Taxon WG Conference Call_30 May 2006

Present: Laura Downey, Bob Peet, Jessie Kennedy, Rob Gales, Martin Graham, Paul Craig, Aimee Stewart, Jim out with flu, Stinger is traveling

Bob

nothing to report, what is his role at site review?

Xianhua

corrected Ranunculus TCS doc and changed ConceptMapper to improve valid TCS

Jessie

went to WWW conference, working with Rob G., TDWG core ontology meeting, will speak at meeting in August(databases for paleobotanists), hired Paul Craig to do some viz work

Martin

gave paper at AVI conference in Venice

Rob

went to Edinburgh, implementation of core ontology, updated LSID resolution server code, must resolve DNS issues, Digir names not showing up in ENM workflow

Paul

just started, viz PhD student, character data - Alan's tool?

Aimee

poster and presentation improvement, Kepler demo - trouble on laptop, BG meeting

Laura

will have SEEK booth at ESA, Sam and Laura will (wo)man booth, what kind of presence does Taxon want there?, canned demo for TaxViz (or all demos) - screen recording - can annotate with text and voice, posters?, Laura will do questionaire or survey - what do we want to know for our tools?

Jim

what's the bat data status?

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June 14, 16:00 GMT