2014-01-09 conference call¶

Martha's notes¶

upcoming¶

• there will be a separate conference call on long-term planning next Monday at 9am PT/10am Tucson/12pm ET
  • Brian Enquist is organizing this
  • it also includes the iPlant faculty
• the next regular conference call is next week at the same time it was in the fall (Th. 9am PT/10am Tucson/12pm ET)

availability¶

• Mark will be at the Synthesis for Data in Biodiversity conference in France next week
• please add your availability for spring 2014 to the *spreadsheet*:

decisions¶

VegBank/CVS validation¶

• Bob says we don't need any more validation extracts for VegBank/CVS
• Brad will validate the attribution-related changes against the normalized DB instead of the validation view

aggregating validations¶

• will be done after the release (Martha)

to do for Aaron¶

VegBank/CVS attribution¶

• map projectContributor table should also do for CVS, but not critical for publication

SALVIAS attribution¶

• refresh SALVIAS to get the additional tables from Brad's e-mail
  • see the 2013-12-19 conference call

GBIF validation¶

• implement TNRS workaround: use Accepted_name_family when Name_matched_accepted_family is not available
  note that this workaround does not fix the name in the GBIF extract that led us to this problem (Ecdeiocolea monostachya), because that is a no-opinion name

BIEN2 traits validation¶

• add data providers and locality information to extract
  • left-join to analytical_stem_view instead of Brad creating a denormalized view from scratch
  • see 2013-12-19 conference call

aggregating validations¶

• figure out what output format is needed so that the MySQL and PostgreSQL outputs match up not applicable anymore, because using only Postgres