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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)

      • Shawn Bowers (me)

November 3, 2004

November 4, 2004

NOvember 5, 2004



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