Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation

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