2014-06-05 conference call¶

Martha's notes¶

Priorities

• The top priority is now to get the Data Dictionary drafted by 5 PM Monday, June 9th.
• It would be good if the taxon name scrubbing could continue running in the background, but if additional problems crop up, do not let them become a distraction. File a bug report, contact iPlant support and return to working on the Data Dictionary.

To Do

Aaron

• In the table with definitions add a column for the database table the terms come from.
• For derived terms describe how they are derived and provide the provenance of the term.
• Include both the definition from VegCore and the link to the source it came from.
• To get started, create the definitions, with links to the source, for about 6 terms this by sometime this evening.
  • Send them to Martha (and Mark) for feedback.
• Continue working on defining terms to get as many as possible done before the Friday call.

Martha

• Provide feedback on the initial set of terms Aaron sends out.

Mark, Martha, Aaron

• Have a call at 9 AM tomorrow, Friday, June 6th, to review what Aaron has gotten done on the Data Dictionary.

upcoming¶

• there will be conference calls next Thursday and Friday (both days at 8-11a PT&Tucson/11a-2p ET) to review the VegBIEN data dictionary
  • the Thursday call overlaps with next week's regular conference call time
• there will be a separate conference call to plan the data dictionary this Friday (tomorrow) at 9a PT&Tucson (WebEx link)

availability¶

• please add your availability for summer 2014 to the *spreadsheet*:

decisions¶

TNRS¶

• everything TNRS-related should be set aside until the viewFullOccurrence terms in the VegBIEN data dictionary are done (Martha)
  • "If the taxon scrubbing can be kept running in the background without distracting you, keep it going. If it becomes a distraction, leave it until after the data dictionary work is done."

VegBIEN data dictionary¶

• should include both definition and link to source term

viewFullOccurrence data dictionary¶

• should include the VegBIEN source column or formula

VegBank terms¶

• OK to link to the table the column is in, rather than always to the column directly (Mark, Martha)
  • this avoids the need to write a screen-scraper to translate the column names to numeric IDs for the column description URL

to do for Aaron¶

viewFullOccurrence data dictionary¶

1. fill in definition, link to source term, and VegBIEN source column/formula for half a dozen terms
   • pick some terms from each source, and a few derived columns, rather than starting at the top
2. "As soon as about half a dozen have been done this evening, let Martha know so she can provide feedback." (Martha)
3. complete a lot of these by the data dictionary planning call tomorrow
4. all terms needed by Monday at 5p PT so that the scientists have time to review them before the conference calls
   note that it will most likely not be possible to have all the terms available by then. we will instead try to have the most important subset available.

info¶

VegBIEN data dictionary¶

• Brian M needs the data dictionary in order to create the analytical tables (Martha)