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Status Report 14 June 2004

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- Collecting individual reports, will summarize on 15 June
+ * Taxon group
+ ** Question has arisen about how linking is modeled in the Taxonomic Exchange Standard
+ ** Reworking protype implementation fo name service
+ ** Thau creating user authentication module (need to discuss with Tekell and EcoGrid ASAP)
+ ** Peer review module being developed
+
+ * Kepler group
+ ** UI design discussions ramping up
+ ** Presenting Kepler and SMS stuff at SSDBM in Greece (Berkley/Bowers)
+ ** New nightly build/test system in development
+
+ * EOT group
+ ** New website authentication working, just about ready to deploy
+ ** Organizing training workshops for Fall
+
+ * SMS/KR group
+ ** New Java API being developed for accessing Sparrow from Kepler
+ ** Working on Growl UI and capabilities
+ ** Working on ontology for biodiversity indices
+ ** Working on paper regarding the ant data prototype
+
+ * EcoGrid group
+ ** New resultset implemented for Metacat, DiGIR, SRB
+ ** Working on data query design and interfaces
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+ * BEAM group
+ ** Putting data in SRB for later access through EcoGrid
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+ !! Xianhua Liu
+
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Finished design of Auto-Manager: auto-email, auto-assignment and auto-decision
+ * Implemented auto-email function
+
+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * developing Auto-Manager for Concept Review System to automatically complete some system administration tasks, such as sending emails,assigning proposals to peer-viewers.
+
+ Significant Issues
+ * None
+
+ !! Sergui Krivov
+
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * developed toolbox pane (no icons yet) and enabled raw visual editing of simple owl constructs
+ * wrote a small section of growl paper
+
+ Current Work and Bug
+ * functions for editing relations and links
+ ** owl-dl compliance resolution for graphic primitives
+ * enable node property editing
+ * one more section for growl paper
+
+ Significant issues
+ * Should we support owl-full? All who responded seems favor support for owl-dl only
+
+ !! Rich WIlliams
+
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * None
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Developing an ontology for biodiversity indices, extending existing ontologies to accommodate this, and adding instances for the biodiversity indices and related concepts. This includes a general model for properties computed in terms of other properties.
+ * Review/comment on paper that Shawn is lead author on, about the inter-ant parasitism semantic mediation prototype.
+ * GrOWL editor: updating of the OWL model when the user edits the displayed graph
+
+ 3) Significant issues
+ * I looked into existing work on the semantics of mathematics, potentially for use when defining quantities in terms of other measured quantities. A useful initiative is www.openmath.org, an emerging standard for representing the semantics of mathematical objects.
+
+ !! Jing Tao
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Finished the collaboration and class diagram draft design for bug 1584 and 1586
+ * Installed and evaluated both windows and linux SAS as sql engine
+ * Resinstalled and tested Metacat ecogrid server in my local machine after Rod changed the code according to the change of resultset
+
+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Continue to find a good sql engine for data query
+ * Probably start to code after finding a good sql engine
+ * Fix some bugs in ecogrid client after the resultset change
+
+ Significant Issues
+ * None
+
+ !! Aimee Stewart
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Bug 1602 - Moved the Taxonomic Object Service SOAP service to http://seek.ittc.ku.edu:9080/TaxObjServ . The WSDL is available from the link there (http://seek.ittc.ku.edu:9080/TaxObjServ/services/TaxonomicObjectService?wsdl).
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+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Working on Bug 1576 - Implement EnterProviderData. This includes modifying the architecture somewhat to separate database modification methods from database query methods into separate classes. Also adding a database connection class which will be used by both DB classes.
+ * Described (in an email to Seek-Taxon) the difficulties we are encountering with the assumption that a GUID-bearing Taxonomic Concept is defined by the current Taxon Exchange Schema.
+
+ Significant issues
+ * Taxon Exchange Schema and GUIDs described in seek-taxon email. This may warrant a Seek-Taxon teleconference, preferably by polycom.
+
+ !! Chad Berkley
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Worked on the Kepler poster for SSDBM
+ * Worked on nightly build systems for kepler (bug 1588)
+ * Began preperation to go to SSDBM
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Hopefully get a nightly build system working
+ * Leave for Greece
+
+ Significant issues
+ * none
+
+ !! Nico Franz
+
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * None, really.
+
+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Since SEEK Edinburgh, has been writing on a substantial manuscript (with R. Peet as co-author) for the journal Taxon, which deals with concepts and relationships among them.
+ * The manuscript is about half-way completed; will take another 2-4 weeks to be ready for internal review.
+ * This work is seen as a precursor to the GUID development, i.e. it's trying to answer the question when/what (something) should get a GUID.
