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Status Report 12 July 2004

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- ! Collecting reports, will summarize tommorrow
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+ ** Shawn is writing a new [manual for the measurement ontology|EcoOntologyManualDraft] that Rich is building
+ ** Shawn points out the need for us to really develop a well-thought out approach to handling identifiers throughout SEEK
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+ ** Working on ontology-based browsing in Kepler to make it easier to find data and actors
+ ** Some new actors for biodiversity calculations and running 'R' scripts are available in Kepler
+ ** Working on data query UI design and implementing data query functions for EcoGrid
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- * Taxon group
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- * EOT group
+ ** Loading new data into SRB, working on put interface for writing data
+ ** Jing is working on data query and subsetting interface for EcoGrid
+ ** Steve is starting to design and implement a web interface for EcoGrid for the website
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- * Personnel
+ * Annual Report
+ ** The annual report to NSF is due. We will need a complete list of SEEK-sponsored publications from all participants. I will send a reminder email. Also, group leaders will be asked to write a summary of this year's progress (Beach, Jones, Michener, Rajasekar, Schildhauer, Ludaescher) for inclusion in the report using NSF's required format (see last year's report).
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+ !! Jenny Wang
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Correctly handle union types of matches from the GUI of our schema matching tool.
+ * Partially implemented the abstract schema interface and devoloped a translator that imports DTDs into the schema matching tool as Abstract Schemas. But the "OR" case in DTDs is not handled in an appropriate way yet. Also it may require changes to the abstract schema interface when going further on the design and implementation of schema morphisms.
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+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Work on 2 paper drafts
+ * Fix more bugs of the tool:
+ ** Modify the GUI to include an arrow panel for indicating where it is working on,
+ ** correctly handle union types of matches identified during matching process,
+ **consistently highlight where user attention is needed
+ * Implement abstract schemas and abstract schema morphisms to make the tool more general: develope another translator for importing XML Schemas into the tool as Abstract Schemas, and design a schema morphism interface.
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+ Significant Issues:
+ * The implementation of abstract schemas and schema morphisms will help the tool handle constraints to some extent.
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+ !! [Steve Tekell|LTER.stekell]
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Fixed and in Prod. : [Bug 1616|http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616] - RSS feed shows incorrect URL
+ * Converting old wiki content
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+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Eco Grid Web Interface - first, figure out what this is
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+ Significant Issues
+ * None
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+ !! Robert Gales
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * None
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+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Bug 1618 - Fix rank representation in DB to support the schema and entry of taxonomic concepts
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+ Significant Issues
+ * None
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+ !! Jing Tao
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * None
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+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Working on data access rules in ecogrid metacat.
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+ Significant Issues
+ * None
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+ !! Bing Zhu
+ Completed Tasks/Bugs Fixed:
+ * Developed a Perl script to upload 'whywhere' data along with their metadata into SRB. Whywhere data was successfully uploaded into SRB storage place. This completed the initial task for SEEK bug 1596.
+ * Developed an initial implementation within SRB for Niche Modeling to retrieve partial images. With this implementation, Niche Modeling applications successfully get partial images and Metadata in a distributed environment.
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+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * continue work on an Ecogrid solution for Niche Modeling. The prospective approach will have a generic approach which can be applied to other applications who request partial data transfer. (Bug 1596)
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+ Significant Issues:
+ * The initial prototype designed by Raja and Bing for Ecogrid will extend the SRB capability into Ecogrid to allow partial data retrieval within Ecogrid.
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+ !! Aimee Stewart
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+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Finished initial work on multi-threaded parser (bug 1617) for taxonomic exchange schema. This encompasses a reference parser for parsing Vouchers (bug 1620) and Publications (bug 1619). Testing still needs to be completed on these objects though, so the bugs are not resolved yet. Made other modifications to concept objects to handle additional fields in the schema.
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+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Working on the API for enterProviderData (bug 1576). The next step in this process will be to thoroughly test the parsers and handlers with our available data. Since the schema is not yet in final form, I will concentrate on testing elements of the TES parsing for which we have data.
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+ Significant issues
+ * none
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