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Status Report 14 June 2004

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Summary

Collecting individual reports, will summarize on 15 June

Individual reports

Rod Spears

Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:

  • Bug 1594 - Impl revised Resultset XSD for all 3 platforms
  • Spent time thinking about the registry and DiGIR and how DiGIR will need to register multiple times. Each time for a different type of data, thus specifying the portal URL and the Consecptual schema namespace

Current Work and Bugs:

  • Start on Bug 1595 - Create Advance Query Builder UI
    • Initial prototyping to understand what parts of Swing can be used directly and what part may need to be extended. Next I should have a detailed summary

Significant Issues

  • None

Xianhua Liu

Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:

  • Finished design of Auto-Manager: auto-email, auto-assignment and auto-decision
  • Implemented auto-email function

Current Work and Bugs:

  • developing Auto-Manager for Concept Review System to automatically complete some system administration tasks, such as sending emails,assigning proposals to peer-viewers.

Significant Issues

  • None

Sergui Krivov

Completed tasks/bugs fixed

  • developed toolbox pane (no icons yet) and enabled raw visual editing of simple owl constructs
  • wrote a small section of growl paper

Current Work and Bug

  • functions for editing relations and links
    • owl-dl compliance resolution for graphic primitives
  • enable node property editing
  • one more section for growl paper
Significant issues
  • Should we support owl-full? All who responded seems favor support for owl-dl only

Rich WIlliams

Completed tasks/bugs fixed

  • None

Current Work and Bugs

  • Developing an ontology for biodiversity indices, extending existing ontologies to accommodate this, and adding instances for the biodiversity indices and related concepts. This includes a general model for properties computed in terms of other properties.
  • Review/comment on paper that Shawn is lead author on, about the inter-ant parasitism semantic mediation prototype.
  • GrOWL editor: updating of the OWL model when the user edits the displayed graph

3) Significant issues

  • I looked into existing work on the semantics of mathematics, potentially for use when defining quantities in terms of other measured quantities. A useful initiative is www.openmath.org, an emerging standard for representing the semantics of mathematical objects.

Jing Tao

Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:
  • Finished the collaboration and class diagram draft design for bug 1584 and 1586
  • Installed and evaluated both windows and linux SAS as sql engine
  • Resinstalled and tested Metacat ecogrid server in my local machine after Rod changed the code according to the change of resultset

Current Work and Bugs:

  • Continue to find a good sql engine for data query
  • Probably start to code after finding a good sql engine
  • Fix some bugs in ecogrid client after the resultset change

Significant Issues

  • None

Aimee Stewart

Completed tasks/bugs fixed
  • Bug 1602 - Moved the Taxonomic Object Service SOAP service to http://seek.ittc.ku.edu:9080/TaxObjServ . The WSDL is available from the link there (http://seek.ittc.ku.edu:9080/TaxObjServ/services/TaxonomicObjectService?wsdl).

Current Work and Bugs

  • Working on Bug 1576 - Implement EnterProviderData. This includes modifying the architecture somewhat to separate database modification methods from database query methods into separate classes. Also adding a database connection class which will be used by both DB classes.
  • Described (in an email to Seek-Taxon) the difficulties we are encountering with the assumption that a GUID-bearing Taxonomic Concept is defined by the current Taxon Exchange Schema.

Significant issues

  • Taxon Exchange Schema and GUIDs described in seek-taxon email. This may warrant a Seek-Taxon teleconference, preferably by polycom.

Chad Berkley

Completed tasks/bugs fixed
  • Worked on the Kepler poster for SSDBM
  • Worked on nightly build systems for kepler (bug 1588)
  • Began preperation to go to SSDBM

Current Work and Bugs

  • Hopefully get a nightly build system working
  • Leave for Greece

Significant issues

  • none

Nico Franz

Completed Tasks/ Bugs Fixed:

  • None, really.

Current Work and Bugs:

  • Since SEEK Edinburgh, has been writing on a substantial manuscript (with R. Peet as co-author) for the journal Taxon, which deals with concepts and relationships among them.
  • The manuscript is about half-way completed; will take another 2-4 weeks to be ready for internal review.
  • This work is seen as a precursor to the GUID development, i.e. it's trying to answer the question when/what (something) should get a GUID.

Significant Issues

  • There's been a bit of a quiet in SEEK Taxon after the Edinburgh meetings, but apparently that just ended today, with KU sending out an update/request.
  • As the TDWG New Zealand planning is moving ahead, would like to make sure that the concept/relation paper is part of our SEEK Taxon presentation package there.

Other Status Reports

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