[seek] summary of status reports for 12 July 2004

[Matt Jones]

Here's this week's summary.  The full report is available on the web:

http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=StatusReport12July2004

Matt

*  KR/SMS Group
    o Shawn is writing a new manual for the measurement ontology that 
Rich is building
    o Shawn points out the need for us to really develop a well-thought 
out approach to handling identifiers throughout SEEK

* Kepler group
   o Working on ontology-based browsing in Kepler to make it easier to 
find data and actors
   o Some new actors for biodiversity calculations and running 'R' 
scripts are available in Kepler
   o Working on data query UI design and implementing data query 
functions for EcoGrid

* EcoGrid group
   o Loading new data into SRB, working on put interface for writing data
   o Jing is working on data query and subsetting interface for EcoGrid
   o Steve is starting to design and implement a web interface for 
EcoGrid for the website

* Annual Report
   o The annual report to NSF is due. We will need a complete list of 
SEEK-sponsored publications from all participants. I will send a 
reminder email. Also, group leaders will be asked to write a summary of 
this year's progress (Beach, Jones, Michener, Rajasekar, Schildhauer, 
Ludaescher) for inclusion in the report using NSF's required format (see 
last year's report).

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University of California Santa Barbara
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