All Hands Meeting 2005 Taxon Agenda And Notes

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Tuesday Afternoon

Wednesday Morning

Taxon-Kepler Interaction Design and Engineering Discussion with Dan Higgins

• 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

The 'selection problem' How do users *find* and then *select* the focal concept for searching and parameterizing an actor, with the concept one wants to work with? 1st generation, no interactivity, beyond filling in an Actor parameter file. Rob has wrapped 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 Kepler would be possible.

Problem with names coming out TOS query being mapped to more than once of the concepts specified for DiGIR query for GARP input.

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 way to introduce 'interactivity' for the user to test steps before running the complete workflow.

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, 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)

Wednesday Afternoon

Thursday Morning

Thursday Afternoon

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