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| + Notes created by Shawn Bowers |
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| + ! Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004 |
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| + * 8:30 - 9:00 |
| + ** Jim Beach on today's schedule; politics in Kansas primer |
| + ** Guest from NatureServe (Gwynn ...) |
| + ** Mike Frame from USGS |
| + ** Liz Blood from NSF (not here yet ...) |
| + ** NCSA ... |
| + ** New Folks |
| + *** Laura Downey (unm, usability engineer) |
| + *** Jianting Zhang (postdoc, unm) |
| + *** Steve Teckell (seek web-developer) |
| + *** Mark Serilla (LTER, network information system) |
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| + *** Matt Jones |
| + **** Kepler |
| + ***** Goal is to: create powerful analytical tools that is useful across disciplines; ecology, biology, engineering, geology, physics, ... |
| + ***** Model the way scientists work w/ their data now: mentally coordinate export and import of data among software systems |
| + ***** Workflows emphasize data flow |
| + ***** metadata-driven data ingestion |
| + ***** output generation includes creating appropriate metadata |
| + **** Kepler Today |
| + ***** EcoGrid support: EML data support; DarwinCore data support; EcoGrid registry to discover data sources |
| + ***** Ontology-based browsing |
| + ***** Demonstration workflows |
| + ****** Ecological niche models |
| + ****** Biodiversity analysis tools |
| + **** EcoGrid queries ... |
| + **** EcoGrid: EML Data Access |
| + **** Right-click data box to get EML metadata display |
| + **** Query builder |
| + ***** QBE style query |
| + ***** Query execution: EML Metadata + Data -> generate DDL to create temp dbs -> HSQL executes data -> result |
| + **** EcoGrid DarwinCore Access |
| + **** Actor Search and Browse: support multiple views (tuned to ecologist) ... switchable at runtime |
| + **** Kepler for Ecological Modeling |
| + **** Biodiversity indices (from Dan) |
| + **** R in Kepler |
| + **** ROADNet Realtime (Revelle ship) |
| + **** Kepler This Year: |
| + ***** User Interface ... need a full eval and reworking of all UI for our target group |
| + ****** Semantic annotation interface / ontology browsing interfaces |
| + ***** Distributed computing / grid computing |
| + ****** large jobs; lots of machines; detaiched execution |
| + ***** "Smart" data discovery (as for actors) |
| + ****** support for data sources that are distributed |
| + ***** Actor repository / downloadable actors |
| + ***** Integration and transformation using semantics |
| + ****** generate required transformation for: data-actor integration; actor-actor integration |
| + ****** handle "semantics" for R scripts, etc. |
| + ******* file based buffering reduces our ability to reason about the data flow |
| + ******* SMB: ''not exactly sure where the precise problem is here ...'' |
| + ****** Finish EcoGrid Access |
| + ******* full EML support |
| + ******* support for "large" data and 3rd party transfer |
| + ******* more data sources and types of data sources (e.g., JDBC, GEON data) |
| + ****** Provenance and metadata propagation |
| + *** Shawn Bowers (me) |
| + *** Jessie Kennedy |
| + **** SEEK Taxon Scenario |
| + **** Goal is to develop the taxon name server |
| + **** High-level approach |
| + ***** extract information from taxonomic concept providers; and convert to taxonomy transfer schema (TML) |
| + ***** "Semantic Mediation System" used to do concept matching/expansion/weighted concepts; leveraged from EML |
| + ***** Most focus on Taxonomy Transfer schema |
| + **** Names versus concepts problems |
| + ***** use concepts instead of names .... decouple concepts from names |
| + ***** taxon name: label/word/string |
| + ****** used for communicating ideas about organisms or groups of organisms ... meaningless without a definition, but it is used as if it has a clear meaning |
| + ****** full scientific name: sci name + author abbreviation [+date] |
| + ******* implies a concept: as intended and documented by the original author of then ame |
| + ****** vernacular name: scrub history |
| + ***** What is a concept? |
| + ****** taxon concept: unique name plus definition |
| + ******* full sci. name + "according to" (author + date) |
| + ****** Taxon goals |
| + ******* define use case; acceess current taxon working practice; design schema for object server; implement prototype; eval globally unique ids and their applicability |
| + ****** investigate interface between SMS and taxon group |
| + ****** end user tools |
| + ***** progress: |
| + ****** use cases finished, but still under review |
| + ****** taxon working practice: developed a langauge definition, etc ... |
| + ***** version 1.01 ... aimee and robert will demo |
| + ***** globally unique ids: UUIDs, handle system, DOIs, LSIDs |
| + ***** prototype ... |
| + ***** interface with sms: session during the week to discuss |
| + ***** case study, anticipating north american mammals example |
| + *** Deana Pennington |
| + **** Original goals |
| + ***** case studies in ecology and biodiversity |
| + ***** assemble a framework that interconnects ... |
| + **** First project: eco niche modeling |
| + ***** mammal project |
