Ithaca, NY Workflows are a repeatable sequence of operations that achieve an outcome. A scientific workflow is unique among other types of workflows because it specifically represents a graphical model of data flow among processing steps. The Kepler Project provides an open source scientific workflow tool that allows users to author and execute scientific workflows.

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Baltimore, MD Is there anyone out there who has an in-box, spam filter, hard drive, or update feed that is not brimming with outdated, digital junk? And are you even sure about whether it’s junk or not? Like old string, your institution may have a particular reason for keeping a collection of regularly updated data. […]

Printed scholarly publications in the main reading room at the New York Public Library. © 2008 Carol Minton Morris
Baltimore, MD SPARC IR morning “Campus Publishing Strategies” sessions focused on making use of, and understanding the evolution of scholarly publishing as a platform for scholarly discourse as well as a process for developing intellectual products. […]

The Bromo-Seltzer Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. © by James G. Howes, 2008.
Baltimore, MD Bromo-Seltzer was invented in this town by Captain Isaac Emerson. To celebrate his tummy-taming elixir he built a clock tower in 1911 that was intended to look like the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Baltimore version included a marvelous 51-foot […]

The ComPADRE web site (http://www.compadre.org/portal/) provides access to a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy.
From Pat (Viele) the Science Librarian (Pat’s Picks for STEM Educators) The fall meeting of the NYS Section of the American Physical Society was held on on November 14th and 15th. […]

New York, NY Will tracking pop stars and images of swirling hurricanes on cell phones and through social networking sites become what future generations think of as “news”? Over 100 media representatives, librarians, academics and technology specialists gathered at the New York Public Library to talk about preserving news for future scholars on Oct. […]