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Research Data Tools Examples

Plan

Data management planning (DMP): Tools focused on enabling preparation and submisssion of data management plans:

• DMPonline
• Argos (machine actionable data plan)
• RDMO (provided a comprehensive documentation in English, a demo area, and it's open source.)

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Problems with Windows Long Path in Python

It seems there is a limit in Windows API paths, that is causing the Digital Preservation script to fail with the message of "file not found"

>>> source_dir = Path(r"G:\GSDC High Res Photos\2023-GSDC\2023-05-31-Day 2\2023-05-31-1030-1200-Using reconciliation and migration to drive the development of more sustainable and equitable societies")
>>> dest_dir = Path(r"E:\KAUST_ARCHIVES\009_COMMUNICATIONS_AND_PUBLIC_RELATIONS\001_GLOBAL_BRANDING_AND_COMMUNICATIONS\009_001_0018\mg_test")
>>> copytree(source_dir, dest_dir)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

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Windows Configuration

WSL

To install the WSL component on Windows, use the Opitional Features instead of suggested command:

Settings -> Apps -> Optional features -> More Windows Features -> Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Movies Suggestions

Winter 2024

Title	Year, Origin, Director, Rating, Run time	Link
Gimme Danger	2016, USA, Jim Jarmusch, R, 1h 48m	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714917/
Total Recall	1990, USA, Paul Verhoeven. R, 1h 53m	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/
Thank You for Smoking	2005, US, Jason Reitman, R, 1h 32m	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/
The Prestige	2006, USA, Christopher Nolan, PG-13, 2h 10m	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

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Read Passwords from Ansible Vault

Declaring username and password in a vault and reading the dictionary into a playbook.

The files mysql_vault and mysql_users were renamed to library_vault_key and library_vault to include other secrets than MySQL only.

The Vault

The dictionary, mysql_users has the database name as key, and the values are the username and the password. The password for the vault is in the file mysql_vault, which is a simple text file like this

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Git Cookbook

Using Git for every work.

Branch

Creating a branch

mgarcia@wsl2:~/Documents/Work/orcid-integration$ git checkout -b dockerfile_no_ssh_key

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Using Virtual Environment in Powershell

Create the virtual environment

PS C:\Users\mgarcia\Documents\Work\ml> python -m venv venv

Starting the environment

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MySQL Daily Admin

Basic MySQL administration, and useful commands.

Location of the Database

Locating the directory with the database files

root@lthlibpub:/etc/mysql# mysqladmin -u root -p variables | grep datadir

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Tmux

Tmux Tricks

Broadcasting typing to all panes:

# To activate:
:setw synchronize-panes on