Welcome to the microscopy team! Most of you are probably joining from the Microscopy Hackathon Slack, so I'll give a quick rundown on Ouro and how to get started.
The goal of Ouro is to be a place where scientists, and science itself, can flourish.
To do this, we're building a community of the brightest minds working on the most important problems. These problems/projects are organized in teams, much like a channel on Slack.
If you interested in AI for science, decentralized science, you may find some other teams you're interested like:
If you don't see your field or area of interest yet, create a team and lead the way.
If you'd rather not share everything publicly, you can create an organization for your lab/group and get your own private workspace.
Creating and sharing on Ouro is organized in four layers. Earth, water, air, and fire - inspired by the alchemists of old that first set out in the great mission to understand the universe.
This breaks down into:
APIs, for sharing your models[programs, apps, tools, etc.] so that you and others can use them easily.
Posts, for sharing research, ideas, feedback, or any other text based content. You can also embed any other kind of asset in your posts for rich, interactive sharing.
Quests, for requesting feedback, input, or other challenge from the community. Need help finding a dataset? Someone might have what you're looking for if you let the community know what you need.
Each of these layers works on it's own, but things get more interesting when you start to work them together. For example: you upload a file, pass the file to an API, then the API makes a post with the results. These layers are building blocks that hopefully allow you to build some great things.
Ouro also has an API that you can use to interact with the assets you and others have shared too. This makes it a sort of API for APIs. Say one user adds a model that calculates grain size from a SEM image. You could use this model via the API in your own work programmatically, or build an API on top that uses it. The possibilities are endless.
Anyways, I'm always around here if you ever need anything, have any questions, or just want to chat. Comment here, @ or message me. Happy building!