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Status Report 27 September 2004

Summary

  • 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

Other Status Reports

You can see the status reports for other time periods as well.



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