[seek] summary of status reports for July 19, 2004

[Matt Jones]

http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=StatusReport19July2004

*  Kepler group
    o Design of user interface, including new browsing interfaces for
      left panels and new interface for configuring a data query (see
      actor*.jpg screenshots and Query builder)
    o Significant contention on how this design process should proceed.
      Some people are arguing that our design and development process
      needs to be much more formal, and that it needs to start from
      ground zero, making no asssumptions about how users should work
      with the software (i.e., do not take Kepler as a basis for design).
    o New biodiversity actors available in Kepler

* KR/SMS Group
   o Continued work on Growl ontology editor. Need to assess how this
     will be integrated with other applications like Kepler, and whether
     it is targeted correctly for our users.
   o Continued work on schema matching tool. Need to assess how this will
     be integrated with other tools -- can it play a role in the Kepler
     software?

* EcoGrid group
   o Started considering the write (put) interface for EcoGrid

* Taxon group
   o Franz and Peet manuscript available for review
   o Question: have the issues surrounding use of GUID on relationships
     been resolved?

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