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NU Taxon Update_Sept 2005

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- *Data Sets for multiple taxonomy visualisation
+ *Explored possibility of auto-generating forms from xml through XForms technology
+ **Concluded that concrete [XForms|http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/] implementations not quite up to the job yet (June 2005)
+ **XForms works by taking a schema plus a corresponding xml 'instance' file to generate a forms document. The implementations so far (formsplayer, chiba, novell xforms) have difficulties with 'switch' and 'optional' elements in a schema - tcs contains both. Revisions to [XForms 1.1|http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/] will solve some of these issues (ability to insert optional elements into xml instance) if this technology is pursued in the future.
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+ *Produced TCS Data Sets for multiple taxonomy visualisation
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+ **ITIS TCS XML file huge for seven entire hierarchies - 650MB
+ ***Unwieldy for large data sets?
+ ***Takes 2.5 minutes to read in and parse (slightly faster with StAX v SAX parser) and uses 350MB+ memory
+ ***Two pass parsing uses less memory but 4 minutes to parse
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+ *Additions/Refinements to visualisation
+ **Ability to find uniquely named taxa out of a set of classifications
+ **Speeded up large tree comparisons - 2.5s to find classification structural changes
+ **Simple hash functions to reference names across classifications reduce memory footprint for sparser datasets without detriment to speed
+ **Added panel for visually comparing one particular name of interest across classifications
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+ *Attended TDWG 2005 meeting in St Petersburg
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