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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?



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This particular version was published on 04-Nov-2004 08:13:31 PST by KU.stewart.