Taxon Meeting Feb 2005

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15-17 February 2005

Santa Barbara, California, USA

We are in the small conference room on the second floor (735 State St), and planning to start at 8:30 to 9:00 am

Participants:

Taxonomists: Carl F, Dave, Michael, ? SEEK: Jim Beach, Laura Downey, Nico Franz, Xianhua Liu, Bob Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Martin Graham, Robert Gales, Susan Guach, Aimee Stewart

Tuesday SEEK Group:

Personas

Ronald

Community ecologist
Taxonomic expertise in particular taxa in geographic region
keep track of community
use taxonomic data available to improve classification of community
capture info
datasets persist over time for monitoring and consistency in treatment
data compatible with similar efforts in other geo areas

UI Tools Discussion SeekTaxonTools

V. Concept/Relationship/Status Exploration Tool

View info in TOS in different manners
for deep data capture

II. Batch-Data Import Tool

Wide net
get aggregator data and create LSIDs

TUESDAY AM (Feb 15)

Review and revise agenda

Brief progress reports

Kansas – Beach
Napier – Kennedy `
Kansas – Stewart
Chapel Hill – Peet
Kansas – Gauch

Discussion of usability and design - Downey

TUESDAY PM (Feb 15)

Overview of proposed tools; we have done this before, but only over the phone and not with our usability expert present.

III. Concept/Relationship/Status Exploration Tool

IV. Multi-Classification Visualization Tool (optional)

Discussion Only one concept for a group of similar concepts with different forms of author string, etc, should have an LSID. Algorithms should resolve concepts to longest form.

WEDNESDAY AM (Feb 16)

Proposals for Revision in the TCS/TES – Peet & Kennedy

Interaction with TDWG & LC – Franz & Kennedy

V. Concept/Relationship/Status Creation Tool

II. Batch-Data Import Tool (optional)

WEDNESDAY PM (Feb 16)

Case studies & datasets – Schildhauer & Franz

North American Mammals in general
Bats
North American plants

SEEK perspective; wikipedia approach – Peet

VI. Taxonomic Proposal & Review Tool

VIII. Concept Mark-Up Tool (optional)

THURSDAY AM (Feb 17)

Publications – Kennedy

QRB
BioScience
Others

Institutionalization – Beach

KU & NCEAS
ITIS
USDA
GBIF
Euro-Med

Future Meetings – Beach

Estes Park
TDWG
SEEK – November

Schedule and timelines

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