Taxon Meeting Feb 2005

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15-17 February 2005, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Participants:

Taxonomists/Users:

• Carl Ferrarres (all catfish species project, systematist)
• Dan Graff (Philadelphia) bivalves, systematics
• Mike Catarino (SB, California beetles) (Ronald persona)
• nomenclature, phylogeographic,
• Paul Valence Scott (Santa Barbara, marine bivalves)

SEEK Taxon Group

• Jim Beach, Laura Downey, Nico Franz, Xianhua Liu, Bob Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Martin Graham, Robert Gales, Susan Gauch, Aimee Stewart

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 (Small scale)

• View and edit info in TOS in different manners

Multi-classification Visualization function (Large scale down to small)

• could see multiple matching concepts from a query within their contexts

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

• plugin to Morpho

Other Schema to TCS mapping

• XSLT transform?

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• Way to filter for UNPUBLISHED data in the TOS for particular user/editor community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

Questions of users

• Mike
• ITIS is not useful
• looking at data just at face value, names only
• looking at 100-yr-old data, changes over tiime
• Sharing, integration of data, names, is that a problem?
• A problem??! yes, it's our job
• If can determine relationships b/w different uses of a name, will correct
• Distinguish between nomenclature and usage
• JK - how do you separate names vs meaning?
• lots of times concepts introduced in papers, with no name attached
• a name with no author string can be assumed to be the original concept
• poorly annotated names cannot be resolved - won't bother

Other proposed topics

TUESDAY (Feb 15)

• Brief progress reports
• Kansas – Beach
• Napier – Kennedy
• Kansas – Stewart
• Chapel Hill – Peet
• Kansas – Gauch

• Discussion of usability and design - Downey

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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