Development Tasks Nov 2004

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What are our software development priorities?

Finish/improve current work on TOS

• update object model
• finish the parser
• use Hibernate for database abstraction
• add MSW data, changes over time, in TCS format
• make SOAP server more robust (1 week max)

• API's to receive and output TCS and OWL
• Kepler actor?
• Integrate LSID server into Visualization Browsing and Editing Tools
• Browser within 6 mos
• Editing within 9 months?
• What kind of editing tools are needed?
• single concept
• batch addition, editing
• Should we have seperate tools? There should be coordination between the 2 - not different displays for user to view
• How does current work fit in?
• Xianhua's TaCBE tool, browsing and editing - where does this fit in?
• Napier's (Martin) visualization tool for tree comparison - doesn't edit

• modification of EML taxonomic section
• allow manual markup of dataset metadata
• auto markup

• tool to define mappings from other dbs to TCS
• will look at MapForce