Mike's Notes
This is where I will keep detailed working notes on creating Workspaces for Research. Eventually, these will become permanent, better-written documentation stored elsewhere. Hopefully, someone will come up with a better name than this working title.
This replaces coverage in Industry Workspace written on 13/10/2025.
Testing
The current online mockup is version 1 and will be updated frequently. If you are helping with testing, please remember to delete your browser cache so you see the daily changes. Eventually, a live demo version will be available for field trials.
Learning
Initially, Pipi 4 had a module called EcoTrack. It mirrored various existing paper tools for biodiversity sampling and measurement in NZ ecosystems. Basically, data storage of observations for any Ecological Restoration Site.
- Trapping
- Soil
- Plant growth
- Water quality
- Microorganisms
- Climate
- Photo records
- Etc
It was planned to join this data with ESRI mapping to help visualise it. ESRI provided a $NZ600,000 grant of their software for this project. This grant came after I gave a live demo at a NZ GIS User Conference, and the ESRI head of programming was in the audience. The software arrived on 2 pallets 2 weeks later.
Landcare Research, DOC and Eagle Technology were helping with this project.
Then there was a change in government, funding dried up, and the Christchurch earthquakes caused havoc. Pipi 4 died.
In 2016, when rebuilding Pipi from memory as Pipi 6, I was greatly influenced by David C. Hay's work on data models for laboratory tests. I then figured out how to add the Business Model testing experiments of Steve Blank and Alexander Osterwalder. Plus, I have a home lab for looking at bugs, running chemistry experiments, and making useful concoctions for art projects. Alex helped with how to provide literature references. Add in a catalogued reference library and seminars. So that's the origin story, starting at a basic level and slowly growing over time.
Why
Ajabbi Research will be the first user of this workspace to organise the research needed to support and improve Pipi for people to use. The workspace will also be used for testing the Researcher Account. Eventually, this workspace will be available to anyone.
Resources
References
References
- Reference
Repository
- Home > Ajabbi Research > Library >
- Home > Handbook >
Last Updated
28/11/2025
Workspaces for Research
Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.
Open-source
This open-source SaaS cloud system will be shared on GitHub and GitLab.
Dedication
This workspace is dedicated to the life and work of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who at the age of 25 discovered Pulsars.
Bell Burnell in 2009
"Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; née Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not among the awardees.
Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and interim president of the Institute following the death of her successor, Marshall Stoneham, in early 2011. She was Chancellor of the University of Dundee from 2018 to 2023.
In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to use the $3 million (£2.3 million) prize money to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students to become research physicists. The fund is administered by the Institute of Physics.
In 2021, Bell Burnell became the second female recipient (after Dorothy Hodgkin in 1976) of the Copley Medal. In 2025, Bell Burnell's image was included on an An Post stamp celebrating women in STEM." - Wikipedia
Change Log
Ver 1 includes research.
Existing products
Features
This is a basic comparison of features in research software.
[TABLE]
Data Model
words
Database Entities
- Facility
- Party
- etc
Standards
The workspace needs to comply with all international standards.
- (To come)
Workspace navigation menu
This default outline needs a lot of work. The outline can be easily customised by future users using drag-and-drop and tick boxes to turn features off and on.
- Enterprise Account
- Applications
- Facility
- Accounts
- Maintenance
- Supplies
- Library
- Borrower
- Collection
- Loan
- Publish
- Presentation
- Website
- Blog
- Wiki
- Research Program
- Experiment
- Theory
- Customer (v2)
- Bookmarks
- (To come)
- Support
- Contact
- Forum
- Live Chat
- Office Hours
- Requests
- Tickets
- (To come)
- Feature Vote
- Feedback
- Surveys
- Learning
- Explanation
- How to Guide
- Reference
- Tutorial
- Settings (v3)
- Account
- Billing
- Deployments
- Workspaces
- Modules
- Plugins
- Templates
- Institute
- Lab
- Student
- Users
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