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This document is intended for those involved in planning the Ecoinformatics Booth at ESA 2006 in Memphis, TN in August 2006. It is a work in progress to hold ideas and suggestions and where all planning and logistical issues/decisions will be posted. Comments and feedback are appreciated.
- Aug 15, 2005 - original proposal
- Sep 14, 2005 - Initial planning begun
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- August 2006 - ESA conference, Memphis, TN
- original proposal to SEEK exec staff
- Raise awareness about the ecoinformatics tools we are producing
- Raise awareness of/and provide publicity for projects and organizations involved in developing ecoinformatics tools
- Demo and showcase ecoinformatics tools
- Gather important user feedback on ecoinformatics tools
- Interact with our user community
- demos of ecoinformatics tools
- place to do informal mini-usability testing
- place for users to fill out feedback questionnaires
- securing a booth (Sam has already made the initial inquiries on this and we await word back from the conference committee)
- single booth or double booth?
- can we get a corner booth so we have more wall space?
- number of computers needed?
- number of staff needed to work the booth?
- list of give-aways and prizes needed?
- connectivity and tech support available?
- when/where to ship materials before conference
- tools grouped by function rather than organizations, suggested areas from Matt are:
- Metadata and data acquisition
- Taxonomy and collections management
- Data storage and discovery frameworks
- data integration
- analysis and modeling
- planned/announced times for specific sets of demos
- ad hoc demos
- ad hoc mini-usability tests
- ad hoc feedback opportunities
We can't of course do them all and will have to pare the list and choose a small number to demo and showcase.
- Metadata and data acquisition
- Metacat(and harvester) (KNB, should include OBFS/NRS/ESA and other data registries)
- Metacat advanced query interface (LTER)
- Morpho (KNB)
- EML (KNB with others like ASU, Jones Center, PISCO, etc) and also including LTER Custom Unit Registry
- EML transform utilities (NCEAS/LTER/NBII)
- LTER Metadata Management System (concept) (LTER)
- Jalama handheld data acquisition (NCEAS with PISCO)
- VegBank (NCEAS with UNC/NatureServe, etc)
- Taxonomy and collections management
- Taxonomic Object Service (SEEK)
- Specify (KU)
- DigIR (KU with others)
- Lifemapper (KU)
- Data storage and discovery frameworks
- Ecogrid (SEEK)
- LTER Grid (LTER)
- SRB (SDSC with some support from KNB/SEEK)
- Data integration
- GAMA (SDSC, probably not but maybe)
- whatever tools we develop in KR/SMS specifically for use in data integration, which could be considered independent from other Kepler analysis (DP)
- Analysis and modeling
- Kepler (SEEK with others like GEON, etc)
- GrOWL (SEEK)
- Ontologies (SEEK)
- Sparrow/SMS/Kepler semantics tools (SEEK)
- OPenModeller/GARP (KU with others)
- questionnaires
- set of feedback questions
- set of mini-usability tasks and associated paperwork
- posters for groups/organizations?
- banner or free standing marker for booth?
- publicity materials from various organizations
- give-aways and prizes
- ?run/stage demos to run concurrently with poster sessions when traffic in exhibit hall is higher. Posters are less competition than presentation sessions
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