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Carpodata is a data management platform offered by Chrono-environnement (chrono) research laboratory. It proposes numeric data sets from carpological research made in the laboratory.

What does Carpodata allow you to do ?

Carpodata is an open for all database with for purposes :
  • to increase the visibility of carpological data produced in Chrono-environnement laboratory
  • to ease access to these open data
  • to promote sharing, distribution and reuse of carpological research data

Access and consultation of data published on the portal are free
Information describing data is let to the supplier to control and ensure the best reliability. They will answer your requests about the described data, sent from the website.

Contribute

New data from carpological research can be entered in the database. Acces to this interface is reserved to signed up people.
This access can be given throught a request to Carpodata team with the registration form.
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The website will eventually be interoperable with external services, allowing descriptive pages to be reexposed on the outside.

Portal development

The database was commisionned in July, 2019. Carpodata is continuously improved ; you can advise us on issues you have noticed though navigation by contacting the administration : caroline.schaal@univ-fcomte.fr

Credits

Direction of project :

  • Sylvie Damy (senior lecturer, Chrono-environnement laboratory, UFC)
  • Caroline Schaal (associated researcher, Chrono-environnement laboratory, UFC, GéoArchéon)

IT development :

Axel Muller (doctoral student, Université BFC, CNRS)
Marie Smolinski (software and web development)

Third-party components :

  • To display maps we use OpenLayers published under BSD Licence with 2 clauses. OpenLayers internally uses utilise code from Chris Veness published under CC-BY-3.0.
  • Maps come from OpenStreet Map.
  • The SVG world map is from Wikimedia Commons, public domain, by Canuckguy and a lot of others (c.f. history on Wikimedia)
  • To display sky maps we use a modified version of Aladin Lite (CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, France) available on GPL3 licence. Modified version is available here. Consult the 'MODIFS' file given in the archive for details on modifications made.
  • The images of the sky maps comme from the selected statement.
  • Aladin Lite uses JQuery under MIT licence.
  • Constellations come from UAI and have been translated to JSON by Olaf Frohn, D3 celestial (BSD licence)

Funding

Carpodata's realisation was made thanks to the support of Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the Université de Franche-Comté and the CNRS.