Taxon Integration Notes Nov 4

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Taxon integration into other SEEK projects

Need to change EML to handle taxon concepts

• GCE is only institution with taxonomic coverage info in EML docs
• Morpho needs to handle taxonomic markup

nice use case for Kepler - interactive decision making, expand concepts, relationships

Matt: good to have loop version that will resolve a list of taxa

Bertram: need to talk to Ilkay about the wsdl harvester and how it can work with TOS

data integration

• map b/w 2 ecological datasets - must make value judgements on match b/w taxa within
• data integration in Kepler - provide the mapping so scientists can match datasets
• how does that relate to addRelationship
• must keep those 2 separate - use taxon output vs add content to SEEK cache
• do we want to store some of these decisions made during data integration?
• may want to share synthesis decisions by a working group of scientists so that others can use or discard those opinions

BEAM: what are the taxa that have changed a lot and would be useful for use case

• interesting ecological problem
• abundance/ whatever data with spatial, temporal range
• mammals is nice small group, name mapping issue is clear
• 2 issues
• name expansion
• misspelling problems

Use case

• NA mammal niche modeling (can get data with DiGIR query)
• pick top 5 taxa to model
• run mammal modeling with and without taxon service/ concept matching
• need a mammals expert to evaluate results
• western grasses concept data?
• big societal impact
• Vegbank should be getting data soon?

Engage taxonomists/data creators

• encourage addition of concepts/relationships
• catfish project?
• increase use case understanding
• Kepler functions here?
• collaborate with well organized group or NSF funded project that is working on it now?