EML Issues

[David Blankman]

Peter and Matt,

In about two or three weeks I will have time to devote to working on the 
unitDictionary.I have just started a full-time job and am finishing up 
some activities connected with the sale of a family business.I should be 
finished with the family business mastters in a few weeks.

I would like to partner with someone who is an active LTER IM. Linda 
Powell is a good suggestion. Wade Sheldon is another. I don't know 
Margaret O'Brien, but if Peter recommends her, then I am sure that she 
would be good.


David Blankman


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:49:38 -0700, Peter McCartney 
<peter.mccartney at asu.edu> wrote:
 > I don't think there would be any difficulty recruiting a new member to
 > EML dev from the LTER community that would take this task on if there is
 > currently no one doing it now. I just wanted to check first. There are
 > several good candidates, draw from those that have expressed interest in
 > this issue - Margaret OBrien who has actually posted to bugzilla, linda
 > Powell, and probably others. We will hold the workshop on this in
 > Montreal and will plan to identify someone to handle this. there are
 > resources to bring someone from NCEAS if appropriate.
 >
 > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:23 -0900, Matt Jones wrote:
 > > Hey Peter,
 > >
 > > I'm starting to surface again after a bout of grant-writing. Sorry for
 > > the delay.
 > >
 > > I think the working group for units is a great idea.  The current unit
 > > dictionary is good, but it lacks consistency and I believe it still has
 > > numerous errors.  Critically reviewing it, revising it, and adding as
 > > many new units as we can discover would be a great thing.
 > >
 > > I can try to get someone from SEEK to follow through with the 
changes to
 > > the unit dictionary if the set of changes needed was clear.   It might
 > > take a bit to find enough time, but we'll get it done eventually.  It
 > > would be a good activity for the SEEK postdoc from the KR group who is
 > > developing ontologies, but since Rich Williams left that position is
 > > vacant. Maybe the position will be full by the Montreal meeting (if I
 > > get my act together and recruit!)  But if there were a volunteer from
 > > the LTER community who wanted to compile the changes into the STMML
 > > format of the unitDictionary and integrate it, that would be more than
 > > welcome.
 > >
 > > We should (simultaneously) pursue the idea of a clearinghouse for unit
 > > definitions, but that can probably be folded into the idea of one or
 > > more ontology repositories as we have been discussing in SEEK.  The EML
 > > unitDictionary really expresses semantic relationships between units in
 > > quantitiative terms -- it represents a simple ontology unto itself, and
 > > it is nicely unambiguous because the relationships are 
quantitative. So,
 > > given that we want to be able to access remote ontologies from in the
 > > seek tools (like Kepler), we should be able to make sure this approach
 > > accomodates quantitative ontologies like the unit dictionary.
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > > Matt
 > >
 > > Peter McCartney wrote:
 > > > Matt.
 > > >
 > > >  Im in the IMEXEC meeting. yesterday we discussed the concern 
shared by
 > > > several sites with expanding the units dictionary. I tried to 
summarize
 > > > some of the discussion we have had about impoving how we handle
 > > > enumerated lists and dictionaries in EML. there is an interest in
 > > > holding a working group at the next IM meeting in montreal to 
compile a
 > > > comprehensive list of unit definitions. Ive suggested that we follow
 > > > Margaret OBrien's example of submitting a list in a bug which 
they agree
 > > > is a reasonable simple approach, but would like to ensure that we can
 > > > provide for someone to do the follow up to make sure they get 
into the
 > > > dictionary. Is there someone specifically handling this that we can
 > > > invite to the meeting, or should we be thinking of identifying 
someone
 > > > to do that follow up?
 > > > everyone is interested in a future solution like DAT file refresh
 > > > services, but recognizes that for now, doing a large batch update 
of the
 > > > dictinary would benefit people.
 > >
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-- 
David E. Blankman, m.c.r.p
EML Integration Developer
Ecoinformatics Consultant
Member, EML Development Group
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Albuquerque, NM 87114-1417
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