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Status Report 13 September 2004

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+ * EcoGrid group
+ ** Decision to use LSID identifiers for all objects on EcoGrid, which means we'll need to do some re-implementation of the already-implemented interfaces
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+ * KR/SMS group
+ ** Continued work on Growl interface
+ ** Discussion of how to best facilitate creation of ontologies by domain scientists, difficulty of using OWL for this
+ *** Started exploring the use of Concept Maps for this sort of visualization
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+ * Kepler group
+ ** New search capability for actors includes ontology-driven search checked into Kepler on branch ONTOLOGY_PRELIM
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+ * Taxon group
+ ** Continued work on taxon exchange schema and the name service support of the schema
+ ** Several manuscripts in preparation
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+ * BEAM
+ ** Preparing for September workshop
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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)
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+ * 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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+ Completed tasks / bugs fixed
+ * 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).
+ * 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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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * 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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+ !!Matt Jones
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- * Presented at the 4s conference
+ * KNB workshop agenda and planning
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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__
+ * 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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+ !!Nico Franz
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Working on "Why GUIDs?" section of GUID/concept manuscript, reviewing common motivations for using GUIDs in science etc.
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- * Make the sql engine for data query more configurable
+ * SQL engine for data query in kepler is almost done.
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- * Integrate data query interface with sql engine.
+ * Intergrating querybuilder and sql engine code into kepler.
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+ Significant issues
+ * None
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- !!Nico Franz
+ !!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
+ * 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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+ !!David Stockwel/Haowei Liu
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Added support for generation of ResNet files for output of WhyWhere
+ * Performed additional data analysis utilizing SRB/Ecogrid datastore for data
+ * Supported new users in installing WhyWhere software utilizing SRB/Ecogrid data store
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+ !!Rich Williams
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Fixing bugs in GrOWL OWL rendering
+ * Making modifications to GrOWL user interface
+ * Reviewing and adding to paper on GrOWL being lead by Serguei
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+ !!Dave Thau
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * add rdf metadata to taxon lsid server
+ * get taxon lsid server working with ibm's launchpad application
+ * prepare for GUID talk at TDWG in October
+ * outline and add services to taxon lsid server
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+ !!Rod Spears
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Bug 1660 - Add QueryBuilder to the Data Actors
+ ** Working with Jing to integrate and get the SQL working
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+ Significant issues
+ * None
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+ !!Deana Pennington
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- * Starting to write - with Dave Thau & Jessie Kennedy - a draft of the concept/GUID paper.
+ * prep for biodiversity workshop Sep 21-23
+ * working on niche concept maps
+ * working on biodiversity concepts
+ * working on scaling/spatial concepts
+ * evaluating CMaps, GrOWL
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+ !! Sergui Krivov
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * I have been working mainly on Growl paper and completed the first draft.
+ * In the process of systematic description of owl to growl mapping several bugs and one big design glitch were discovered. I had to fix the glitch by rewriting part of rendering code. Most of the bugs, though were in Rich’s domain
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+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Have to fix the bug with rendering properties with no domain/range defined
+ * Finally enhance growl website with clear graphic vocabulary
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- * Planning a shorter trip to KU on September 23 & 24 to exchange ideas about TES, concepts, GUIDs, etc.
+ * Thinking about process ontologies, owl query language and usability of such a languages in context of workflow constructions.
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+ !!Bing Zhu
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+ Completed tasks / bugs fixed
+ * Completed the implementation of Ecogrid's put service for Metacat.
+ * Created the gwsdl for Ecogrid's Authentication service and checked in the code of the service stubs
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Working on Ecogrid's Registry

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