneFouilloux - Dave Clements / he / Eugene, Oregon. US / / clements@galaxyproject.org - Daniel Blankenberg / he / Cleveland, Ohio, US / / dan.blankenberg@gmail.com - - - - - - - --- ## Meeting minutes, questions **Please feel free to Q&A, chat, note**, also after the BoF! This document will stay alive (just not anymore linked from a fully public place). The discussion will include, but not be limited to, the following questions. **Please feel free to add your answers or comments underneath** ๐Ÿ˜Š #### ๐Ÿ—บ What kind of georeferenced data do|did you work with or are interested in? - Matus: work with none (other than participant lists), interested in all ๐Ÿ˜‹ - Anne: climate data - Daniel: epidemiology - Dave: air traffic routing etc. - - - - - #### ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป What related software | approach do you want to mention? - Matus: my knowledge is limited to the OpenStreetMaps & co ecosystem - Some tools: CartograPlant, CartograTree - Panoply by NASA - Tripal integrated with GIS (e.g. agricultural samples); Tripal Galaxy - Tripal community meets every year in January in San Diego, as part of PAG. - Jill Wegerzyn at UCONN - Nic Herndon at Eastern Carolina U - Sean Buehler Tennesses Meg Staton - Alex Lowe, ECU, is signed up for CoFest - - - - - - - - #### ๐ŸŒŒ Your experience with geo data in Galaxy? - Matus: basic tutorials from Yvan et al. & Anne, so no real GIS, right? - CoSSci is an old Galaxy server for social science, they're generating maps (UCI). Dave: 6yrs no more contact http://socscicompute.ss.uci.edu/ Looks like up & running ๐Ÿ˜Š - Somebody probably creates Covid-19 maps in Galaxy (can be Jupyter or RStudio) - Pangeo Jupyter Notebooks - In some data in Galaxy: locations ad hoc in some columns - - - - - #### ๐Ÿ™ What do we need to add to Galaxy | GTN | the whole ecosystem? - Dave: 90% of all data is unified by having geolocation - Dave: If we can add those (hopefully) <5 geo-data standards into Galaxy, we're opening ๐ŸŒŒ to include ๐ŸŒ - Melissa: JSON is used increasingly (unless data is too big) - Anne: we could do more if we had more computational power - Anne: for climate metadata, special tools are needed to handle it (DataCube(lat,long,time) + metadata) - Dan & all: Nice dealing | user interface for data such as e.g. calendar (dates etc. incl. paleo) - Dave & Anne: Let's not forget other planets & co (weather/climate, astrobio, radioastro, ...) - Dave: What is the "reference genome"|reference data for Earth? - - - - - ## Action points - Followup tomorrow, as part of CoFest. (without North America West coast) - Look at datatypes first, whether they are string|int underneath, but add semantics to know how to show & interact - Analysis of different catalogues of data for Earth Science: https://box.pionier.net.pl/d/529599305c0e43d9bf28/ - Include in the Community Roadmap work. Where else? (Technical? IDC? ..?) - - - - -