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Taxon WG Conference Call_14 Jan 2004

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- Present:
- Jim Beach, Robert Gales, Aimee Stewart, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy, Trevor Patterson, Susan Gauch, Laura Downey
+ ! Present:
+ * Jim Beach, Robert Gales, Aimee Stewart, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy, Trevor Patterson, Susan Gauch, Laura Downey
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- Agenda and Discussion:
- Planning for the February 15-17 Santa Barbara Meeting:
- Downey and Beach led off with a review of planning to date for the SB meeting which will focus on usability issues associated with SEEK-TAXON data provider community. Considerable discussion about the aimes and objectives of usability analysis Laura reviewed some of standard approaches and discussed the importance of obtaining a firm grounding in understanding the tasks and problems of users.
+ ! Agenda and Discussion:
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- Beach mentioned plans to invite 3-5 active taxonomists to the meeting, there was also discussion about the advisability to invite people from other communitiesm, such as data aggegrators, but the majority thought it best to wait.
+ * Planning for the February 15-17 Santa Barbara Meeting:
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+ * Downey and Beach led off with a review of planning to date for the SB meeting which will focus on usability issues associated with SEEK-TAXON data provider community. Considerable discussion about the aimes and objectives of usability analysis Laura reviewed some of standard approaches and discussed the importance of obtaining a firm grounding in understanding the tasks and problems of users.
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+ * Beach mentioned plans to invite 3-5 active taxonomists to the meeting, there was also discussion about the advisability to invite people from other communitiesm, such as data aggegrators, but the majority thought it best to wait.
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- Progress Update:
- Thau:
- Has departed SEEK for summer pastures and grad school in the Fall
+ ! Progress Update:
+ * Thau:
+ ** Has departed SEEK for summer pastures and grad school in the Fall
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+ * Nico:
+ ** Waiting to make contact with mammal taxonomists, constrained by a lack of a use case scenario for the BEAM mammals project. He will contact Mark Schildhauer and Deanna Pennington again and e-mail communications to the group.
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- Nico:
- Waiting to make contact with mammal taxonomists, constrained by a lack of a use case scenario for the BEAM mammals project. He will contact Mark Schildhauer and Deanna Pennington again and e-mail communications to the group.
+ * Bob:
+ ** transferring plant concepts into Excel and from there will put them into TCS soon
+ ** will send data in TCS format to KU in January
+ ** teleconferncing with Jessie about semantics of some element of the TCS
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+ * Xinhua:
+ ** put some sample concept data up on the SEEK-Taxon wiki
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- Bob:
- transferring plant concepts into Excel and from there will put them into TCS soon
- will send data in TCS format to KU in January
- teleconferncing with Jessie about semantics of some element of the TCS
+ * Susan:
+ ** Joanna (her graduate student) has left KU for Canada but promises a final version of the 4 OWL representations of the TCS.
+ ** Replacing Joanna will wait until after the February meeting
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- Xinhua:
- put some sample concept data up on the SEEK-Taxon wiki
+ * Trevor:
+ ** Trevor is leaving Napier mid Feb 2005 to work with Dolly the cloned sheep, in the meantime working on acquiring mammals data and on various TCS issues.
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- Susan:
- Joanna (her graduate student) has left KU for Canada but promises a final version of the 4 OWL representations of the TCS.
- Replacing Joanna will wait until after the February meeting
+ * Aimee:
+ ** Adding Hibernate to mix to create a generalized interface to the database
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- Trevor:
- Trevor is leaving Napier mid Feb 2005 to work with Dolly the cloned sheep, in the meantime working on acquiring mammals data and on various TCS issues.
+ * Robert:
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- Aimee:
- Adding Hibernate to mix to create a generalized interface to the database
+ * Jim:
+ ** Planning February meeting agenda, identifying and inviting guests
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- Robert:
+ ! February SEEK-Taxon meeting, February 15-17, NCEAS, Santa Barbara
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- Jim:
- Planning February meeting agenda, identifying and inviting guests
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- February meeting, February 15-17, NCEAS, Santa Barbara
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