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Status Report 13 September 2004

Difference between version 4 and version 3:

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- !!Samantha Romanello
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+ !!Trevor Paterson
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Completed draft of paper on Abstract Model And Exchange Schema for Taxonomic Concepts
+ ** sent to some members of seek taxon for comments and information
+ * Started work on second paper focussing on the imortance and benefits of using Taxon concepts for ecologists
+ ** probably ready to send this out to possible coauthors next week
+ * Updating TDWG discussion WIKI on proposed draft standard exchange schema
+ * Addressing design issues with exchange schema as they arise from SEEK/KU and TDWG community
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+ !!Martin Graham
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Working on new layout for multiple hierarchy visualisation.
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+ !!Dan Higgins
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Working on finding/checking-on bugs in the installer version of kepler (e.g. problem with one of the R examples)
+ * Reviewing 'RServer' code as a method for simplifying the Kepler/R insterface and making the transfer of data easier
+ * Working on understanding the 'Grass' package as a GIS for Kepler
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+ !!Liu Xianhua
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Editing function of TCBE
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+ !!Aimee Stewart
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- * Presented at the 4s conference
+ * Finished propogating data model changes throughout the code to handle returning either fully defined concepts (with relationships) or incompletely defined concepts (bug 1647).
+ ** This included defining 2 new relationship classes, and abandoning some unnecessary classes (bug 1677).
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+ * Modified the CConcept class to more closely align it with the Taxonomic Information Exchange Schema (version 0.8). Propogated changes throughout code.
+ ** Algorithms were modified to test equality of new members.
+ * Minor refactoring was done to simplify the CConcept-related objects.
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- * Preparing for KNB Workshop at end of September__Complying and preparing evaluation materials for training article__Research on content management systems for online education modules and distributed graduate seminar__
+ * Tests for algorithms must be modified to match the new CConcept members
+ * The parser for enterProviderData has been modified to handle the newest version of the schema. This schema should be relatively stable, so no additional changes are yet planned. The parser is not completed, but at this point, all tests run successfully.
+ * Run XSLT transformer provided by Dave Thau
+ ** Must be modified to produce data for the newest schema version
+ ** Add resulting data to database using enterProviderData API
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- !!Jing Tao
+ !!Matt Jones
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- * Make the sql engine for data query more configurable
+ * KNB workshop agenda and planning
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- * Integrate data query interface with sql engine.
+ * Kepler changes in preparation for an alpha3 release
+ * Metacat changes in preparation for a release for the KNB workshop
+ * Reviewing ontology based searching in Kepler for Chad and Shawn
+ * Helping coordinate the ENM pipeline work so that it is finished for the Oct 15 release
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+ Significant issues
+ * Jianting Zhang started as a new postdoc at UNM focusing on SEEK work
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- * Starting to write - with Dave Thau & Jessie Kennedy - a draft of the concept/GUID paper.
+ * Working on "Why GUIDs?" section of GUID/concept manuscript, reviewing common motivations for using GUIDs in science etc.
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+ !!Jing Tao
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+ Completed tasks / bugs fixed
+ * SQL engine for data query in kepler is almost done.
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Intergrating querybuilder and sql engine code into kepler.
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- * Planning a shorter trip to KU on September 23 & 24 to exchange ideas about TES, concepts, GUIDs, etc.
+ * None
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+ !!Chad Berkley
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+ Completed tasks / bugs fixed
+ * Worked with Shawn to get the ontology search engine incorporated into kepler. It now works for a small test ontology in the branch ONTOLOGY_PRELIM of kepler
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+ * Finished tree restructuring search result handler
+ ** added search pane as a pluggable interface
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Creating bigger ontology for the kepler actor library
+ * fixing bugs in the actor tree search interface
+ * preparing for 10/15 kepler release
+ * looking at search interface to see if it could be extended to make ontology searching easier.

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