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Taxon WG Conference Call_22 Nov 2005

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- ** Modular TCS-parser library for marshalling/unmarshalling TCS document
+ ** Working on modular TCS-parser library for marshalling/unmarshalling TCS document
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- ** Updated EML document and sent to Taxon list
- ** Working with TDWD observation group
- ** Xianhua working on his tool
- ** Sent rununculus(sp?) data to KU
- ** Alan Weakley defending dissertation so should get rest of his data
+ ** Updated EML document pertaining to documentation of identifications and sent to Taxon list
+ ** Working with TDWD observation group with particular emphasis on compatability
+ ** Xianhua is continuing to work on his concept mapping tool
+ ** Sent Ranunculus concept data to KU in TCS format
+ ** Alan Weakley will defend his dissertation Dec 1. This will define completion of the set of 44351 pair-wise relationships where he has mapped 11 major floras covering the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia onto the 6316 taxa that he recognizes in his flora
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- ** 75% through ConceptMapper hueristic analysis (and looking at task analysis results - to see what was left out). Did not look at nico's review prior to her analysis.
+ ** 75% through ConceptMapper heuristic analysis (and looking at task analysis results - to see what was left out). Did not look at nico's review prior to her analysis.
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- ** Sent data to Bob
+ ** Sent data to Bob, and Bob acknowledged receipt
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- ** Mammals - bats chapter - 2715 entries, Nico would like to pick 1-2 families for 300 or so entries. Have 1993 bats from Jones, Nancy Simmons(?) 1996 bats. Nico will be data provider and tool tester. Nico has 1993 and 1996 bats data in Excel files
- *** ConceptMapper can import from Excel
- *** Nico then can then use ConceptMapper to create relationships
- *** ConceptMapper then export to TCS
+ ** Mammals - bats chapter - 2715 entries, Nico would like to pick 1-2 families for 400 or so entries. We have the 1993 MSW data from Kate Jones, and the 2005 bat data from Nancy Simmons. Nico has now forwarded these data to Xianhua and Jessie for representation in TCS XML and also in the ConceptMapper. Once the data are displayed in the tool Nico will provide the concept relationships.
+ *** ConceptMapper then export to TCS for further work and showing to experts/potential tool testers and users.
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- ** What is our current thinking on taxon-focussed training in May. One day taxon-vision promotion in conjunction with SPNHC (May 23-27, 2006) workshops on 27th.
- ** Bob: will the tools be ready?
- ** Laura: 1/2 day vision, then ConceptMapper and viz tool demo afternoon
+ ** What is our current thinking on taxon-focussed training in May?
+ *** Bob: will the tools be ready?
+ *** Laura: 1/2 day vision, then ConceptMapper and viz tool demo afternoon
+ ** SPNHC (May 23-27, 2006) - One day taxon-vision promotion in conjunction with workshops on 27th. Or register as a vendor for the entire week. Decision - probably won't have tools/people ready.
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+ * Other meetings
+ ** GBIF GUID meeting in Feb 1-3 (Jessie, Bob, others?)
+ *** Jan 30-31 Taxon submeeting Durham or Chapel Hill? Bob will check on meeting at NESCent. Discuss GUID positions (Note: NESCent subsequently agreed to host the meeting.)
+ *** Jessie asked whether SEEK-Taxon should develop a position as to a preferred outcome for the GUID meeting. Bob agreed that this would be desirable. (IN subsequent emails it was agreed that this will be taken up during the conference call on January 5.)
+ ** ESA in August
+ *** will have booth, do we want workshop too?
+ *** who will be there? Bob, Nico, Kepler people
+ *** Laura will check with Matt - will he organize Contributed Papers session, if not, should SEEK Taxon organize it.
+ ** BSA (Botany) 2006, Chico, NM
+ *** July 28- Aug 3, deadline passed
+ ** Meet during SEEK developers meeting April 30 - May 5
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- * GBIF GUID meeting in Feb 1-3
- ** Jan 30-31 Taxon submeeting at NESCent? Bob will check on
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+ !! Tasks from discussion
+ * Laura
+ ** Check with Matt - will he organize Contributed Papers session for ESA
+ ** Training lab for Viz Tool demo
+ ** Work on structure of Viz Tool demo, questions to ask
+ * Bob
+ ** will get rest of Alan Weakley's data. (Note: Bob has the spreadsheet with 44,251 relationships. However, he has discovered that the mapping applies only to the tips of the phylogenetic tree. Consequently, if Fernald recognized varieties and Weakley did not, then there is no mapping of species-to-species relationships. Bob will work with Xianhua in an effort to develop an algorithm to automatically fill in the missing relationships.)
+ * Martin
+ ** Viz Tool demo content
+ * Jim
+ ** will get 3-5 collection managers (preferably 5, including Don) for Viz Tool demo
+ ** find out status of Stinger's county data from Dave
+ * Jessie
+ ** working on visualization of relationships
+ * Rob and Aimee
+ ** Make TOS server publicly available
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- !! Deadlines
+ !! Upcoming
+ * Viz Tool demo December sometime (Laura, Jim, Martin, Jessie)
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+ * Laura, Xianhua, and others will meet and discuss ConceptMapper analysis in early Jan
+ * Next conference call - Jan 5, 2006, [16:00 GMT | http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=5&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=0]

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