Chronicles from our 2019 voyage aboard the RV Investigator to the Coral Sea to sample underwater volcanoes on the submerged continent of Zealandia

Join the community playing The Metadata Game!

Version 2.8 of Underworld has been released recently. As with all major releases, this release brings numerous new features, enhancements and bug fixes. A summary of changes may be found within the usual CHANGES.md file. As is also usually the case, numerous API changes have been necessary or warranted.

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First, a short personal backstory. Vicki’s and my extended families both live mostly in Oklahoma and Kansas, so they only get to see our son, London, at the holidays or at infrequent mid-year visits. Starting when London was five, every year I’ve made a photo book of his adventures through the year to give as Christmas presents to all of our relatives. These have also become cherished mementos for the three of us here in Cali.

And so the series continues: part 9, part 10 and part 11 were not numbered as such, but that’s what they were, so I am picking up the numbering here with #12. If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember that Matt and I are convinced that BYU 9024, the big cervical vertebra that has been referred to Supersaurus , actually belongs to a giant Barosaurus . If we’re right about, then it means one of two things: either

Darren Naish, the silent third partner in SV-POW!, alerted me to this piece by palaeoartist Steve White: {.alignnone .wp-image-16447 .size-full loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“16447” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2019/08/17/steve-whites-impressionist-brontosmash/steve-white-impressionist-brontosmash/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/steve-white-impressionist-brontosmash.jpeg” orig-size=“768,1024” comments-opened=“1”

The DataCite metadata model includes rich information about over 18 million items with DOIs. The schema includes at least four elements that describe organizations: publisher, creator, contributor, and fundingReference. Each of these elements has interesting characteristics. Let’s explore them!

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It’s a bit shocking to find that SV-POW! is going on for twelve years old. (Our very first post was on 1st October 2007, so we’re about fifty days short of that anniversary.) It’s cost us almost nothing to run the blog in that time — in financial terms, at least.