Sparrow October 2020 workshop schedule

Dates: October 21-23, 2020 (3 days)

Location: Online via Zoom and Slack

Register your interest via this web form.

Goals

• Explore the utility of the lab-level database system in geochronology and geochemistry labs
• Explain the metadata management, visualization, and data-integration tools provided by the Sparrow data system
• Provide examples of how to integrate Sparrow into existing lab workflows
• Explore the potential contribution of a lab-level data store to community-level goals for data accessibility and archiving

Wednesday, October 21st – Plenary Sessions

Program starts at 2pm ET, 1pm CT, 12pm MT, 11am PT

Video of the day’s talks (preliminary) [mediaspace link]

1 pm What are we doing and why? (90 minutes)

(30 minutes) Project vision, purpose, and approach [slides]

D. Quinn, B. Singer, S. Meyers

(30 minutes) Community context – complementary projects and tools

        K. Lehnert, N. McLean, L. Morgan, C. Neudorf

(30 minutes) Panel Q and A with first speakers

2:30 pm How are we doing it? (60 minutes)

(30 minutes) Sparrow core system, importing data, and API – D. Quinn

(15 minutes) Frontend and metadata editing – C. Idzikowski

Questions continuing past 3:15pm as appropriate

3:15 - 4:15 pm Lab integration highlights and next steps

Pre-recorded lab presentations

WiscAr integration: PyChron integration and archive – B. Bruck Presentation video

WiscCosmo integration and data form – S. Ye Presentation video

LaserChron integration and data archive – K. Sundell Presentation video

WiscSIMS integration R schema importer and QGIS – B. Linzmeier Presentation video

4:15 - 5:00 pm Panel Discussion: Lab integration

        B. Bruck, B. Linzmeier, C. Neudorf, K. Sundell, D. Quinn, S. Ye

Thursday, October 22

Hands-On Trials & Breakout Groups + Slack Channel

10:00 - 11:00 am Embargo policies Draft embargo policy document

        Facilitated by J. Williams, D. Quinn, B. Linzmeier

11:00 - 12:00 pm Lab integration - Walk through of individual import pipelines

        Facilitated by B. Linzmeier, K. Sundell, and B. Bruck

1:00 - 2:00 pm Database structure and metadata tracking

        Facilitated by D. Quinn and J. Ross

2:00 - 3:00 pm Sparrow plugins

        Facilitated by C. Idzikowski, J. Ross, and D. Quinn

3:00 - 4:00 pm External integrations + controlled vocabularies

        Facilitated by D. Quinn, J. Ross, and S. Goring

Friday, October 23

Domain-specific planning and discussion

10am CT/11 am ET: EarthChem integration

        Facilitated by: D. Quinn, S. Ramdeen, K. Lehnert

10am CT/11am ET: EPMA, SIMS, and SEM

        Facilitated by B. Linzmeier, S. Kuehn

11am CT/10am MT: Low-T/noble gas/thermochronology

        Facilitated by J. Metcalfe, B. Flowers, D. Quinn

1pm CT/11am PT: Optically-stimulated luminescence

        Facilitated by C. Neudorf, D. Quinn

Other useful links

• A video showing installation of Sparrow on the Mac platform.
• Sparrow’s project and documentation website