• Table of contents
• 2013-08-01 conference call
  • Upcoming
  • Availability
  • Decisions made
    • target schema
    • completion of DB
    • derived columns
  • Martha's notes

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):

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¶

notes