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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 () |
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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 |
| + |
| + * Functional Traits Databases |
| + ** USDA Plants (tons of plants, taxonomic subspecies, ...) [http://plants.usda.gov/] |
| + |
| + * 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 |
| + |
| + * 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 |
| + |
| + * 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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