2012-11-30 breakout groups¶

• pictures 8:30-9am
• prioritize work on drafts
• subgroups self-organize remaining work
• whitepaper outline
• range spectra paper
  • last aspect of rarity paper
  • beginning of next week
• network analysis breakout group
• finish intro for betadiversity paper (Christine's paper)
• 1:30pm: future of BIEN
• how much more reloading needed for BIEN 3
• more Madidi plots
• collab w/ iPlant
• next meeting in 2013 or is this last meeting?
• funding
• current and immediate manuscript efforts
• phylogeny, traits, macroecology
• bulleted series of goals, short- and long-term
• after 2013?
• Brian McGill, Jens
• database vision
• iPlant bubbles
• scientific areas we're looking at enabling
• infrastructure needs
• overall structure of goals
  • prioritize goals in 2013
• additional data
• how much reloading of data? any BIEN2 data (2009-10) that hasn't been refreshed
• data attribution
• iPToL
• if phylogeny is important, should iPlant continue to support that as part of BIEN?
• prioritizing projects
• BIEN datasources and herbaria
• how to partner with museum communities
• infrastructure: more careful and thoughtful thinking
• list of things needed, data attribution, conditions of access
• before BIEN goes live, allow access to resource to data providers
• issues with data usage before submit? how to best cite, provide attribution?
• formatted string of acknowledgment section
• how to attribute 300 sources?
• 285 herbaria
• list of herbarium codes for paper
• Peter's validations for MO

Afternoon summary¶

• two meetings at same time and place: IUCN, technical
• iPlant could fund one half
• narrower technical focus, specific deliverables
• another meeting possible
• plan on ABI solicitation
• RCN supports novel, innovative networks vs. mature collaboration
• go global?
• ABI due July
• ABI: Advances in Biological Informatics
• CSAP (in Provence): free meeting like NCEAS
  • submit proposal
• French NCEAS: can ask money for products
  • part of working group
• start with French NCEAS
• in January, find money to do something at European scale
• sources of funding, support

Validation¶

• NY done
• MO done
• data providers to BIEN look at output of BIEN to see that it's what it should be
• refresh data w/ greater complexity for plot data
• CVS
• also SALVIAS, CTFS (Rick Condit)
• NVS
• Martha taking lead
• GBIF, Danish herbaria
• validation export at end in DwC format
  • product to display on website
• value-added fields
• summarization scripts in R
• views in live SQL database
• do summaries of data match?
• value-added fields also summarizations
• get RAINFOR
• table of all datasets imported
• write down every datasource, starting w/ most important

Traits¶

• integrate traits in BIEN3
  • currently using what's BIEN2
  • key is taxonomic name
  • summarize and enable exploration
• VegX-compliant metadata? but problems with XML
• BIEN3 plot specimen data standardizations->traits
• conceptual modeling approach for storing traits
• started collecting traits from trees
• tied to a voucher
• series of traits

• MO working with data structure under BIEN umbrella
• support this under semantics research
• next meeting: November 2013? December?
• subgroup documents documenting marching orders
• on Plone site, post draft of subgroup notes
• remembering what's in everyone's head
• iterate
• Google doc
• Brian E's notes on Plone site
• summarize using Plone site points
• website becomes more and more important
• sequence of events
• which datasources can be reviewed, vs. need to be refreshed first
• independently-uploaded data
• GBIF missing elevation
• test ARIZ, tested what we can test
• next step, needs to be refresh
• tell them about project
• things on WordPress site to point to
• e-mail providers that their data are used in BIEN
• 2013
• present on BIEN in own institutions
• Plone site PowerPoints, PDFs
• no problems with BIEN2, need sufficient testing of BIEN3
• URL vs. launch date
• establish timeline
• when open for business? January?
• 3rd party data
• present at Spinach meetings in June
• meeting in Miami
• list of conferences where presented
• presentation at U of A campus
• request supplement to funding
• core development team continue
• timeline: NSF structured budget in renewal
  • 1st 3 years at full funding, then declines
  • timeline is 3 years, then sustainability mode
• scope of BIEN: world
• solving technical issues
• long-term goals
• launching first version
• need web presence
• rolling out and launch
• range of societies and ESA
• International Arctic Flora and Vegetation
• individual partnerships
• way to involve other countries
• other European connections
• collaborative
• Dimensions of Biodiversity connections
  • Amazon Biodiversity
• proposals
• better technology to manage awards
• collecting plot/occurrence information->somewhere to store it
• new work involving phylogenies
• emphasize phylogenetic angle
• BIEN machine well-organized
• need to get papers out: priority
  • Martha will organize
• short- and longterm goals