Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation

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Spectrophotometer design

  • Technology
    • LED-based
    • CCD detector
    • diffraction grating
  • Calibration
  • Computer interface

Spectrometric data 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)
  • Sperm (awkward - many cultural, religious issues associated)
  • Breast Milk (same as above, to a lesser extent)
  • Saliva (Few Problems)
  • Blood (Also practical)
  • Urine (Also practical)


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

Data visualisation

  • Processing-based

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
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