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Status Report 28 June 2004

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+ * KR/SMS Group
+ ** Discussing design of Growl ontology editor and browser -- hard UI issues in terms of exposing ontology information to scientists
+ ** Continued work on API for accessing Sparrow in Java
+ ** Bowers presented at SSDBM, submitted new ant parasitism paper for SWDB04
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+ ** Prototype of data query in Kepler in early design phase
+ ** Continued work on synhronizing with PTII 4.0
+ ** Continued work on GARP actors, in particular a sunsampling actor using R
+ ** Berkley presented Kepler paper at SSDBM
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+ ** Rod Spears is attending Globus/Grid conference this week representing SEEK
+ ** Continuing work on data query implementation
+ ** Uploaded Stockwell's data to SRB for access via EcoGrid
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+ * Taxon group
+ ** Integrating taxon authentication needs with web authentication via LDAP
+ ** Continued work on taxon name server implementation and taxonomic exchange standard
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+ ** Deployed new web site at [http://seek.ecoinformatics.org]
+ *** All SEEK personnel can edit any part of the site
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+ * Personnel
+ ** Working on job description for Usability Engineer position
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+ !! Bing Zhu
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
+ * June 7 - June 12: Developed a Perl script, data_uploads.pl, which gets a list of Niche Modeling image files, extract and process metadata for each file from Niche Modeling metadata directory and then upload image files and their metadata into SRB system using SRB's S-commands. The Niche Modeling data was successfully uploaded into SRB with the Perl script. I will work with David Stockwell to integrate Ecogrid grid APIs for data retrieving and metadata querying.
+ * June 14 - June 19: vacation
+ * June 21 - June 26: vacation
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+ !! David Stockwell
+ Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed
+ * We (Haowei and I) have just made available for download a PC version of the WhyWhere software (http://biodi.sdsc.edu/ww_home.html) - datamining for ecological niche models - Son of GARP.
+ * We also, thanks to Bing, put my entire dataset on the SRB. The distribution contains a subset of the data. Now that Bing is back we will be exploring ways to make the larger dataset available to WhyWhere, and will start looking into ways the ecogrid project can be used for this.
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+ !! Dave Thau
+ Completed tasks/bugs fixed
+ * Got Steve's LDAP authenticator working.
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+ Current Work and Bugs
+ * Working on bug #1597 - Now that I've gotten Steve's thing working, it needs to be integrated with the taxon server, and with the LSID system. I've written to the Kansas folks about either helping install that stuff, or providing good directions on how to do so.
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+ Significant issues
+ * I'm taking a month off, starting on Thursday - except for a conference call with the SEEK group, which I'll do whenever it is. I'll be contactable via email intermittently during July, and I'll be back in the swing of things on August 1st.
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