[seek-dev] Re: notes on eml (Your comments and suggestions will be greatly a ppreciated!)

[Jenny Wang]

Hi, Matt and Peter,

Your quick responses are really appreciated, and I am
so excited by the new information you provide!

I am digesting, will come back to you asap. BTW, I am in eml-dev
and seek-dev mailing lists for a few months already.

Thank you two again!!!

Jenny




On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Matt Jones wrote:

> Looking over Peter's comments, it seems we were essentially in 100%
> agreement about the areas where more work is needed in EML, and the
> areas where there was some confusion about what EML actually provides.
> I'm looking forward to the continuation of this discussion, and thinking
> about the impact that Jenny's analysis might have on out plans for SEEK.
>   Can we do it on the seek-dev at ecoinformatics.org mailing list?  That
> way, it might get some of the other interested seek contributors
> involved, and might extend our thinking to include the taxonomy and
> collections information that we're targeting as well.  If you're not
> subscribed to seek-dev, you can do so at the following web site:
>      http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/seek-dev
>
> Matt
>
> Peter McCartney wrote:
> > Hi Jenny. Ive atached a copy of your file with comments interlaced. I
> > just saw that Matt also responed, so im assuming he has convered areas
> > ive missed. I did want to askif you were looking at the latests eml
> > 2.0.0 - some of you comments made me wonder if you just had an outdated
> > copy. I hope these help. Aspart of our collaboration with sdsc on the
> > modeling itr for phoenix, im hoping to implement some of the challenges
> > you point out using eml and web services. We should definitely talk more
> > with Tony so we can get some interesting projects line up.
> >
> > Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> > Center for Environmental-Studies
> > Arizona State University
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jenny Wang [mailto:jwang at sdsc.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:58 AM
> > To: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu; Peter McCartney
> > Cc: fountain at sdsc.edu; ludaesch at sdsc.edu; goguen at cs.ucsd.edu;
> > guilian at cs.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: notes on eml (Your comments and suggestions will be greatly
> > appreciated!)
> >
> >
> > Hi, Matt and Peter,
> >
> > How are you? Hope everything is going well with you!
> >
> > The attached is my notes on eml with data integration. Prof.Goguen,
> > Bertram, Tony and me are trying to make use of EML for ecological
> > applications involving data and model integration in SEEK project
> > context. I did not mention any good appects of EML in the notes,
> > actually only those apsects needed to be extended and further effort
> > needed to make EML useful for applications from my point of view. Peter
> > already got it from Tony at LTER meeting last week. Some may be wrong,
> > or you don't agree with some of it. Your insights on making EML good for
> > data integration, and your comments and suggestions on my notes are very
> > valuable and will be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > We are thinking that we may take a
> > small parts of EML, like attribute part, distribution part, extending
> > them and demonstrating their use with a case application (eg.
> > integrating land cover indices with climate variables, using the same
> > data as those used in the "Integrated Features" part of Spatial Data
> > Workbench, but taking a different approach, you can reach SDW at
> > http://sdw.sdsc.edu). But your input will be extremely important to
> > this, and any EML related effort in the future.
> >
> > Many many thanks to your time and help! Looking forward to hearing from
> > you two,
> >
> > Jenny
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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