4D4Life 2nd Project Meeting, Faro, Portugal
Day 1, Tuesday 16th February 2010
Location: Dona Filipa Hotel Meeting Room
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome and adoption of agenda
9.10 – 9.30 Minutes from previous meeting
9.30 – 9.40 Multi-hub Introduction
9.40 – 10.00 Presentations of regional hub databases, their structures and functionality:
10. 00-12.00 Multi-hub service model of the Catalogue of Life:
- Network configuration/architecture (diagrams and comments)
- Multi-connected star
- Hub and spoke
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Data (supply and format) wrappers (SPICE)
Options and architectures:
- Taxon & Name Data - quality
- Filter inbound to data warehouse
- Filter outbound from data warehouse
12.00-13.00 Multi-hub service - questions and problems
- CoL Multi-hub questions
- Internal overlapping
- Definition of geographical boundaries (degree of detail of recorded (cashed) locality, continent, country, site)
- Extra-boundary species
- Unified style checklist for regions
- Meaning and depth of synonym searches
- Differences and unification of regional taxonomies
- Types of queries (Booleans) (queries based on master list)
- Queries based on presence x absence of the taxon in CoL
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.15 Discussion about requirements for e-2 architecture (Richard White WP 7)
14.15-15.15 Building an ideal regional centre
A. Data collecting & networking
B. Data dissemination & publicity
C. Education
D. Fund raising
15.15-16.00 Multi-hub service - Discussion
16.00-17.00 Task 4.1 viz annex deliverable!! For EU commission
Needs, concepts and specification - Questions, Discussion
(Discuss which Pilot project we should start) China – already decided
Preliminary Plan + time table for extension of Multi-Hub Network for the World
Day 2, Wednesday 17th February 2010
Location: Dona Filipa Hotel Meeting Room
Plenary Agenda
(intended for all participants of 4D4Life Project)
9.00 Welcome & Introductions FB
9.10 Progress in 4D4Life FB
9.30 WP2: Analysis of Catalogue of Life Usage and Users SO & MJ
10.00 WP2: Proposed new CoL services and prioritisation SO & MJ
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Discussion: Usage: Users: Services: Priorities FB
11.30 WP3: Compliance Survey and Proposed Pilot-Projects TB & DO
12.00 WP4: First steps in planning the Global Multi-Hub Network JK & FB
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Consortium Meeting & Membership of Species 2000 FB
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 WP5: 2010 Checklist and Steps to Unified Production YR
16.00 WP6: Progress with enhancement of existing software WA
16.30 WP7: Planning with new service-based architecture RW
17.00 End of Plenary Session
Day 3, Thursday 18th February 2010
Location: Dona Filipa Hotel Meeting Room
WP3 Workshop: The GSD Network
(intended for all GSDs and other content databases contributing to the CoL,
that is members of Workpackage 3 and others)
Introduction and Principal Tasks for the day
09.00 Welcome & Introductions TB & DO
09.05 Reminder: WP3 objectives and Tasks 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 TB
09.15 Introduction: Survey of provider GSD Compliance TB & DO
Databases Peer-reviews, Certification, Wrapper & Sp2000 membership
09.45 Introduction: Additional Fields for the Standard Data Set DO
10.00 Introduction: Additional Data Supply requests from the Services Team SO
10.15 Reminder: overview of the Standard Data Set TB
10:30 Coffee Break
Core Planning on GSD Compliance and GSD Pilot-Projects
11.00 Survey of provider GSDs. Full report on levels of compliance with:
a) Standard Data Set and
b) Best Practice Document TB & DO
11.45 Pilot Projects
Identified Priorities
Full Listing of Proposed Pilot Projects for GSDs TB & DO
12:30 Lunch
Further Discussion on GSD Compliance and GSD Pilot-Projects
14:00 Continuing Discussion on Compliance TB & DO
14.30 Continuing Discussion on Pilot-Projects and Agreed expenditure on these TB & DO
15:00 Coffee Break
Consultation on other matters
15.30 Internal service supply issues
(e.g. name-alerts, comments from users, taxa from regional hubs, cross-checks with other lists, and unassigned name batches) TB & DO
16.00 Review of Standard Data Set documentation TB & DO
Summary
16.30 Summary of agreed actions and timetable. TB
17:00 End of WP3 Workshop Session
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