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All Hands Meeting SMS Notes Nov 04

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November 2, 2004

  • 8:30 - 9:00
    • Jim Beach on today's schedule; politics in Kansas primer
    • Guest from NatureServe (Gwynn ...)
    • Mike Frame from USGS
    • Liz Blood from NSF (not here yet ...)
    • NCSA ...
    • New Folks
      • Laura Downey (unm, usability engineer)
      • Jianting Zhang (postdoc, unm)
      • Steve Teckell (seek web-developer)
      • Mark Serilla (LTER, network information system)
  • 9:00 - 12:30
    • Overviews, etc.
      • Matt Jones
        • Kepler
          • Goal is to: create powerful analytical tools that is useful across disciplines; ecology, biology, engineering, geology, physics, ...
          • Model the way scientists work w/ their data now: mentally coordinate export and import of data among software systems
          • Workflows emphasize data flow
          • metadata-driven data ingestion
          • output generation includes creating appropriate metadata
        • Kepler Today
          • EcoGrid support: EML data support; DarwinCore data support; EcoGrid registry to discover data sources
          • Ontology-based browsing
          • Demonstration workflows
            • Ecological niche models
            • Biodiversity analysis tools
        • EcoGrid queries ...
        • EcoGrid: EML Data Access
        • Right-click data box to get EML metadata display
        • Query builder
          • QBE style query
          • Query execution: EML Metadata + Data -> generate DDL to create temp dbs -> HSQL executes data -> result
        • EcoGrid DarwinCore Access
        • Actor Search and Browse: support multiple views (tuned to ecologist) ... switchable at runtime
        • Kepler for Ecological Modeling
        • Biodiversity indices (from Dan)
        • R in Kepler
        • ROADNet Realtime (Revelle ship)
        • Kepler This Year:
          • User Interface ... need a full eval and reworking of all UI for our target group
            • Semantic annotation interface / ontology browsing interfaces
          • Distributed computing / grid computing
            • large jobs; lots of machines; detaiched execution
          • "Smart" data discovery (as for actors)
            • support for data sources that are distributed
          • Actor repository / downloadable actors
          • Integration and transformation using semantics
            • generate required transformation for: data-actor integration; actor-actor integration
            • handle "semantics" for R scripts, etc.
              • file based buffering reduces our ability to reason about the data flow
              • SMB: not exactly sure where the precise problem is here ...
            • Finish EcoGrid Access
              • full EML support
              • support for "large" data and 3rd party transfer
              • more data sources and types of data sources (e.g., JDBC, GEON data)
            • Provenance and metadata propagation
      • Shawn Bowers (me)
      • Jessie Kennedy
        • SEEK Taxon Scenario
        • Goal is to develop the taxon name server
        • High-level approach
          • extract information from taxonomic concept providers; and convert to taxonomy transfer schema (TML)
          • "Semantic Mediation System" used to do concept matching/expansion/weighted concepts; leveraged from EML
          • Most focus on Taxonomy Transfer schema
        • Names versus concepts problems
          • use concepts instead of names .... decouple concepts from names
          • taxon name: label/word/string
            • used for communicating ideas about organisms or groups of organisms ... meaningless without a definition, but it is used as if it has a clear meaning
            • full scientific name: sci name + author abbreviation +date?
              • implies a concept: as intended and documented by the original author of then ame
            • vernacular name: scrub history
          • What is a concept?
            • taxon concept: unique name plus definition
              • full sci. name + "according to" (author + date)
            • Taxon goals
              • define use case; acceess current taxon working practice; design schema for object server; implement prototype; eval globally unique ids and their applicability
            • investigate interface between SMS and taxon group
            • end user tools
          • progress:
            • use cases finished, but still under review
            • taxon working practice: developed a langauge definition, etc ...
          • version 1.01 ... aimee and robert will demo
          • globally unique ids: UUIDs, handle system, DOIs, LSIDs
          • prototype ...
          • interface with sms: session during the week to discuss
          • case study, anticipating north american mammals example

November 3, 2004

November 4, 2004

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