Table of Contents

  1. CdmDataportalRoadmap
  2. Statistics
  3. Vernacular names search
  4. Prioritizing bugs and new features
  5. Bibliography
  6. Type species for genus names
  7. Credits
  8. Images
  9. Portal Management
  10. Editor
  11. Imports
  12. Next meeting
    1. 1. Welcome (9:30)
    2. 2. Data Portals (10:00)
    3. 3. Taxonomic Editor (13:00)
    4. 4. Imports (15:00)
    5. Others (16:30)
    6. End (17:00)

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EDIT WP5 / WP6 PORTAL & EDITOR MEETING MINUTES

March 11, 2009, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Participants: Anahit Babadshanjan, Irina Brake, Pepe Ciardelli, Ralf Hand, Niels Hoffmann, Norbert Kilian, Andreas Kohlbecker, Andreas Müller, Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Soraya Villalba

CdmDataportalRoadmap

  • Tasks with security considerations moved back to August, when security apparatus should be further along
  • Issue 18 "implement image import with metadata handling for user contributed images" put off until Sept. - too big an issue for August deliverable

Statistics

  • Wiki page for statistics? Exemplar groups should propose categories
  • The same filters can be used for name indexing, advanced search, and statistics
  • Ralf requested filters for: all names with protologs / type info / etc.; names with no type info
  • Exemplar groups should request filters via ticket #424 (CdmDataportalRoadmap issue 6)
  • Don't forget: statistics helpful, but not a high priority

Vernacular names search

  • Diptera not so interested in common names
  • Palms stores them as part of descriptions
  • Cichorieae common names exist, not yet imported into CDM
  • Button for search results from another session is confusing – NEEDED: more feedback to tell user exactly what this means
  • Put sort order of search results under ticket #472

Prioritizing bugs and new features

  • Bugs affecting users' first impression should be made highest priority
  • Recognize that there is tradeoff with new functionality
  • Cichorieae has 2 portal versions, internal & external; external only shows completed functionality
  • Diptera and Palm portals must be presentable for eBiosphere conference in June
  • CONCLUSION: bugs marked as CRITICAL must be solved before new features are implemented
  • Developers should let exemplar groups know if a CRITICAL bug requires so much time that it will impede schedules

Bibliography

  • Norbert: nomenclatural refs are largely inappropriate as source for bibliography, should be replaced by full bibliographic citations
  • The developers explained the implications of clustering references, unique IDs
  • Each taxon page should have bibliography, i.e. list of all references used for taxon
  • Is there a possibility of identifying a reference as being in some way related to a taxon? Could lists be generated which show all references for units, descriptions, etc., and allow the user to choose which ones to show?
  • Sort order was discussed, as was the implentation of reference title cache
  • The linking of bibliographic references was discussed
  • A list of Palm references was imported from an RTF file; these apparently should not have been imported
  • EndNote one possible tool for reference imports, but it is commercial software, and its long-term viability is therefore in question
  • How should references be linked? Via taxa? Keywords?
  • Group preference: references have IDs used for listing
  • Discussed linking subsets of text w/ references i.e. text ranges identified for footnoting – this would however mean significant changes to model and software

Type species for genus names

  • NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: synonymy w/ in name type designations; infrequent but not necessarily rare; requires a model change
  • Group would prefer the synonymy to be displayed in the type in square brackets, rather than within a link to taxon / synonymy (because it is better to have all info on one page, not hidden in a link)
  • Designations of type species are handled differently in zoology. For example instead of calling a type species 'lectotype' it is cited how the species was designated, e.g. by subsequent designation (see ticket #642). However a type specimen of a species name may be a lectotype.
  • Add monotype to specimen type designation statii?
  • Soraya will send Andreas M. examples of more complicated name type formats

Credits

  • Requires further modelling discussion
  • Group discussed possibility of associating a credit with taxon, as well as with an entire treatment by associating a credit with the treatment's highest-ranked taxon
  • Nice to have: the ability to pull up all contributions from one person
  • A credit class would conceivably consist of:
    • person / contributor;
    • new info / correction / addition;
    • team;
    • year;
    • associated taxon / description / reference / etc.
  • Use Cichorieae credits as test case

Images

  • 1) Contributed images 2) User images
  • Where will image be stored? How will they be displayed?
  • Store in Flicker? Morphbank (not answering Soraya's entreaties)? Amazon S3?
  • Exemplar group images can be stored at BGBM for the time being
  • Linking of type images – using type images stored in Vienna possible performance indicator vis à vis integration
  • Can images be saved with type designation?
  • Protolog images should be shown with synonymy, perhaps via small link icon
  • Norbert's wish: implement rudimentary image support in type module to give a rough idea of how type images will be fully implemented in the future

Portal Management

  • Andreas K. walked through administration options
  • Need to make portal theming more flexible
  • Palm & Diptera will send Berlin developers screenshots / specs for theming their portals – in the short-term at least, these themes will be static, i.e. non-configurable, but will at least reflect the wishes of the exemplar groups

Editor

  • Irina requested following formatting in property sheet for genus name type designations:
+ Type SpeciesSpecies name
----- Designationi.e. Monotypy
--- + Citation …
  • Next feature: images
  • Palms have a complex Description feature "Uses" which cannot be input using any existing tool – should Editor be extended for "Uses"?
  • After Pepe’s London trip, he will send exemplar groups a stable version of the Editor

Imports

  • The group agreed on a format for Excel spreadsheets for name import – now data is needed to test the import

Next meeting

  • Combine with eBiosphere in London? Maybe in a smaller group (to be determined via email), then with full group in September?
  • Link

AGENDA

The agenda of the meeting was as follows:

1. Welcome (9:30)

  • Agenda
  • Minutes

2. Data Portals (10:00)

  • Progress on the current list of tasks
  • Reference Page / List
  • Types
  • Credits
  • Images
  • Portal management (access to administrators)
  • t.b.c

3. Taxonomic Editor (13:00)

4. Imports (15:00)

Others (16:30)

  • Next meeting

End (17:00)