Free/Open-Source (Pre-Alpha) Excel Book listing orgs in Maritime Industry spaces
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Hi, everyone. Thanks for your work so far in setting up Green Wave.
As I've tried to understand aquaculture/mariculture and adjacent maritime industries, I've been filling out an Excel document to list orgs (NPOs, private businesses, gov. research centers etc.) in this space, along with identifying "flags" to mark what they do/provide. Here is the "mariculture" sheet, to give you an example of what the book looks like
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This document is still very early in a "pre-alpha" stage but parts of it *might* be useful to you, since at the very least it might save you the time you might otherwise spend going over Google searches. In the future, I'd like to clean up the book and upload the contents to a database that could be publicly accessed with a nice, clean webpage ("frontend"), but that's a long ways off. If you haven't already seen it, another community member has already started something that partly overlaps with this and his version already has a nice webpage/accessible frontend (link)!
The full Excel document can be downloaded from this link. Github is a website that's mostly for software projects and it's not as user-friendly for non-engineers, but you can download the Excel sheet by clicking on the green "code" button (step 1), then selecting "download ZIP" (step 2), and unzipping the contents (see image below). Note there is no actual code (not even Excel Visual Basic macros), just a set of spreadsheets in a Microsoft Excel book (extension ".xlsx").
I hope this is helpful -- every several months if I (and/or anyone else who wants to join me in this endeavor) make enough progress I'll periodically "drop off" updated (and hopefully more accessible) versions of it, especially as I continue to explore this space and meet people.Again, thanks for your work so far and good luck on your farms.
-- SJL
@stephen_lowery - So great that you're doing this tracking. Have you seen Phyconomy's database of seaweed organizations? It's pretty extensive and maybe complements what you're doing!
@jwhis -thanks for pointing that out. The phyconomy.net site is great. Yes I'm using that now as well. Cheers
@jwhis -thanks for pointing that out. The phyconomy.net site is great. Yes I'm using that now as well. Cheers