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Ecoinformatics Booth 2006

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- This document is intended for those involved in planning the Ecoinformatics Booth at ESA 2006 in Memphis, TN in August 2005. It is a work in progress to hold ideas and suggestions and where all planning and logistical issues/decisions will be posted. Comments and feedback are appreciated.
+ This document is intended for those involved in planning the Ecoinformatics Booth at ESA 2006 in Memphis, TN in August 2006. It is a work in progress to hold ideas and suggestions and where all planning and logistical issues/decisions will be posted. Comments and feedback are appreciated.
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+ !!!Timeline
+ **Aug 15, 2005 - original proposal
+ **Sep 14, 2005 - Initial planning begun
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+ **August 2006 - ESA conference, Memphis, TN
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- *Raise awareness of provide publicity for projects and organizations involved in developing ecoinformatics tools
- *Demo and showcase ecoinformationcs tools
+ *Raise awareness about the ecoinformatics tools we are producing
+ *Raise awareness of/and provide publicity for projects and organizations involved in developing ecoinformatics tools
+ *Demo and showcase ecoinformatics tools
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+ *Interact with our user community
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- *single booth or double booth?
+ *securing a booth (Sam has already made the initial inquiries on this and we await word back from the conference committee)
+ *single booth or double booth?
+ *can we get a corner booth so we have more wall space?
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+ *connectivity and tech support available?
+ *when/where to ship materials before conference
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- *tools grouped by function rather than organizations
- *planned/announced times for specific sets of demos
+ *tools grouped by function rather than organizations, suggested areas from Matt are:
+ **Metadata and data acquisition
+ **Taxonomy and collections management
+ **Data storage and discovery frameworks
+ **data integration
+ **analysis and modeling
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+ *planned/announced times for specific sets of demos
+ *run/stage demos to run concurrently with poster sessions when traffic in exhibit hall is higher. Posters are less competition than presentation sessions
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+ !!!Tools to be "potentially" Demo'd (functionally grouped)
+ We can't of course do them all and will have to pare the list and choose a small number to demo and showcase.
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- !!!Tools to be Demo'd
- *Kepler
+ *Metadata and data acquisition
+ **Metacat(and harvester) (KNB, should include OBFS/NRS/ESA and other data registries)
+ **Metacat advanced query interface (LTER)
+ **Morpho (KNB)
+ **EML (KNB with others like ASU, Jones Center, PISCO, etc) and also including LTER Custom Unit Registry
+ **EML transform utilities (NCEAS/LTER/NBII)
+ **LTER Metadata Management System (concept) (LTER)
+ **Jalama handheld data acquisition (NCEAS with PISCO)
+ **VegBank (NCEAS with UNC/NatureServe, etc)
+ *Taxonomy and collections management
+ **Taxonomic Object Service (SEEK)
+ **Specify (KU)
+ **DigIR (KU with others)
+ **Lifemapper (KU)
+ *Data storage and discovery frameworks
+ **Ecogrid (SEEK)
+ **LTER Grid (LTER)
+ **SRB (SDSC with some support from KNB/SEEK)
+ *Data integration
+ **GAMA (SDSC, probably not but maybe)
+ **whatever tools we develop in KR/SMS specifically for use in data integration, which could be considered independent from other Kepler analysis (DP)
+ *Analysis and modeling
+ **Kepler (SEEK with others like GEON, etc)
+ **GrOWL (SEEK)
+ **Ontologies (SEEK)
+ **Sparrow/SMS/Kepler semantics tools (SEEK)
+ **OPenModeller/GARP (KU with others)
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+ *posters for groups/organizations?
+ *banner or free standing marker for booth?
+ *use table-top displays?
+ *publicity materials from various organizations
+ *give-aways and prizes
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+ !!!Notes
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