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All Hands Meeting 2005 Taxon Agenda And Notes

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Tuesday Afternoon

Wednesday Morning

Kepler-Taxon work flow discussion integration of DiGIR and Kepler in two SEEK use case work flows

  • Responsibilities of TOS versus those of Kepler
  • Need for user interaction
  • Usage scenarios for TOS within Kepler

    • High-level Taxon-Kepler Interaction Design and Engineering Issues with Dan Higgins

      • The 'selection problem' How do users *find* and then *select* the focal concept for searching, parameterizing an actor, with the concept one wants to work with. 1st generation, little interactivity, fill in a Kepler parameter file.

Wrap Robs current work flow into a custom actor, interactivity would come later, and maybe then passing parameter files to the actor from an application outside of GARP.

          • Problem with names being mapped to more than once concept for GARP work flow

          • Merging data sets with concepts that overlap, how do we integrate them once they come back

          • Looping issue in GARP usecase workflow: going through list of concepts to find synonyms to identify overlaps (names with 2 or more concepts), Gales & Jones, Action: make a custom TOS actor instead of modifying web services actor (which came from GEON)

          • SEEK-Taxon would like to see more possibility for an interactive UI within Kepler for TOS query and selection tasks. Alternative is to stop, restart and repeat short workflows as the 'interactivity'

      • SEEK Use Case #2 need a taxon concept merging tool. SMS is working on merging other types of parameters across site data sets. (Get a list of species from LTER data sets, assume they are in EML, input to TOS GetBestConcept?, output unique list of merged names,

        • Must mark up taxon names as concepts with GUIDs in the EML data sets first, GUIDs would be the concept IDs. Need a tool to do that, Morpho is the likely app. If no GUID in the data set, a call to TOS could match on data set taxon name and a taxon reference.

        • Kepler work flow scenario: Kepler has Actors that can actually merge the data, need some user interaction with TOS to decide which level of lumping the user wants, include synonyms, concept overlaps, go up a level, etc.

          • if the GUIDs match between data sets, we merge
          • if the names from two data sets match (derived from GUIDs in the date set) in TOS, we combine them
          • if concepts match in TOS (other TOS operations)

and how to identify concepts that match user's query concept 'expectation', (e.g. query TOS, return concepts to Kepler, do a EcoGrid query). How to build a UI that is meaningful to users for such tasks.

Wednesday Afternoon

Thursday Morning

Thursday Afternoon


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