| + ***** 2-3 dispersal scenarios; 2 major evolutionary-computing algorithms (GA and NN); 21 GCM scenarios, including all IPCC scenarios |
| + **** eco niche modeling |
| + **** 2nd beam project, focusing on biodiversity |
| + ***** use biodiversity and productivity field data |
| + ***** link with enm project |
| + ***** use biodiversity indices |
| + ***** expand group of scientists |
| + **** nceas group: Waid, Scheiner, Willig, Cox, Chalcraft; biodiv/productivity scaling rels in semi-arid grasses |
| + **** pdtnet group: Suding, Weiher, Collins, Cleland, Clark; biodiv/productivity functional rels in semi-arid grasses |
| + **** ENM/biodiv integrated analysis |
| + ***** remotely sensed imagery -> from Jim Quinn at Davis |
| + *** Samantha Romanello |
| + **** EOT |
| + ***** Current activities: on-site trainings; conf. workshops and related activities; new website |
| + ***** future activities: on-line modules; distributed graduate seminar |
| + **** on-site trainings |
| + **** new fac. and postdoc workshop |
| + ***** how to incorporate into their teaching |
| + ***** results of the workshop from last january |
| + *** Raja |
| + **** GOAL: EcoGrid as a standardized interface (using web and grid services) |
| + **** Grid-standardized interfaces: uniform interface to metacat, srb, digir, xanthoria; anyone can implement these interfaces; hides complexity of underlying systems |
| + **** metadata-mediated data access |
| + ***** supports multiple metadata standard, EML, Darwin Core as foci |
| + ***** computational services: pre-defined analytical services; on-the-fly analytical services |
| + **** all based on gwsdl service |
| + **** metacat and srb services implemented |
| + **** metadata: EML and darwin core |
| + **** authentication |
| + **** query sevice level 1: get/query services; web-based available |
| + **** registry services: implemented in 2 phases -- reimplemented -- list of avail services on web |
| + **** Next steps: |
| + ***** design and impl. other ecogrid services |
| + ***** extend existing services |
| + ***** more ams integration - kepler |
| + ***** more sms integration - growl (?) |
| + ***** add new services: onto servers, taxon servers, LSID server |
| + ***** user interface development |
| + ***** documentation and training |
| + ***** enable more apps and data ingestions |
| + ***** increase user collaborations |
| + *** Laura Downey |
| + **** usability |
| + ***** "the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effictiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of users" |
| + ***** "an approach that incorporates direct user feedback througout the development cycle to reduce costs and create products and tools that meet user needs." |
| + **** benefits o fusability: increased productivity, sales and revenues, customer satisfaction; decrease traning and support costs, etc. |
| + **** real world example: after move.com completed the redesign of two problem features, users ability to find a home increases from 62 to 98 percent, sales lead generation to real estate agents increased 150%. |
| + **** user interface + functionality = usability |
| + ***** elegant or sophisticated internal algorithms don't make any diff inf the interface is bad ... |
| + **** software versus usability engineering: ui code 30 percent, now almost 50-60; maintainence, etc. |
| + ***** typical software program is released with 40 usability design problems; over 70% of CIO's state on of biggest problems is communicating with users |
| + **** incorporate usability in seek |
| + ***** collect demographic data |
| + ***** task analysis (interviews and observations) |
| + ***** apply good human factors and design principles |
| + ***** iterative design |
| + ***** gather user feedback and input: ind. interviews; group discussions; usability evals and testing; categorization exercises; self-reporting; satisfaction surveys |
| + **** general design principles |
| + ***** use minimalist approach but provide details on demand |
| + ***** apply consisten visual and information design (readability, coding, color, icons, metaphors, data organization) |
| + ***** apply appropriate interaction design (tasks, and user's understanding) |
| + ***** minimize memory and attention load (memory and processing information limitations) [http://www.laoairlines.com] |
| + ***** speak users' language (user terminology not geek-speak) |
| + **** providing flexibility (shortcuts, RCMs, wizards); provide status and feedback; provide meaningful error and feedback messages |
| + **** upcoming usability activities |
| + ***** seek annual meeting: general usability discussion |
| + ***** kepler - december: needs dicsussion, observation during training, group executioin of two simple scenarios |
| + ***** esa data registry -- february: individual or group usabilitiy testing on registering data |
| + ***** issues or ideas on the usability of SEEK tools then contact me: Laura L. Downey |
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| + ! Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004 |
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| - ! November 4, 2004 |
| + ! Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 |
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| - ! NOvember 5, 2004 |
| + ! Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 |
