The Industrial Ecology Digital Lab (https://www.iedl.no) is a small RSE group (7 people) within NTNUs Industrial Ecology Programme (https://www.ntnu.edu/indecol - with around 70 people, organized into eight Professor groups). One of the main purposes of the lab is to support the development of novel research code. As part of that support, we aspire to lift the general coding competence of the...
LLMs have become a tool used by many researchers in a wide variety of tasks and several libraries are available to facilitate access to the most common LLMs. At the same time many workstations used by researchers don't have the capacity to run llms locally and at the same time researchers are hesitant to feed potentially sensitive data to models hosted on external webservices like Azure or...
In the dynamic landscape of research, efficient project storage and seamless retrieval are essential for driving progress and innovation. However, researchers often face challenges in organizing, accessing, and sharing their projects and associated data effectively. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel web application designed to streamline project management and foster...
The study of processes occurring in a matter when ionizing radiation passes through it is important for solving various problems. Examples of such problems are applied and fundamental tasks in physics, chemistry, material science and technology, biology, nuclear medicine and so on.
Computer modeling makes it possible to perform preliminary computational experiments in cases where real...
How do you organize a conference as publicly as possible, enabling participants to edit the plan as they go?
We organized this conference mainly on a private discussion channel. It is not closed, anyone can join, but you need to know about it. In our previous unconferences, participants have done a lot to make the event happen and they most likely could help with this one.
I will talk...
InfraVis is the national Swedish infrastructure for the visualization and analysis of data from all academic domains. InfraVis supports its users on three levels with varying degrees of depth and effort: from a few hours without user fees to several months with co-funding. In this paper, we document and analyse our approach to support levels to extract lessons learned for the reader....
The Estonian Topographic Database (ETAK) is a collection of geospatial vector data layers managed by the Estonian Land Board. In general, this data is generated by digitizing various man-made (e.g. buildings, roads) and natural (e.g. water bodies) geographic objects from satellite imagery. This process is currently largely manual and very time-consuming, which is why methods for automating at...
Software security is a familiar concept to anyone using digital devices, often highlighted by frequent and annoying prompts for urgent software updates. When it comes to research software, security takes greater significance: researchers are often working on confidential projects and handling sensitive research data such as personal data. When it comes to security, researchers, who often...
I'd like to share my 4-year old ongoing effort of translating the BAPS software (Corander, J. and Marttinen, P., 2006) from MATLAB to R. This is a very large undertaking: the complete sofware contains over 41k LOC, the original developers have disbanded and moved on, and the software doesn't even run anymore on modern systems. We have achieved good progress in 400 hours of work over 3 years,...
