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Taxon Integration Notes Nov 4

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- !!Taxon integration into other SEEK projects
+ !!! Taxon Application Integration session
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+ Discussion session intended to address the integraiton of taxonomic tools with other components of the SEEK architecture.
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- __Want data creators to have impact__
+ __Engage taxonomists/data creators__
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+ * collaborate with well organized group or NSF funded project that is working on it now?
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+ !!Tasks
+ __General__
+ * Get real concept data relevant to larger SEEK context
+ ** BEAM group has identified NA mammals, let's get subset of that - 5 taxa
+ * Need links between APIs and Ecogrid
+ ** Reindex existing datasets - ecological and specimen records, modify EML records
+ ** Query with name for concepts then datasets fro concepts
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+ __Specific Assignments__
+ * Mark Schildhauer: contact Reichman, Willig, and Stevens about mammal concept information
+ * Deana Pennington: better describe the requirements and intention of the mammal niche modeling case study, with assistance of Nico and Dave
+ ** Populate concepts for those taxa
+ ** and identify ecological datasets, markup in EML with Taxonomic Concepts
+ ** Nico will help from Taxonomic perspective
+ ** Dave V. will help from Ecogrid perspective
+ * Identify mechanism/plan for any given scientific study
+ ** Formulate plan
+ ** Walk the experts through the concept creation steps
+ * Create TCS doc for import into SEEK Taxon cache (Nico, Jessie)
+ * historical concepts/relationships
+ * integrate functionality of TOS with Ecogrid
+ ** Incorporate TOS into current data queries
+ ** term expansion in client for now
+ ** smart searching - currently divided into 2 searches, need to integrate SMS and Taxonn searching, Shawn thinks - bring it in locally
+ ** Aggregation node vs individual providers, regularly scheduled updates
+ ** How do we annotate datasets - metadata generation
+ * Modify taxonomic part of EML
+ ** Can use additionalMetadata with no changes to EML tools for experimentation
+ ** Could use simple name/rank/publication composite key with/without LSID
+ ** Using only LSID might be best long-term solution
+ ** Maybe use controlled vocabulary (Smithsonian?)
+ * Modify Morpho tool which is pulling taxonomic names/info from datasets to use TOS for concept matching
+ ** Ecological datasets vs specimen datasets
+ ** How do we interface with ecological dataset creators that don't use Morpho?
+ * How do we use the rich TOS result to query on DiGIR resources with sparsely populated taxonomic information?
+ * Annotate Darwin Core records with proxy - LSIDs for specimen records and Concept LSID
+ * Map between TCS, DarwinCore, EML (Jessie)
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