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2013-07-25 conference call

Ramona's notes

see *iPlant wiki*

Upcoming

  • call next week at regular time (Thursday at 8:30am)
    • Brad will not be available
    • Martha will be available again

Availability

  • Jim back from vacation next week
  • See the *Google spreadsheet* (and please add your availability for future weeks once it's known):

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Decisions made

derived columns

  • Brad: all derived columns, including geovalidation, need to be a pipeline
    (what priority should making a geovalidation pipeline have compared to refactoring, etc.?)
  • Brad: BIEN species-level phylogeny (part of the derived data) is out of scope for the database

end users

  • Brad: we should not be handling people's individual data requests (Naia's new project, John's range modeling)
  • Mark: normalized DB not useful to end users; they need the scientific views instead

import process refactoring

  • we will do the flattening of the datasources
    • this is a change from the previous plan (see comments on "map all datasources to denormalized VegCore schema")
    • this is similar to the denormalized import process suggested a while ago as a way to bypass VegBIEN and go directly to VegCore.
      we may want to consider the steps for that approach in doing the flattening.
  • Brad: it should be flatten->validate->normalize

VegBIEN XML import

  • Ramona: our datasources aren't XML, so why do we need an XML import schema?

VegBIEN schema

  • Brad: he and Bob found deficiencies in VegBIEN that are addressed in normalized VegCore
    (Mark asked what are these?)
  • Brad: VegBIEN is broken because it doesn't have Brad's/Bob's fixes, so we need to move to VegCore
  • we should discuss next week whether to abandon the VegBIEN schema in favor of normalized VegCore