[seek-dev] Dataset display in Kepler

[Matt Jones]

Dave,

And I'll add a few comments to Jing's request....

We discussed today wrapping each DarwinCore node's results in an EML 
description so that the records appear as a single table.  Thus, the 
output might look something like this:

+ Fish data                   <== An EML data package
   - Species List
   - Metabolism
+ Amphibian data              <== An EML data package
+ Manis                       <== A Darwin core data package
   - Specimen Occurences
+ KU Birds                    <== A Darwin core data package
   - Specimen Occurences

So the sense of a "data package" is maintained, but each of the Darwin 
core results will have a single virtual "table" that contains the darwin 
core fields.  Thus, someone in the Kepler UI can treat Darwin core and 
EML data uniformly because we abstract away the differences in the UI. 
The EML data sources would contain potentially multiple tables, while 
the Darwin core tables would only contain one.  Double clicking on the 
package title produces an HTML view of the EML metadata for each (via 
XSL), which includes a definition of the columns in the table(s).  The 
Darwin Core nodes would have a single EML document describing the whole 
collection.

It would be really useful if you went over the screen shots for the 
Kepler UI.  Jing walked us through them today, but your experience with 
DiGIR and Darwin core would be valuable in figuring out if we missed 
something important.

Thanks,
Matt

Jing Tao wrote:
> Hi, Dave:
> 
> This morning we - Bing, Peter, Matt, Jing, Raja and Rod went through the 
> screenshots for the design.
> 
> You know, this design is pretty much base on eml document. For example, 
> in datasetGUIDisplayBeforeExpand.png file, one fold means a dataset 
> document(metadata). The list was gotten by parsing the query search 
> result. In datasetGUIDisplay, a folder(The data for fish...) 
> is expanded to couple subitems(such as Body Temperature, Speciese listing 
> and chemicals in water). One subitem is a data table(or data file) and it 
> has a name(e.g. Body Temperature).
> 
> I am not familiar to Digir and Darwin Core, so would you mind going 
> through  the screenshots and giving some suggestion how to express those 
> concepts in Digir system? 
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Jing
> 
> --------- 
> Jing Tao
> National Center for Ecological
> Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> 735 State St. Suite 204
> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
> 
> Dear ecogrid folks:
> 
> The design documents are in kepler/docs/dev dir.
> 
> The file ecogridDatasetClassDiagrams.vsd is for class diagram design. And
> the file ecogridDatasetDesign.svg is for collaboration design.
> 
> Screenshots is in sub dir - screenshots. The first one is init.png. The
> following ones are: datasetGUIDisplayBeforeExpand.png,
> datasetGUIDisplay.png, dragDataTableSelectionAttribute.png,
> dragDataTable.png and lookInside.png.
> 
> The metadata display and data display are doubleClickMetadataDisplay.png
> and doubleClickDataDisplay.png.
> 
> The advance search screenshots are: subjectSearch.png,
> taxonomicSearch.png, spatialSearch.png and optionSearch.png.
> 
> Hope this is helpful for tomorrow's conference. Talk with you at 10:00 am
> (PCT)!
> 
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