[seek-taxon] SEEK Taxon Presentation Comments

[Beach, James H]

Taxonomers:
 
Here are the suggestions I received from the SEEK-Taxon presentation.  Feel free to comment and embellish and sen back to me.
 
Jim
 
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Audience Comments on the SEEK Taxon Draft presentation

3 May 2006

 

1.	Matt---Speed it up.
2.	Dave---25 minutes.
3.	Matt--Go through the initial slides faster, not so much time on the bottle slide, cut back on the history and context of names and exploration, maybe half as many words, faster.
4.	Someone---cut 3-4 slides.
5.	Mark---Might be nice after the bottle slide to show the relationship between specimens, names and vouchers. Maybe not clear what happens to the binomials.
6.	Matt-In this intro need to explain why Taxon data was identified for special treatment in SEEK.

	a.	It is a problem that is pretty unique to the biodiversity community
	b.	Taxon data is pervasive in ecological and observational data, and a key index for analysis, at various levels of biological organization.

7.	Mark-There might be a chance here to highlight the importance of Biodiversity research, global change, extinction, why it is particularly critical now to get names and concepts squared away and precisely organized.
8.	Mark---Should there be an 'after' slide for the Aus bus slide? One with GUIDs to unambiguously identify concepts for data integration. To show how multiple classifications can be tamed?  How does the technology solution change the view of that kind of historical lineage information.
9.	Mark---It would be nice to see how the pieces work together in diagram like Jessie's in the solution part, not clear how TaxViz and ConceptMapper, connect to the rest of the servers.
10.	Bertram-he will make a forward reference to the seek data integration slide, Beach, "So the Merge Actor that was discussed earlier for this scenario did not take care of the semantics of the names..."  This is a justification for the SEEK work.
11.	Mark and others---The metadata entry on the TCS schema does not explain anything and seems strange as it is all metadata. Also there is no place that shows where the characters are in this schema and the kinds of characters.
12.	Jessie---The Abies example is an authority example and not a geography example of how name usage varies.
13.	Matt---future directions slide: Getting more data should emphasize the need and reward for engagement with data providers and users, not just get more data.
14.	Bertram---slides should be numbered.

 

 

 
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