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- Present: Kennedy, Peet, Beach, Stewart, Gales, Jones
- Absent: Vieglais, Gauch, Huddleston, Saarenmaa
- Project Activity Update
- Human Resources, UNC Postdocs, 1/2-time KU Taxon Programmer
- New Objectives, SMS interaction
- Upcoming meetings, Developers' Meeting Santa Barbara, October 22-26, 2003, Edinburgh May 8-15, 2004
- Jessie update on having delivered schema. See http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~osg/seek/s3.html
 for XSD documentation diagram. See 
for a relational equivalent. Please read/discuss before next conference call.
- Aimee and Rob brief update on development work. Problems working with Python at this point. Discussion of whether we should use the same software tools or not. Discussion of system dependencies and being careful about that. Jessie when will we decide about which languages we will use, and what dependencies should we avoid.
- Publication policies, who should be co-authors on which publications. General discussion on that.
- Jessie discussed the Edinburgh meeting E-science agenda, in process with Jesse and Malcolm and SEEK Exec.
- Jessie mentioned that she had discussed with Jerry Cooper, Landcare NZ, the TDWG working group meeting scheduled in Portugal in October. He said there would be a taxon schema transfer standard discussion there on the 22-23rd of October, but agenda details are unclear. Overlap in dates with the SEEK meeting in October.
- Matt Jones: Might be OK, to meet in Portugal, Possibly to come back to Santa Barbara for the last day of the SEEK meeting. Jesse and Bob will try to find out more about the TDWG agenda.
- Status of the schema, should we discuss it in another conference call? It is a strawman for now. If it is the basis for the database schema it will probably be extended quite alot. The SEEK system is not the universal solution for everyone.
- Status of Dave Thau discussions and UNC Postdoc hiring plans.
- It would be useful to come up with a list of deliverables for the SEEK taxon WG for the outyears, deliverables based on use cases would be useful. JK, we need to talk to users and get more feedback from them. The Postdocs might be able to work on uses cases, we also need some good data sets, we need some good marked up EML data sets, need some specifications of queries at the SEEK level that would illustrate what SEEK architecture demands would be on the taxonomic name server. Bob said he had access to a data set with a colleague, postodcs could do that.
- Discussion of a possible Taxon working group meeting in September, week of September 8th.
- Aimee agreed to take a pass over the UseCases started at the January 2003 meeting and work with the KU group on making some links, mappings to a roadmap for the Taxon group. Also here is the developers' DefinitionsAssumptionsAndGeneralArchitecture and PlanOfAttack.
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