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| - !!! 15-17 February 2005 |
| - Santa Barbara, California, USA |
| + !!! 15-17 February 2005, Santa Barbara, California, USA (Rain!) |
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| - __We are in the small conference room on the second floor (735 State St), and planning to start at 8:30 to 9:00 am__ |
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| - Taxonomists: |
| - Carl F, Dave, Michael, ? |
| - SEEK: |
| - Jim Beach, Laura Downey, Nico Franz, Xianhua Liu, Bob Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Martin Graham, Robert Gales, Susan Gauch, Aimee Stewart |
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| - Tuesday SEEK Group: |
| - !! UI Tools / Function Discussion / [SeekTaxonTools] |
| - ! TCS creation function |
| - * create TCS from user input data |
| - ! Import function |
| - * interactive function for viewing existing matching concepts and decision making |
| - ! Visualization Function (Concept/Relationship/Status Exploration) |
| - * View and edit info in TOS in different manners |
| - ! Multi-classification Visualization function |
| - * could see multiple matching concepts from a query within and between their contexts |
| - ! EML taxonomic data creation - function to create whatever EML group decides upon |
| - * plugin to Morpho |
| - ! Other Schema to TCS mapping |
| - * XSLT transform? |
| - ! Merge datasets (later) |
| - * need input from SEEK |
| - * unified concepts for 2 datasets containing taxa that can be analyzed together |
| - * important, but later, many issues |
| - ! Peer Review function (low priority) |
| - * Way to filter for UNPUBLISHED data in the TOS for particular user/editor community |
| - * Use visualization function |
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| + ! Systematist Users: |
| + * Carl Ferraris (Oregon) All catfish species project, systematist |
| + * Dan Graf (Acad Nat Sci, Philadelphia) fresh water bivalves, systematist |
| + * Mike Caterino (SBNHM, California beetles) (Ronaldo Persona!), systematist |
| + * Paul Valentich Scott (SBNHM, marine bivalves), systematist |
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| + The four systematists were interviewed by Usability Engineer Laura Downey and Jim Beach on 15 Feb, and the results of those interviews were presented to the group on 16 Feb. The results are not attached here to protect the privacy of the interviewees, but were disseminated by e-mail to SEEK-Taxon members present at the meeting. |
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| + ! SEEK Taxon Group |
| + * Jim Beach, Nico Franz, Xianhua Liu, Bob Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Martin Graham, Robert Gales, Susan Gauch, Aimee Stewart, with Laura Downey, SEEK Usability Engineer |
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| + !! [TaxonFunctionsAndUsability] |
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| + !! [CaseStudiesAndSMSIntegration] |
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| + !! [DeveloperConventions] |
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| + !! Summary of Meeting Discussion |
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| + Application software development work on the four identified priority functions will proceed based on the findings of the usability analysis led by Laura Downey culiminating in a task analysis with Kate Jones in April. The results of the analysis will be presented at the May meeting in Estes Park, where prototype design will be discussed and software development objectives will be formulated. April 26/27 meeting will produce user interface requirements, then need scoping from developers |
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| + GUI applications developed within SEEK-Taxon must be designed to work with the web APIs of the SEEK-Taxon Taxonomic Object Server. |
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| + * Laura Downey will: |
| + ** advise on the materials needed for the April 26 meeting with Kate Jones to undertake a task analysis of her taxonomic concept management practices. |
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| + * Aimee/Robert will: |
| + ** work on fixing the link from the LSID server to the TOS. |
| + ** finish installation of Hibernate to map data objects to relational database design for the TOS, |
| + ** will work on getting more data into the system as data is provided to them from Nico and Xinhua. |
| + ** Aimee will attend the SMS meeting in Davis as an advance party to divine the potential interaction between the Taxon and SMS working groups. Aimee and Rob's recent phone call with Shawn at UC Davis, concluded that SMS viewed Taxon as just another Ecogrid service for concept resolution, and that the SEEK-Taxon database approach would handle the queries and operations that a Kepler Actor would seek to execute. |
| + ** Send out links to TOS demo soon, when all working together |
| + ** Open dialogs with SMS (include Matt)in preparation for the May meeting with them. |
| + ** Rob will work with Xquark to make mappings between xml schemas and relational databases, so that xml documents can be put in without parsing. He will try to get that promising technology to work for one week, then move on. |
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| + * Nico will: |
| + ** Nico will develop a primer that will explain to a professional taxonomist what SEEK Taxon's perspective is on managing and mapping published taxonomic concepts. This will be shown to Kate prior to the task analysis on April 26/27. |
| + ** Contact Kate Jones, verify her availability and willingness for April 26 task analysis |
| + ** Clarify with Bob and Jessie remaining issues about TCS, LC, EML |
| + ** Provide Martin and Aimee with select weevil classifications |
| + ** Collaborate with Xianhua in finding high quality concepts online to scrape. |
| + ** Stand by for additional requests |
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| + * Xianhua will: |
| + ** work on getting data from the literature from flora North America and any of the other things from the e-floras page. |
| + ** Susan will send him some generic code for scraping web pages for data |
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| + * Martin will: |
| + ** Get data from Dan Graf and put his concept data into their classification vizualization tool to assess effectiveness of the same. |
| + ** Create some prototypes for relating concepts |
| + ** Create protype for museum people to view their taxonomies |
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| + * Next Teleconferences on 14 March, 15:30 UTC and 19 April, 16:00 UTC |
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| - !! Misc Discussion |
| + !! Misc Notes |
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| + * What is the User Interface of taxonomic resolution through Kepler |
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| - !! Personas |
| - ! Ronald |
| - * Community ecologist |
| - * Taxonomic expertise in particular taxa in geographic region |
| - * keep track of community |
| - * use taxonomic data available to improve classification of community |
| - * capture info |
| - * datasets persist over time for monitoring and consistency in treatment |
| - * data compatible with similar efforts in other geo areas |
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| - !!Other proposed topics |
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| - ! TUESDAY (Feb 15) |
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| - * Brief progress reports |
| - ** Kansas – Beach |
| - ** Napier – Kennedy |
| - ** Kansas – Stewart |
| - ** Chapel Hill – Peet |
| - ** Kansas – Gauch |
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| - * Discussion of usability and design - Downey |
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| - * Overview of proposed tools; we have done this before, but only over the phone and not with our usability expert present. |
| - * III. Concept/Relationship/Status Exploration Tool |
| - * IV. Multi-Classification Visualization Tool (optional) |
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| - * Proposals for Revision in the TCS/TES – Peet & Kennedy |
| - * Interaction with TDWG & LC – Franz & Kennedy |
| - * V. Concept/Relationship/Status Creation Tool |
| - * II. Batch-Data Import Tool (optional) |
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| - * Case studies & datasets – Schildhauer & Franz |
| - ** North American Mammals in general |
| - ** Bats |
| - ** North American plants |
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| - * SEEK perspective; wikipedia approach – Peet |
| - * VI. Taxonomic Proposal & Review Tool |
| - * VIII. Concept Mark-Up Tool (optional) |
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| - * Publications – Kennedy |
| - ** QRB |
| - ** BioScience |
| - ** Others |
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| - * Institutionalization – Beach |
| - ** KU & NCEAS |
| - ** ITIS |
| - ** USDA |
| - ** GBIF |
| - ** Euro-Med |
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| - * Future Meetings – Beach |
| - ** Estes Park |
| - ** TDWG |
| - ** SEEK – November |
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| - * Schedule and timelines |
