MS:MSconference July08

From SwissExperiment

2008-07-31 Redmond Way ahead and discussion points MS:Meetings

Tasks and priorities.

• Expose web interface for access control (priority 4)
• Integration with wiki (maintained in rdf)
  • Name mapping (liqian) (priority 1)
    • (1) Load the mapping of sensor names into senseweb or (2) query the wiki system for the sensor names or (3) change the sensor type names in senseweb database (priority 1)
    • Display real names instead of column names. e.g., use "relative humidity" rather than "rh"
• Metadata provenance
  • Given sensor name and time window, display all the related wiki data (ashwin and liqian) (priority 1)
    • Dynamic metadata within t1 to t2 should be displayed next to the individual time series plots. (priority 1)
    • Option 1: All dynamic metadata, Static metadata about the sensor and its station can be shown if a user clicks "more".
    • Option 2: go to the wiki if a user clicks "more". e.g., http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/index.php/Wannengrat:Wan4 (priority 1)
  • Data accuracy: percentage or absolute, per sensor type or per sensor or per value, data come from wiki or senseweb (priority 5)
    • Solution 1: show in the description panel of a sensor (priority 1)
    • Solution 2: show error bars in the plots (preferred) (priority 5)
• Embeddable sensormap containing only sensors on top of maps. Once clicked, go to the real sensormap (priority 5)
• Queries based on data values: (priority 4)
  • Use a user interface similar to GSN
  • e.g., show only sensors containing temperature readings between 20F and 30F for time t1 to t2. For sensors satisfy the conditions, plotting all data.
• New visualization methods:
  • Simple ones:
    • represent values by dot sizes (priority 3)
    • represent values by heights of bars (priority 4)
    • represent vector values by arrows (priority 4)
  • Complex ones:
    • Visualization of interpolated values, Vector map (priority 4)
    • Overlays of different visualizations (priority 5)
• Data download
  • Download raw data (priority 3)
• Data access control
  • Publish stations but not data for protected sensors (priority 2)
  • Different resolutions for authorized users and unauthorized users (priority 5)
• Overlay of user-supplied graphs
  • Non-map-related graphs (priority 5)
    • GSN support (Ali) (priority 5)
    • Register graph sensors (priority 5)
    • Given a time, GSN returns a graph (in the form of URL) with a timestamp closest to the time point (priority 5)
  • Graphs to be overlaid on map (priority 5)
• Contour map
  • Draw contour map within the polygon bounded by the sensors instead of rectangles, refer to: http://sensorscope.epfl.ch/dev_climaps/map/view/climatscope (priority 1)
• Maps
  • Get maps and create tiles using mapcruncher and share them on a server (Sebastian or Nick) (priority 1)
  • Integrate the maps into sensormap (Liqian) (priority 1)
• External deployment of sensormap