Taxon Task List

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Building Blocks

1. Taxonomic Object Service (TOS)

• Fix SOAP server
• Update TOS Object Model (Aimee, Robert G)
• Hibernate / DB relational model (Robert)
• Parser (Aimee)
• Integrate LSID server (Thau, Robert, Aimee)
• Add MSW data with changes over time for immediate use

Improve

• Create API's to receive and output TCS and OWL (Robert, Aimee)
• Create calls to support Kepler
• Modify to support visualization and editing tools
• Add algorithms (Aimee, Robert, experts)

1. Taxonomic Concept Schema (TCS)

• Fix version of TCS for current dev cycle (Trevor, Aimee)
• Name schema for TCS: Meet with Paul Kirk to discuss variation in valid name types and generate an appropriate schema with list of examples (Jessie 2 weeks)
• Map between TCS, DarwinCore, EML (Trevor)

1. Update/Maintain documentation

• Add API calls to WIKI page next to WSDL link, update as needed (Aimee – DONE)
• Create UML diagrams and put on SEEK Taxon wiki pages
• Create javadocs and put on SEEK Taxon wiki pages

Overall Goals

1. Tools: Visualization - Browsing and Editing

• Put issues on wiki (Bob, Nico, Xianhua – 11/22)
• Who are the users of each?
• Use cases for Tools
• What kind of editing tools are needed?
• Should we have seperate browsing/editing tools?
• There should be coordination between the 2 - not different displays for user to view
• How does current work fit in (TCBE, Martin's viz tool)
• look at Napier work/proposal and see if/how they can work together (UNC)

Needs as defined Nov 2004

1. Tool for creating concepts/relationships
• Batch data dump
• User Guide: Walk the experts through the concept creation steps()
2. Tool for viewing concepts/relationships
3. Tool for marking up EML datasets with concepts
• Ecological dataset functionality
• Specimen dataset functionality
• Manual markup tool
• Auto markup tool
4. Tool to define mappings from other dbs to TCS (mapForce?) (Trevor)

1. Integration: TOS with rest of SEEK

• Mammal Use Case
• Longer Term

Publications