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Status Report 21 February 2005

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- Reports are being submitted and will be summarized on Tuesday.
- If you just submitted a report, it will be at the bottom of this page.
+ * SSDBM papers occupied much of our time
+ * Kepler
+ ** Kepler 1.0.0alpha4_1 released
+ ** Kepler developer's workshop was held in Juneau
+ ** KNB ans SEEK training workshop at UNM
+ ** NSF proposal submitted to extend Kepler for use on real-time data streams
+ * KR-SMS
+ ** New version of Growl released
+ * Taxon
+ ** Continued work on Taxonomic Concept Schema
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- ** I wrote loading code (File to Jena to Graph)__
+ ** I wrote loading code (File to Jena to Graph)
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- * Jena performance (memory consumption) is a significant issue - It was difficult to learn what helps and here is my experience:__Use ExtendedIterator instead of Iterator and do not forget to close it__Use forced garbage collection after having done with OntModel__These things help but still I wish it were a bit faster. Does anyone know any other tricks?
+ * Jena performance (memory consumption) is a significant issue - It was difficult to learn what helps and here is my experience: Use ExtendedIterator instead of Iterator and do not forget to close it, Use forced garbage collection after having done with OntModel, These things help but still I wish it were a bit faster. Does anyone know any other tricks?
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+ !!Nico Franz
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+ Completed tasks / bugs fixed
+ * Made suggestions (together with Robert Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Xianhua Liu and others) to improve the structure of the Taxonomic Concept Schema during SBA SEEK Taxon meetings.
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+ Current tasks / bugs
+ * Working a comprehensive and well-structured list of Code-prescribed relationships among names and concepts.
+ * Putting together some examples with high-quality concepts and relationships to be represented in Martin Graham's visualization tool.
+ * Will continue along with others to scope SEEK Taxon tool for viewing and editing concepts and their relationships.
+ * Working with Napier and UNC on two publications.
+ * Writing a primer (now mainly) for Kate Jones (U Columbia) to provide bat concepts and relationships for BEAM niche modeling project.
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+ Significant issues
+ * None, other than advancing those publications...

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