Beam Knowledge Rep Sept 04

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Beam Knowledge Representation Meeting, Sept. 21-23, 2004

Participants

• Mark Schildhauer
• Deana Pennington
• Rich Williams
• Chad Berkley
• Jianting Zhang
• Shawn Bowers
• Kristin Vanderbilt
• Evan Weiher
• David Chalcraft
• Dan Higgins
• Bertram Ludaescher
• Katy Suding
• Steve Cox
• Bob Waide

September 21st

Introductions (8:30-3:45)

Mark presentation on SEEK background

Deana presentation on Biodiversity, etc.

Discussion

- Species traits - Data sets, availability - Integration

Chad / Dan Presented on Kepler

- Much interface discussion - Showed Pred/Prey and Bio index models

Rich Williams on ontologies

- ... organizational and computational kind of thing -- what is necesessary to locate and collate ... - Restricted to certain axis; spatial patterns (naturally occuring gradients); abundance; temporal

- In a particular control plot, how are things changing, and are those changes in the same trajectory (in the same gradient change)?

- Ton of data in range management

- Q: Are most of these datasets freely available on the web; are people sharing them? A: Few available on web ... Q: But is it possible to get them? A: It is a very divergent / diverse community. Q: W

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