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

November 3, 2004

November 4, 2004

NOvember 5, 2004