+
+ Significant Issues
+ * There's been a bit of a quiet in SEEK Taxon after the Edinburgh meetings, but apparently that just ended today, with KU sending out an update/request.
+ * As the TDWG New Zealand planning is moving ahead, would like to make sure that the concept/relation paper is part of our SEEK Taxon presentation package there.
+
+ !! Deana Pennington
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * completed specs for IPCC climate data processing as kepler design workflow and accompanying document
+ * completed specs for sampling actor
+ * sent notes on Kepler (user feedback) to Rod
+ * sent GARP output schema to Shawn
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * planning for new BEAM working group on diversity/productivity
+ * getting all relevant data for ecological niche modeling project into the SRB
+ * thinking about user interface design and testing approaches
+
+ Significant issues
+ * will have to create EML for all of the IPCC data
+ * need a decision on the useability engineer slot (LOTS of discussion on the lists about the UI & testing)
+
+ !! Samantha Romanello
+
+ Completed tasks and Bugs fixed
+ * Finalized agenda for upcoming Data Management Tools Workshop
+ * Finalized GIS agenda for RCN training
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Website
+ ** Working on copy for education section of website; attaching links to presentations of former and current trainings.
+ * Trainings
+ ** Need to finalize ecoinformatics agenda for RCN training October 18- 30:
+ ** Composing email for Monthly SEEK Seminar
+
+ * Conferences and Events
+ ** In contact with Sandy re moprho tutorial for upcoming ESA August 1 - 7: Workshop; Evening Session
+ ** Working on poster presentation for ESA
+
+ Significant issues
+ * Finalize participant and trainer numbers for September KNB Data Management Tools training -- conference call scheduled for June 22.
+ * Finalize ecoinformatics agenda and logistics for RCN training October 18- 30
+
+ !! Jenny Wang
+
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Analyzed our schema matching tool user interface design
+ * Fixed one of the bugs for improving its UI: the windows for 2 schema trees were changed to be individually scrollable in order to be able to visually handle the mappings between very large schemas
+
+ Current Work and Bugs:
+ * Work on 2 paper drafts
+ * Fix more bugs of the tool:
+ ** make details of nodes accessible from the GUI,
+ ** look for solutions for the conflicted requirements on java version from running multiple threads on windows and the XQuery engine with Kepler.
+
+ Significant Issues
+ * The second bug is related to making easier connection of our tool with Kepler.
+
+ !! Dave Thau
+
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Got local version of the taxon server set up in my IDE and running on my home machine.
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Working on bug #1597 - the intial user management for the taxon server. Wrote initial tests and some of the code for logging in / logging out and editing user information. Probably will finish this part by Wednesday.
+ * Working on paper with Shawn Bowers for the Semantic Web and Databases conference.
+
+ Significant issues
+ * None.
+
+ !! Shawn Bowers
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Worked mainly on Bug 1592 "describe Sparrow toolkit interface". In particular, defined a preliminary draft of a Java API for accessing ontological information via Sparrow to support Bug 1546 "dynamic data and actor views using ontologies". I also defined a simple extension to the API (set of derived classes) for Bug 1546, which would take a single concept from an ontology and return a tree-structure representing the appropriate Kepler tree-view for browsing (that is, the result is a data structure that could be used to populate a tree-view, however that would work). Still need to add to the API to fully support bug 1546, since it requires access to information about actors.I'll "release" a stable version of the APIs soon, as Javadocs and UML diagrams. Want to prototype it first.
+ * Worked on a paper with Dave Thau and Rich Williams to describe the Ant Parasitism SMS prototype. It is due on the 21st.
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Need to start working on implementing the API, which means writing the java code and connecting it to the Sparrow code (this work is situated in bug 1592 and 1546).
+ * Extend API (see 1 above).
+ * Need to finish writing the paper
+ * Need to prepare slides for SSDBM paper -- I leave Friday.
+
+ Significant issues
+ * none
+
+ !! Robert Gales
+
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * Split the taxonomic object service into two interfaces, ITOSQueryable for handling queries to the Taxon cache and ITOSModifiable for adding information to the Taxon cache
+ * Created a facade object CTOSFacade that implements both interfaces and exposes the taxonomic object service through SOAP.
+ * Moved the previous CMainTOS to CTOSQueryEngine implementing the ITOSQueryable interface and created the stub class CTOSModEngine implementing the ITOSModifiable interface.
+ * Implemented the CDetailedName class for handling the complex atomized names
+ * Moved all classes that are parts of a concept from the tree package to the concept package.
+
+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Bug 1577 - Implement AddRelationship
+ * Bug 1603 - Implement AddConcept
+ * Bug 1604 - Convert ITIS database dump to TES
+
+ Significant Issues:
+ * None
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