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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)
New functionality for TOS
  • 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
Dataset markup tools
  • modification of EML taxonomic section
  • allow manual markup of dataset metadata
  • auto markup
Napier
  • tool to define mappings from other dbs to TCS
    • will look at MapForce

SEEK Integration Tasks

  • Find experts, Mark S. will talk to Jim Richman and ?? about bat data
    • Nico - Identify 1-5 taxa to target (with Mark and Deana identifying ecological datasets and markup in EML with Taxonomic Concepts)
      • Pre: Dave Thau will narrow the field by looking at MaNIS for families with lots of georeferencing data (Nov 12 or so) to help identify taxa
      • Pre: Town will help narrow the field with experts
    • Jessie and Trevor will look for taxonomic databases to help identify taxa
    • Populate concepts for those taxa
    • Experts to help map relationships b/w concepts we get (who?)
    • Nico will help from Taxonomic perspective
    • Dave V. will help from Ecogrid perspective

  • Need links between APIs and Ecogrid
    • Reindex existing datasets - ecological and specimen records, modify EML records
    • Query with name for concepts then datasets fro concepts

  • Identify mechanism/plan for any given scientific study
    • Formulate plan
    • Walk the experts through the concept creation steps
  • Create TCS doc for import into SEEK Taxon cache (Nico, Jessie)
  • historical concepts/relationships
  • integrate functionality of TOS with Ecogrid
    • Incorporate TOS into current data queries
    • term expansion in client for now
    • smart searching - currently divided into 2 searches, need to integrate SMS and Taxonn searching, Shawn thinks - bring it in locally
    • Aggregation node vs individual providers, regularly scheduled updates
    • How do we annotate datasets - metadata generation

  • Modify taxonomic part of EML
    • Can use additionalMetadata with no changes to EML tools for experimentation
    • Could use simple name/rank/publication composite key with/without LSID
    • Using only LSID might be best long-term solution

    • Maybe use controlled vocabulary (Smithsonian?)

  • Modify Morpho tool which is pulling taxonomic names/info from datasets to use TOS for concept matching
    • Ecological datasets vs specimen datasets
    • How do we interface with ecological dataset creators that don't use Morpho?
  • How do we use the rich TOS result to query on DiGIR resources with sparsely populated taxonomic information?
  • Annotate Darwin Core records with proxy - LSIDs for specimen records and Concept LSID

  • Map between TCS, DarwinCore, EML (Jessie)



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