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Taxon WG Conference Call_22 Nov 2005

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Update

  • Rob -
    • TAPIR meeting in Spain - concept modelling in TAPIR is flawed. Needs hard coding to handle TCS. (ABCD has no internal/idkey refs). Roger proponent of TAPIR-lite.
    • Modular TCS-parser library for marshalling/unmarshalling TCS document
    • TOS not functioning

  • Aimee
    • Upgraded TOS business, database, SOAP objects to version 1.0.1
    • Moved public server (development)
    • Documented SOAP API's on wiki (TOSAPISignatures)

  • Bob
    • Updated EML document and sent to Taxon list
    • Working with TDWD observation group
    • Xianhua working on his tool
    • Sent rununculus(sp?) data to KU
    • Alan Weakley defending dissertation so should get rest of his data

  • Laura
    • 75% through ConceptMapper hueristic analysis (and looking at task analysis results - to see what was left out). Did not look at nico's review prior to her analysis.
    • Meet and discuss in early Jan
    • Sent emails with review of Martin's tool and documentation (he put together user guide and ?? for his viz tool). Unsure of demo method and audience.
      • Jessie: Martin will remotely drive a demo of tool through Live Meeting or some similar technology. Worked well when Aimee and Martin traded control of the desktop back and forth.
    • Demo with Laura and Jim at UNM, Martin, Jessie in Edinburgh - December sometime. Very high level - maybe 4 or 5 people.
      • Jim will get 3-5 collection managers (preferably 5, including Don).
      • Laura will get training lab.
      • Possible dates - Dec 13, 19, 20?, test run Dec 12.
      • Laura will work on structure of demo, questions to ask
      • Martin will work on demo content

  • Stinger
    • Sent data to Bob
    • Sent county distribution data to Dave V.
      • Jim will find out status of this from Dave.

  • Nico
    • Got comments to Xianhua on ConceptMapper
    • Mammals - bats chapter - 2715 entries, Nico would like to pick 1-2 families for 300 or so entries. Have 1993 bats from Jones, Nancy Simmons(?) 1996 bats. Nico will be data provider and tool tester. Nico has 1993 and 1996 bats data in Excel files
      • ConceptMapper can import from Excel
      • Nico then can then use ConceptMapper to create relationships
      • ConceptMapper then export to TCS

  • Jessie
    • Planning visualization demo
    • Loaded Xianhua's data into viz tool
    • 2 tools
      • one for collection manager
      • one for taxonomists - evaluate with Bob
    • Unhappy with visualization of relationships - will work on

  • Jim
    • What is our current thinking on taxon-focussed training in May?
      • Bob: will the tools be ready?
      • Laura: 1/2 day vision, then ConceptMapper and viz tool demo afternoon
    • One day taxon-vision promotion in conjunction with SPNHC (May 23-27, 2006) workshops on 27th. Or register as a vendor for the entire week.

  • Other meetings
    • GBIF GUID meeting in Feb 1-3
      • Jan 30-31 Taxon submeeting at NESCent? Bob will check on
    • ESA in August
    • Botany 2006, Chico, NM
      • July 28- Aug 3, deadline passed

Deadlines

  • Dec 9, 2005 - Feature freeze for TOS
    • upgraded to TCS v1.01
    • new APIs available
    • Kepler actor completed

  • February, 2006 - TOS stability
    • upgraded to Hibernate 3



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