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Ecoinformatics Booth 2006

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Intended audience

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.

Timeline

    • Aug 15, 2005 - original proposal
    • Sep 14, 2005 - Initial planning begun
    • August 2006 - ESA conference, Memphis, TN

Objectives of the Booth

  • 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

What the Booth will Offer

  • demos of ecoinformatics tools
  • place to do informal mini-usability testing
  • place for users to fill out feedback questionnaires

Logistics

  • 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?
  • 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

Organization of Booth

  • 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

Tools to be "potentially" Demo'd (functionally grouped)

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)
  • 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)

Materials Needed

  • 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



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