[seek-taxon] FW: Observation WG - materials for your review (due Oct 26, 2005)
Robert K. Peet
peet at unc.edu
Mon Oct 31 20:54:48 PST 2005
Following my conversation with Bruce Stein, I spoke with NatureServe's
Lynn Kutner. She was very helpful and described on-going activities. At
first she was a bit reluctant to share the documents attached because they
represent early drafts, but I explained we want to move ahead with our EML
proposal rather fast, so she sent them with the caveat that they are
indeed in an early stage. Please keepo them largely inside our group for
the present.
Bob
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:47:35 -0400
From: Lynn Kutner <Lynn_Kutner at natureserve.org>
To: peet at unc.edu
Subject: FW: Observation WG - materials for your review (due Oct 26, 2005)
Hi Bob -
Here are the very drafty materials I described - please let me know if
you have any questions.
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
NatureServe
Email: lynn_kutner at natureserve.org
Phone: (303) 541-0360
www.natureserve.org
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From: Lynn Kutner
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'john.fleckenstein at wadnr.gov'; Peter_Sorrill; 'Pete Sorrill (E-mail)';
Ewen Eberhardt; Larry Master; Jennifer Nichols; Donna Reynolds; Bruce
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Cc: Rob Solomon; Keith Carr; Don Faber-Langendoen; Douglas Sellers; Judy
Soule; Kristin Barker
Subject: Observation WG - materials for your review (due Oct 26, 2005)
Hi observation working group -
Sorry for not sending out any communications recently. It's been a very
busy summer and the good news is that there is growing interest in the
development of observation data standards both across the NatureServe
network and internationally. Even though you haven't heard from me
recently - I've been busy in the background integrating your comments
and taking the draft to the next stage. I was also able to make
presentations about this effort at several international conferences.
A brief summary of observation standard development:
1) Integrated all your comments from the June 27-28 meeting into a
single master document.
2) Used your "High, Medium, Low, or Drop" prioritization and
comments to get an initial sense of what people saw as core information
to be included across data types.
3) Worked extensively with Jennifer Nichols, Donna Reynolds, and
Larry Master to develop a draft for the core attributes including
preliminary discussions about possible data types (see:
obs_core_20051005.xls), and began to play around with ideas for possible
database structure (see: Obs_Data_Model_ver2.doc).
4) Used comments from the team to develop a first draft of
requirements for the observation data standard & database (see:
obs_requirements_ver2.1.doc)
Meetings - presentations and discussion about the development of an
observation data standard:
* ESRI International User Conference
* Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) annual meeting
* Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) annual meeting
* East region heritage conference (people seemed to like much of
the core data ideas presented and the discussion ended up mostly focused
on software needs)
HOMEWORK:
Please review the attached documents and get comments back to me by
Wednesday October 26th.
The highest priority for comments:
* Are the observation data standard requirements statements
correct? Anything critical missing? (see the 1st section of
"obs_requirements_ver2.1.doc")
* Does the "core" dataset seem to be headed in the correct
direction? Anything critical missing? Anything that should be dropped
from the "core" set? (see items marked "core" in the spreadsheet
"obs_core_20051005.xls")
If you have finished the above and have time - thoughts on possible data
types and database structure would be helpful. Several of us began to
play around with ideas, but this is not at all well developed.
Want an observation working group conference call? It's been awhile
since we've met - please let me know if you'd like me to set up a
conference call for the group.
NEXT STEPS:
As those of you who are on the NatureServe datamanager / Biotics email
lists may have noticed - there's a huge interest right now in
observation data. I'd like to have some draft materials ready by the end
of October to send out for broader review and comment while this topic
is on people's minds. The first priority is to turn the core information
types into a data dictionary / schema. Then we can wrestle with database
design.
A team at NatureServe has begun to think about a software prototype for
an observation data module. I've been in close communication with this
group, and continue to provide them with drafts from our efforts.
Thanks!
Lynn
P.S. I'll also post these materials in our my.nbii.gov work area
Lynn Kutner
NatureServe
Email: lynn_kutner at natureserve.org
Phone: (303) 541-0360
www.natureserve.org
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