Status Report 25 October 2004

Summary

• Kepler
• Kepler 1.0.0alpha3 released on web site, includes a lot of new functionality, including the beginnings of ontology-driven searching for actors, and EcoGrid enhancements
• Refactored the ENM pipeline to be more tractable for the December BEAM meeting

• EcoGrid
• Further improvements to the Registry implementation

Individual Reports

Dan Higgins

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Installers for the alpha3 release of Kepler were prepared and linked to the distribution page of the Kepler website. Ths Alpha3 version is basically a 'snapshot' of the development version of Kepler as of Oct 15, 2004
• The full Environmental Niche Model (ENM/GARP) Kepler workflow was reviewed and a series of tasks (corresponding to actors) were desrcibed as Bugzilla tasks (under the SEEK Bugzilla list).

Xianhua

Current tasks / bugs

• Preparing for all-hands meeting

Jing Tao

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Ecogrid Registry search interface for kepler

Current tasks / bugs

• polish the ecogrid data search function and ecogrid services.

dave thau

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• gave two talks at tdwg
• miscellaneous small tweaks to lsid server

Bing Zhu

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• finished the implementation of Ecogrid's registry service

Current tasks / bugs

• review and test of current Ecogrid services: query, put, authentication and registry.
• look into the feasibility of adopting GSI within Ecogrid service if time permits.

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