Status Report 27 September 2004

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Summary

• EOT
• {BEAM Meeting |20040921MeetingAgenda]
• upcoming KNB and RCN Training

• KR/SMS group
• More editing enhancements to Growl

• Taxon group
• Continued work on the Taxonomic Concept editor application
• Preparing for TDWG meeting presentations
• LSID authority working with launchpad

• Kepler group
• Re-classification of Kepler actor library
• Extending ontology search in Kepler

• EcoGrid group
• Working on EcoGrid Web Interface for metadata based EcoGrid queries and as well as similar functionality using Metacat Pathquery (for LTER).

Individual Reports

Samantha Romanello

Current tasks / bugs

• KNB workshop
• RCN workshop
• presentation for AAG

dave thau

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• lsid authority now works with launchpad

Current tasks / bugs

• finish making metadata more like napier schema
• work on TDWG LSID talk
• work on TDWG OWL talk
• make sure DNS tweaks at Kansas happen

Deana Pennington

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Ran biodiversity working meeting in San Diego

Current tasks / bugs

• Constructing concept maps from Rich's ontologies
• Working on Kepler presentation/paper for GIS community
• Uploading ENM data to SRB
• Will document representative ENM data in Morpho this week

Liu Xianhua

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Editing function of data proxy
• Updating changes of existing concepts/relationships
• Deleting concepts/relationships

Current tasks / bugs

• Editing function of data proxy
• Adding new concepts/relationships

Shawn Bowers

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• BEAM KR/SMS Working Group
• See preliminary notes (more coming soon) BEAM Sept 2004_BeamKnowledgeRepSept04?
• Finished preliminary actor-based ontology search (really done in the prior week)

Current tasks / bugs

• Finishing up formalizing a general-purpose annotation language
• Mainly focussing on a generalized data model
• Also on the desiderata and how realized
• Extending the ontology-search in kepler
• More work needed on the file infrastructure in Kepler
• Need to understand broadly how this might work for annotations at least
• Would like to look into the existing EML tools for accessing data via structural metadata

Chad Berkley

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Came up with a preliminary re-classification of the kepler actor library. It is currently being reviewed and will hopefully be implemented by the 10/15 release.
• Attended the BEAM working group meeting in San Diego.

Current tasks / bugs

• Working on completing the ontological search capabilities in kepler.

Aimee Stewart

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• Meetings with Nico to discuss Use Cases/APIs and a few implementation issues

Current tasks / bugs

• Completing presentation for TDWG
• add more data to current database

Steve Tekell

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• SEEK Wiki Web App
• changed bgcolor of edit page to white (now in CVS, not PROD)
• Metacat PathQuery Web App
• first pass of integrating the EcoGrid Web input GUI with Duane's current PathQuery code - works but returns just raw XML results

Current tasks / bugs

• EcoGrid Client - Web Interface
• have functional but not feature complete web UI
• have functional but not feature complete query builder for metacat
• this week work on make the above more feature complete and integrate the pieces to display at least some raw results in the webapp.

Significant issues

• Current performance of Metacat queries (using EcoGrid) is too slow to be usable.

Serguei Krivov

Completed tasks / bugs fixed

• new rendering for isa and subclass arrows
• editin support for the new rendering scheme

Current tasks / bugs

• fixing bugs in esd applet

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