2013-02-14 conference call¶

*Martha's notes*

Martha's To Do list¶

• Brian: Contact Rick Condit about CTFS. He's at NCEAS this week!! Brian E meeting with Rick C on Thursday 2/21 to discuss BIEN
• Bob: Reminder to validate the UNCC data extract for Aaron.
• Aaron: Contact Mike Lee about the problems with VegBank extract. Phone call may be needed to resolve things.
  First need to add information that's missing from the extract (strata, communities, etc.), before contacting Mike Lee
• Aaron: For FIA, see Brad's docs “Recommend filter criteria for BIEN” and “FIA tables and columns to import into BIEN”. Get REF codes from the FIA datamart.
• Aaron: For GBIF data, use instructions in Andrea Hahn's email today (Feb. 14) to get data from ftp site.
• Aaron: Send Brad the GBIF schema to inspect when you have it, so he can make sure it contains the info necessary to comply with GBIF's request for how to acknowledge providers.
  • available via phpMyAdmin (user bien_read; password is on vegbiendev in /home/bien/config/bien_read_password)
    size: 37 GB compressed; 274 GB expanded; fills up disk when imported into MySQL
• Brad: Send the doc with definitions of data provider, publisher, etc. around for comment. see BIEN database entities related to data provenance and ownership.docx .
• Brad: Send Aaron the vegbien_data_provenance_examples spreadsheet. see BIEN database entities related to data provenance and ownership.docx .
• Aaron: Modify the VegBIEN schema to accommodate the information required to fulfill GBIF data provider acknowledgement agreement.
  • updated provider counts in provider_count.csv
• Aaron: Refresh NY and send an extract to Brad to validate.
• Aaron: Implement the fix for morphospecies, then send a Salvias extract to Brad to validate.
• Brad: (re)validate HVAA. Team, Remib, ACAD, Salvias (after morphospecies fix), NY (after refresh)
• Martha: ping Bob to provide feedback on UNCC reexport (added)