Taxon WG Conference Call_14 Mar 2005

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March 14

Present:

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

Agenda and Discussion:

We do not yet know if Kate Jones is available for the pre-meeting.

March 21

Present:

• Robert Gales, Aimee Stewart, Bob Peet, Xianhua Liu, Nico Franz, Jessie Kennedy

Entire taxon group will be in Colorado for May meeting

Kate Jones is available to attend the April 26-27 meeting

(The following reflects edits made by Bob after consultation with Aimee.) Bob wants to invite UNC Herbarium Curator Alan Weakley - author of the "Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia" draft - to the May meeting because he is already treating taxonomic information as concepts and providing relationships among concepts. In short, he represents our still almost nonexistent active user community. You can learn more about Weakley's 875 pp. volume of plant concepts at http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm The fulltext of the 90% that is complete is available at http://herbarium.unc.edu/WeakleysFlora.pdf

An example of his current annotation is: "Ranunculus arvensis Linnaeus, Corn Crowfoot, Hungerweed. Pd (GA, NC, SC), Mt (NC): fields, disturbed areas; rare, introduced from Europe. April-June. = RAB, C, FNA, G, GW, K, X, Y; > R. arvensis var. arvensis – RAB; > R. arvensis var. tuberculatus (Augustin de Candolle) Koch - RAB" (where RAB, FNA, X, Y...are previous treatments).

In short, Weakly is already using SEEK Taxon's terminology (=, <, >) for expressing concept relationships.

Bob and Aimee propose that Alan present early on Monday before hearing our deliberations, that he then listen to our deliberations, and then meet with at least Jessie, Nico, Bob and Xianhua on Wednesday morning to consider design issues for tools that persons mapping concepts and their relationships might need. Specifically, this would apply to tools 2, 3, and 5 on our list http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=SeekTaxonTools. Weakley would need to depart by 1 to catch a flight back to NC that day.