Publishing interactive scientific papers

Open Source code from Geosoft II seminar at ifgi, winter semester 2015/16

Organisation page

About the course

During the winter semester 2015/16 the bachelor students at the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) worked on a web platform for interactive scientific papers.
The course Geosoft II introduces students to advanced application development (web services, user interfaces) for geospatial data. This year the students had to work with LaTex documents and geospatial data of different types, e.g. timeseries or remote sensing raster data and create a user-friendly platform to explore a scientific publication with interactive graphics. You can download the full project requirements document for details.


The course was taught by Marius Appel, Daniel Nüst, and Edzer Pebesma.

LSF Nr.: 142839 —  Learnweb


Projects

In the following we will shortly present the results of the four groups - be sure to try out the demos (from within university network only). And of course all source code is open source and available on GitHub: https://github.com/organizations/Geosoft2/

publikatr

Publikatr is a web based publishing platform for scientific articles, developed for the Geosoftware II course at WWU Münster. A basic editorial area is sketched out to manage incoming submissions.

Demo: http://giv-geosoft2b.uni-muenster.de
Code: https://github.com/JanKoppe/publikatr

Publikatr Landingpage

Publikatr Editorial Area

paper.hub

paper.hub is a platform for publishing scientific papers in the internet. It provides dynamical visualizations of spatial data and time-series. Users are able to register via OAuth with three different services.

Live Demo: http://giv-geosoft2c.uni-muenster.de
Code: http://github.com/gs2-2/paper.hub

Landingpage

Paperpage

PaperBulb

PaperBulb is a web based publication platform, which enables researchers and developers to show their research findings to the world.

Live Demo: http://giv-geosoft2d.uni-muenster.de
Code: https://github.com/McMorri/Geosoftware_II

PaperBulb-Timeseries

PaperBulb-Interactive Maps

Skypaper

Skypaper is a new way to distribute your geospatial publications. You can include geospatial data just by mentioning the filename at the appropriate position in your article. Our clean and simple design makes it easy to explore and interact with scientific papers published by researchers from all over the world.

skypaper

skypaper

Link: http://giv-geosoft2e.uni-muenster.de
Code: https://github.com/FelixErdmann/Geosoftware-II