YEA Lab and YEA Journal: A Data Science Portal and Hypermedia Publication for Place-Based Ecological Monitoring

@techreport{cnl2026yea, author = {}, title = {YEA Lab and YEA Journal: A Data Science Portal and Hypermedia Publication for Place-Based Ecological Monitoring}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2026}, number = {CNL-FN-2026-029}, month = {march}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-FN-2026-029}, abstract = {This note captures the design rationale for two interconnected extensions to the Your Ecological Address (YEA) platform: **YEA Lab**, a data science portal for interactive ecological monitoring and analysis, and **YEA Journal**, a hypermedia publication layer that narrates the findings emerging from the platform's accumulating data. Where the field guide presents an interpretive reading experience organized around curated natural areas, the Lab provides the analytical workspace where monitoring data can be explored across time, space, and ecological gradients. The Journal sits between them as the publication layer — a place-based naturalist's magazine that synthesizes trends, highlights discoveries, and links readers into the Lab to explore the evidence behind the stories. Together with the existing field guide, these form a four-part architecture: **Guide** (reference), **Journal** (publication), **Lab** (analysis), and **Archive** (documentation) — each serving a distinct cognitive mode while sharing a common data substrate.} }