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  • Way to filter for UNPUBLISHED data in the TOS for particular user/editor community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

User information

  • ITIS is not useful, concept and how it was developed is wrong
    • currently looking at data just at face value, names only
    • looking at old data, changes over tiime
  • Sharing, integration of data, names, is that 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
  • Need a collaborative tool to look at differences of opinion over time - literature, images, type specimens
  • Don't care to document geographic and typological? changes of concepts over time - provide the references for those who are interested in this. Perhaps JK is overestimating the importance of this historical information
  • Paradox - want all the info, synonymies, etc available, but also want a single, simple list
  • Who is going to populate this database?
    • Bob - start fresh, with new info (ask about his point here)
  • don't give too much authority to "online", this data is transient, don't confuse with archived data
  • Dan - revisions of his species are just reshuffling, table of valid species, maintain separate family, genus, species, Fritz Haas and Simpson, http://mussel-project.net, valid species assoc with an author, attached to nomen,
  • Paul would like our tools to not only handle quagmire of legacy data, but help us go forward


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



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