2012-10-19 conference call¶

Upcoming meetings¶

• Brad will not be available next Friday
• We may be meeting again next Friday 10/26, and Brad will have a separate meeting with Aaron, or we will change the meeting time

To do¶

1. finish core DB
   • attach TNRS to NCBI at genus level when possible, otherwise at family level
   • also store morphospecies in taxonepithet: stored in taxonepithet of the verbatim taxonlabel
     • set taxonstatus to NULL if is a morphospecies: not necessary because taxonstatus only applies to the matched taxonlabel, which does not contain the morphospecies
2. build analytical DB and give to Brad/Bob to look over
   • formalize structure
   • generate taxonMorphospecies by concatenating scientificName to morphospecies
   • include growthform (habit)
     • this is a trait
3. build GNRS (just the name resolution)
   • obtain Brad's scripts
4. plan point-in-polygon geovalidation
   • BIEN2 point-in-polygon validations took a year
   • use existing geoscrub table on nimoy as a cache
   • but there are over twice as many records in BIEN3 as BIEN2, so the additional records will not be in geoscrub
   • TACC computing resources
5. reload datasources
   • GBIF, CVS
6. new datasources
   • Canada, South America (Argentina, Chile), Bob's datasets
7. additional parsing
   • parse growthform out of specimen description

Availability¶

• Brad will not be available next Friday