Status Report 18 October 2004

Summary

• Kepler
• Support for DarwinCore records added to Kepler data search pane
• Ontology-driven search and browsing for actors added to Kepler

• SMS/KR
• Continued to add new features to Growl
• Ontology development - formalizing domain concepts from BEAM San Diego meeting

• Taxon
• TDWG presentation well-received

• EcoGrid
• New registry functions prototyped and implementation started

Individual Reports

Rod Spears

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Bug 1697 - Create a DarwinCore Actor
• Completed task and added the Darwin Core to the search pane
• Added UI to search "all" or just one of the data types; added progressbar, added code so icon on the canvas turn read when loading data.

Serguei Krivov

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• complete support for editing of rdfs:labels
• minor fixes of edit tool panel
• major rearrangement of KRPolicy and GUIPolicy interfases

Current tasks / bugs

• testing and preparing for the second alpha release of growl

Chad Berkley

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Worked with shawn to get the ontology driven dynamic actor library building system working.
• released kepler 1.0.0alpha3

Current tasks / bugs

• Working on debugging the tree rebuilder code so that all actors will be treated equally.
• Need to fix the bug in the simple search that causes it to miss non-entities.

Nico Franz

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• attended TDWG New Zealand; presented paper on taxonomic concept relationships; participated in SEEK-relevant discussions

Current tasks / bugs

• continuing to work on taxonomic concepts-GUID paper

Significant issues

• TDWG paper was very well received - no substantial criticisms. The Berlin Model team (who until now were the leading advocates on these issues) basically conceded that they hadn't considered some of my criticisms and ideas for improvement. I would now like to see these ideas end up in the TCS schema and will argue for that move again in Lawrence.

Rich Williams

Current tasks / bugs

• Ontology development - formalizing domain concepts from BEAM San Diego meeting
• GrOWL - continued bug fixing

Bing Zhu

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• re-designed the gwsdl based on new requirements from Jing and Rod

Current tasks / bugs

• implementation of five operations for Ecogrid registry service. The five operations are addRegistryEntry(), updateRegistryEntry(), deleteRegistryEntry, getAllRegistryServices(), queryRegistryServices().

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