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Beam Knowledge Rep SMS Mar 05

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- !! Participants
+ !!! Participants
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- * Bertram Ludaescher (ludaesch@sdsc.edu)
+ * Bertram Ludaescher (ludaesch@ucdavis.edu)
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- * Manu Jiyal (manu.jayal@asu.edu)
+ * Manu Jayal (manu.jayal@asu.edu)
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- * Else Cleland ()
+ * Else Cleland (elsac@stanford.edu)
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- !! Goals
+ !!! Goals
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- !! Agenda
+ !!! Agenda
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- !! Notes
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- ! March 7th
+ !! March 7th
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- ** Goals of the meeting
- * ...
+ ** Goals of the meeting / Agenda
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+ * Aimee on Taxon
+ ** Now trying to get data into the system
+ ** Presentation from TDWG (Taxonomic Database Working Group)
+ *** solution
+ **** connect data and ideas in dbs
+ **** allow searches and retrievals
+ **** be customizable by the user
+ *** architecture
+ *** allow alternative algorithms to weight matches
+ *** allow taxonomists to: author new ideas, make new connections
+ **** along with a pub., publish the new connections, etc.
+ *** german moss data most comprehensive so far; 24000 concepts
+ *** ITIS is shallow/incomplete concepts
+ *** How to fit in with functional traits?
+ **** Some dbs in Europe; not in US
+ **** Can't derive functional traits to taxon; but a lot of constraints are taxonomic
+ **** Characteristic data ... hard to obtain
+ **** Ancillary db mined from literature on characteristics of species, mining data from these Floras
+ **** Building an analysis that works off of gene sequencing ... e.g., by incorporating GenBank
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+ * Functional Traits Databases
+ ** USDA Plants (tons of plants, taxonomic subspecies, ...) [http://plants.usda.gov/]
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+ * Manu
+ ** Reconciling datasets
+ *** Why don't datasets match, how to bring them "to the same level"
+ ** Observations
+ *** entities, context, methodology, unit, ..., representation
+ *** e.g., observations of overhunting
+ *** certain "functions" are called: e.g., rescaling, reprojecting, etc.
+ *** how to represent these rules? ...
+ **** A lot of discussion on transformation
+ **** Mark wants to know how to do unit conversion
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+ * Shawn
+ ** Onto stuff
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+ * Some datasets
+ ** arc: lgcover2001
+ ** gce: PLT-GCED-0409
+ ** Niwot and Konza sites have data, e.g., that require multiple datasets to create an "integratable" source
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+ * Use case: Reconstructing an Experiment
+ ** Data Request Form:
+ **# Selected Sites with plants with only little or none secondary growth (shrubs) ... Herbacious dominated
+ **# Replicated Plots (to compute means)
+ **# Experimental manipulation of resources
+ **# Species specific abundance in some way
+ **# At first, wanted time series, but then couldn't do it -- chose the most recent year
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+ * Data integration
+ ** Do a column-by-column merge
+ *** for example r1(A, B) and r2(C, D) creates: r(A, B, C, D)
+ *** or, if you know, e.g., that A and C are similar (e.g., Area), then: r(AC, S, B, D), where S is a lineage column
+
+ !! Tuesday 8 March 2005
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+ * [KR/SMS/Taxon Integration Breakout | KrSmsTaxon2005Mar8]
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