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:

UI Tools / Function Discussion / SeekTaxonTools

TCS creation function

create TCS from user input data

Import function

interactive function for viewing existing matching concepts and decision making

Visualization Function (Concept/Relationship/Status Exploration)

View and edit info in TOS in different manners

EML taxonomic data creation - function to create whatever EML group decides upon

plugin to Morpho

Merge datasets (later)

need input from SEEK
unified concepts for 2 datasets containing taxa that can be analyzed together
important, but later, many issues

Peer Review function (low priority)

Way to filter for UNPUBLISHED data in the TOS for particular user/editor community
Use visualization function

Misc 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.

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