[SEEK-Taxon] Re: [seek-kr-sms] Taxon/KR integration prototype proposal

[thau@learningsite.com]

Howdy!

What you write below makes sense.  The focus on GARP comes from a SEEK
decision to use GARP in early demos.  So, in our prototype, we're assuming
that the researcher has already decided to use GARP, and we can determine
necessary inputs based on that choice.  In the future (i.e. out of scope
for this demo), we'll have to support tool discovery, which will probably
involve asking questions about what kinds of data the person knows are
necessary to answer the question and then suggesting tools which support
that need.  This will create an iterative process in which a set of data
types are picked before the model is chosen, and then further data types
are required based on the model.

Dave

> In other words, I think it is possible to distinguish choices to be made 
> before the modeling tools are chosen from those arising as a consequence 
>   of that choice. Thus in the introduction quoted above, "[choose] 
> information about environmental properties" represents something to be 
> done /after/ the modeling regime is selected, whereas the other bullets 
> represent issues that could (must?) be resolved /before/ it is selected. 
>  From an engineering point of view, I guess that distinction will need 
> to be reflected in the architecture.

> I'm not close enough other than to speculate that it's possible SEEKers 
> are overfocused on GARP, and that GARP's way of doing business sometimes 
> intrudes on the generalities. (Oops. Self-invited visitor waggles finger 
> at admired hosts. Sorry.)
> 
> 
> thau at learningsite.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Shawn and I have been working on describing a prototype which would
> > integrate the things the ks-sms folks are doing and the things the taxon
> > group folk are doing.
> > 
> > Here's what we have so far.  Please take a look at this, and answer a few
> > questions for us:
> > 
> > 1.  Would a prototype like this be useful?
> > 2.  Is it scoped about right to have something to show by early May?
> > 3.  Are there other, better use cases integrating taxon and sms stuff?
> > 4.  The milestones are rough - but any thoughts about important
> > 	things that should go in there would be appreciated.
> > 5.  Does anything in this not make sense?
> > 6.  What kind of beer?
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > Dave and Shawn
> 
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