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

TaxonFunctionsAndUsability

CaseStudiesAndSMSIntegration

DeveloperConventions

Task List

• Cleanup tasks for Robert/Aimee
• Xianhua will:
• look into scraping websites for data - Susan will send some generic code
• Martin will:
• Get data from Dan Graf and input into visualization tools
• Create some prototypes for relating concepts
• Create protype for museum people to view their taxonomies
• Aimee/Robert will:
• Send out links to demo soon, when all working together
• Import data as given to us (use XQuark?)
• Open dialogs with SMS (include Matt)
• Link concepts to literature using them (long range)
• Nico will:
• Help design primer for Kate Jones
• Clarify with Bob and Jessie remaining issues about TCS, LC, EML
• Provide Martin and Aimee with select weevil classifications
• Collaborate with Xianhua in finding high quality concepts online
• Stand by for additional requests
• April 26/27 meeting will produce user interface requirements, then need scoping from developers
• Aimee will attend KR/Beam/SMS meeting at UC Davis and report back?
• Teleconferences on 14 March, 15:30 UTC and 19 April, 16:00 UTC

Misc Notes

• 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.
• What is the User Interface of taxonomic resolution through Kepler

Other proposed topics

TUESDAY (Feb 15)

• Discussion of usability and design - Downey

• Proposals for Revision in the TCS/TES – Peet & Kennedy
• Interaction with TDWG & LC – Franz & Kennedy

• SEEK perspective; wikipedia approach – Peet

• 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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