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Development Tasks Nov 2004

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+ __Organize!__
+ * Draw dependency diagram of tasks with names (wiki) - get input from responsible parties (Aimee, Thau)
+ * Add API calls to WIKI page next to WSDL link, update as needed (Aimee - DONE)
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+ ** Pre: Decide on version of TCS to work from for now (Trevor, Aimee)
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- * add MSW data, changes over time, in TCS format
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+ * Integrate LSID server (Thau, Robert, Aimee)
+ * add MSW data, changes over time, in TCS format
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- * Integrate LSID server into
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- __Visualization Browsing and Editing Tools__
- * Browser within 6 mos
- * Editing within 9 months?
- * What kind of editing tools are needed?
- ** single concept
- ** batch addition, editing
- * Should we have seperate tools? There should be coordination between the 2 - not different displays for user to view
- * How does current work fit in?
- ** Xianhua's TaCBE tool, browsing and editing - where does this fit in?
- ** Napier's (Martin) visualization tool for tree comparison - doesn't edit
+ * Algorithms (Aimee, Robert, experts)
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- __Dataset markup tools__
- * modification of EML taxonomic section
- * allow manual markup of dataset metadata
- * auto markup
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- __Napier__
- * tool to define mappings from other dbs to TCS
+ __TCS work__
+ * Jessie will meet with Paul Kirk to discuss variation in valid name types and generate an appropriate schema with list of examples (2 weeks)(Name Work)
+ * Map between TCS, DarwinCore, EML (Trevor)
+ *** Pre: Name Work above
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+ __Tools: Visualization, Browsing, and Editing Tools__
+ * Bob, Nico and Xianhua will summarize issues on wiki (2 weeks)
+ ** 3 timeframes (January, semi-short, long)
+ ** look at Napier work/proposal and see if/how they can work together
+ ** Who are the users of each tool?
+ ** Use cases for Tools
+ * Should we have seperate browsing/editing tools? There should be coordination between the 2 - not different displays for user to view
+ * Tool for marking up EML datasets with concepts
+ ** Pre: modification of EML taxonomic section
+ ** manual/auto markup of dataset metadata
+ * Tool for adding relationships between existing concepts
+ ** How does current work fit in?
+ *** Napier's (Martin) visualization tool for tree comparison - doesn't edit
+ *** Xianhua's TaCBE tool, browsing and editing - where does this fit in?
+ * Tool for creating new concepts
+ ** What kind of editing tools are needed?
+ *** single concept
+ *** batch addition, editing
+ ** User Guide: Walk the experts through the concept creation steps()
+ * Tool to define mappings from other dbs to TCS (Trevor)
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- ** Populate concepts for those taxa
- ** Experts to help map relationships b/w concepts we get (who?)
- ** Nico will help from Taxonomic perspective
+ ** Experts to help map relationships b/w historical concepts (who?)
+ *** Pre: Broad guidelines first, then experts will help modify. Example driven guidelines for experts - beginning of User Guide (Nico, Trevor, Bob, Jessie)
+ ** Create TCS doc for import of concept data into SEEK Taxon cache (Nico, Jessie)
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+ * Dataset annotation (learning step)
+ ** Test concept dataset generation (name, source) (Jessie, Trevor, Thau)
+ ** Generate LSIDs for the concepts within (Thau)
+ ** Annotation of EML with test concepts (Matt, Thau)
+ ** Maybe use controlled vocabulary (Smithsonian?)
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+ * Integrate functionality of TOS with Kepler (Robert, Aimee, Thau)
+ ** Learn Kepler
+ ** Determine what actors to build
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- * Need links between APIs and Ecogrid
- ** Reindex existing datasets - ecological and specimen records, modify EML records
- ** Query with name for concepts then datasets fro concepts
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- * Identify mechanism/plan for any given scientific study
- ** Formulate plan
- ** Walk the experts through the concept creation steps
- * Create TCS doc for import into SEEK Taxon cache (Nico, Jessie)
- * historical concepts/relationships
- * integrate functionality of TOS with Ecogrid
+ __LONG Term__
+ * integrate TOS with Ecogrid
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- ** term expansion in client for now
- ** smart searching - currently divided into 2 searches, need to integrate SMS and Taxonn searching, Shawn thinks - bring it in locally
+ *** smart searching - currently divided into 2 searches, need to integrate SMS and Taxon searching
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- ** How do we annotate datasets - metadata generation
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- * Modify taxonomic part of EML
+ * Modify taxonomic part of EML (Matt, Jessie)
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+ *** Pre: Name Work above
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- ** Maybe use controlled vocabulary (Smithsonian?)
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- * Modify Morpho tool which is pulling taxonomic names/info from datasets to use TOS for concept matching
- ** Ecological datasets vs specimen datasets
+ * Integrate dataset annotation with TOS
+ ** Pre: SMS annotation for smart data discovery
+ ** Pre: EML modification
+ ** 2 types: Ecological datasets vs specimen datasets
+ ** How do we annotate datasets - metadata generation
+ ** Modify Morpho tool which is pulling taxonomic names/info from datasets to use TOS for concept matching
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- * Map between TCS, DarwinCore, EML (Jessie)
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+ __Publications__
+ * concept language - Nico, Bob, Jessie (1 month)
+ * for Ecologists - Trevor, Bob, Nico ()
+ * General SEEK Taxon paper, where the field is going (Beach) (not begun)
+ * QRB (submitted)
+ * Concepts and GUIDs (Systematics Biology - Nico, Thau, Jessie) (3 months for internal review)
+ * Technical aspects of concepts and GUIDs (Thau and ??) (not begun)

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