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Taxon WG Conference Call_22 Feb 2006

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Updates

Bat data
1993 bats missing. Thought we had all MSW, but do not. Should have all data in by end of this week. Import data works - have done ITIS. MSW is unique - needs a little massaging to get in. Think we have another source for 1993 bats data.

Kepler actor
Stub actor is done, but waiting until TOS is fully functioning. Will be only 3 lines of code. New Kepler feature freeze is Feb 28 - Mar, April documentation and testing. May 1 is drop-dead deadline. TOS will be finished long before that. Some confusion about Matt's understanding of our Kepler actor. Will clear that up.

EML
Extending for concepts. Discussed over dinner at GUID meeting. Matt, Jessie and Bob have been emailing about this. Decent progress has been made.

5th International S Ecological Informatics Conference
Abstract deadline Feb28. Aravind has submitted abstract. http://www.isei5-conference.elsevier.com/index.htm. Jessie will contact Bill and see what/how many might be accepted from this group.

All hands meeting
May 1-5. NSF Review will be May 4. Probably 8-9 independent reviewers + NSF officers. Jim proposes that we have 3-4 representatives from Taxon for each sub-group - just need to make the presentation coherent. Stinger agrees that this will address NSF's concern for multiple groups working together rather than one group taking the bulk of the work/responsibility.

ConceptMapper
bats data 1993 and 2005 imported. Xianhua will export and send KU data in TCS (esp. '93). Now is able to infer congruence between concepts if children are the same. Would like outside expert to evaluate his assumptions. Jim will check with Nico to hire bat expert to do this for us. Tool will be used to check this, Laura has a few immediate suggestions, more later, busy with Kepler now though.

Visualization Evaluations
Taxonomists Eval (in NC) went better than Collection Manager Eval. (in KS). Andy B. (Coll Mgr) got back to Martin later - really liked addition of geographic info in online version. ?? Scovill - grant for web based project to develop online consensus taxonomy - will also eval viz tool in exchange for info from Jessie for their project (next Mon).

GUID meeting
Jessie offered SEEK Taxon to be an LSID authority. GBIF now has 6 Java programmers building a Taxon db. Jessie put in proposal to Moore Foundation for documentation and standards, got funding but to do something else working with/for Donald/Roger. Lots of opportunities to collaborate on development.

Next call
Discuss NSF Review presentation.



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