Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation
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| + | * keywords from the 'Call for Projects' | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine Rube Goldberg machines] | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphysics Pataphysics] | ||
* Processing-based | * Processing-based | ||
| + | ** [http://www.processing.org/exhibition/index.html Processing.org/exhibition/] | ||
| + | * Tangible / physical / machines | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) Duchamp's fountain] | ||
| + | ** [http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/11/visible_sound_graph_sewing_machine.html data-sewing-machine] | ||
==Data Analysis== | ==Data Analysis== | ||
* Data Analysis will play an important role in the second part of the project , that is the construction of the Web 2.0 Service | * Data Analysis will play an important role in the second part of the project , that is the construction of the Web 2.0 Service | ||
* More on our apporach to data analysis can be found on [[Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation/Data_Analysis | Data Analysis]] | * More on our apporach to data analysis can be found on [[Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation/Data_Analysis | Data Analysis]] | ||
Revision as of 15:37, 8 December 2008
Contents |
Spectrophotometer design
- Technology
- LED-based
- CCD detector
- diffraction grating
- Calibration
- Computer interface
Spectrometric data format
- JCAMP format:
- XML/RDF based
- Data description:
- Spectral data (sampled)
- time log
- GPS log
- tags
Targeted biological samples
For our project, we aim to target one of the most accessible human bodily fluids:
- Sweat
- Still difficult to use as it is difficult to collect a quantity large enough
- Reliable collection a problem too
- Sperm
- very socially awkward - many cultural, religious issues associated
- Breast Milk
- Same social issues as above, to a lesser extent maybe
- Limited 'Market': lactating women only
- Saliva
- Few practical collection problems
- 23andME
- Saliva Analysis is used to detect the level of hormones or drugs. But there is little a spectrophotometer can do to help (no correlation between a health issue and opacity, color or any such criterion).
- Blood
- Also Practical, although collection a bit harder
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
- Spectrophotometry may be of limited use, but of use nonetheless.
- To know more about Blood Analysis
- Urine
- Also practical
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
- This is the bodily fluid for which spectrophotometry may be of most use.
- To know more about Urine Analysis
NB: There are also some internal bodily fluids (but they are not practical to use), including
- cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and the spinal cord
- synovial fluid surrounding bone joints
- intracellular fluid is the fluid inside cells
- aqueous humour and vitreous humour the fluids in the eyeball.
A full (and very long) list of the human bodily fluids can be found on Wikipedia
Open Dataset Repository design
- Web2.0 Service-like
- Open API
- Existing Spectroscopy Databases:
Data visualisation
- keywords from the 'Call for Projects'
- Processing-based
- Tangible / physical / machines
Data Analysis
- Data Analysis will play an important role in the second part of the project , that is the construction of the Web 2.0 Service
- More on our apporach to data analysis can be found on Data Analysis
