[SEEK-Taxon] tomorrow's conference call

[Richard Pyle]

Is it alright if I join the conference call, or is it for SEEK-funded folks
only?  I'd really like to take the opportunity to listen in and get back on
track with where SEEK is going -- especially in terms of the TDWG
connection.

Thanks,
Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: seek-taxon-admin at ecoinformatics.org
[mailto:seek-taxon-admin at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jessie
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:04 AM
To: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: [SEEK-Taxon] tomorrow's conference call


Hi Guys
Can I request that all of us on the conference call have access to a
computer so that we can discuss the schemas more easily - lack of machines
made this difficult last time.
We have had a look at the TES schema posted by Robert and have a few
questions/comments which we will discuss tomorrow however I think we need to
clarify from the outset whether we are discussing the SEEK taxon concept
database schema or a proposal to change the Taxonomic concept exchange
schema which we are putting to TDWG.
I know Dave V asked me whether the TDWG was the same as the Napier schema as
the SEEK schema to which I replied they are all the same - and which at the
time I believed they were. It seems now looking at this proposal that there
are SEEK/DB specific issues in it then maybe we are now starting to separate
the transfer schema from the implementation schema and we need to be clear
about whether or not they are different and if they are ensure that they
remain compatible but understand why and where they are different.
It would also be useful to know the reasoning behind the changes as we
thought we had explained why the existing schema shouldn't have caused a
problem during the last conference call - but maybe didn't?
We have been working on other issues and options for the transfer schema
which are on the wiki page some of which we will likely incorporate and
others not.
speak to you tomorrow....
Jessie
Prof. Jessie B Kennedy
School of Computing
Napier University
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