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2013-08-01 conference call

Upcoming

  • call next week canceled due to low availability
  • next call on 8/15 (the week after next)
    • Ramona will organize it
    • Brad will be available
    • should discuss which of the normalized derived columns are critical for the October deadline, and which are value-added

Availability

  • most people gone next week
  • See the *Google spreadsheet* (and please add your availability for future weeks once it's known):

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Decisions made

target schema

  • will be VegBIEN for the October deadline
    however, this is not to imply that VegBIEN is better than VegCore. this decision was made only because of time constraints.
  • don't want to be in middle of switching to VegCore at deadline
  • however, VegCore is non-lossy: all source-specific columns are stored in an hstore
  • also, VegCore is much more maintainable because it doesn't require column-based import or the XPaths .
  • VegCore out of scope for October, but should be part of BIEN (Mark)

completion of DB

  • done when normalized schema can handle all datasources, and all datasources have been validated (Martha)
  • test VegBIEN by constructing scientific views and checking rowcounts
  • must have attribution info (Martha)
  • should have scientific views, but not necessary for October

derived columns

  • these are value-added services, less important than the core DB
  • they should be independent of the BIEN schema where possible

prioritized, using section #s from BIEN3_derived_data_products.docx:

  1. 5. data provenance, ownership, attribution and access conditions: (all) necessity rather than value-add (Martha)
    see Datasource conditions of use, which also includes citations, contacts, etc.
  2. 1. taxonomy: 1st priority (after attribution) (Mark, Martha)
  3. 3. geography: equal to TNRS in importance
  4. 4. cultivated
  5. 2. phylogeny: nice to have, but can be added after DB (Mark)
  • Mark, Brad, Martha, Brian E, Bob should review priorities

Martha's notes

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