2011-10-24..28 working group¶

• 2011 working group Fr BIEN Implementation
• 2011 working group Fr Summary
• 2011 working group Mo BIEN workflow
• 2011 working group Mo technical challenges
• 2011 working group Th BIEN Components
• 2011 working group Th BIEN Implementation
• 2011 working group Th Summary of subgroups
• 2011 working group Th Use cases
• 2011 working group Th VegBank conference call
• 2011 working group Tu BIEN database
• 2011 working group Tu iPToL-BIEN Phylogenetics
• 2011 working group We BIEN tools
• 2011 working group We Use cases

• Activity Participants: botanical information network Working Group 24th—28th | NCEAS

Requirements summary¶

• BIEN 3.0 requirements outline: BIEN_3_database_summary_notes_from_brad_v3.docx

Goals¶

• "obtain clearly articulated use cases from each [subgroup]" (e-mail from Brian Enquist on 2011-10-17)
  • Use case template
• decide which Solutions to use
• e-mail from Brad Boyle on 2011-10-12:
  • "nailing down the model" rather than "broad conceptual discussions"
  • "substantially complete ERD"
    • Edit existing ERDs using e.g. MySQLWorkbench
  • "set of specifications"
• October 13 2011 WebEx meeting
  • platform
    • database system: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
    • web framework
  • schema
    • flat vs. normalized
  • development directives