Talk:HISCOM 2007 AGM Darwin

Meeting business, minutes, chair from 2008 etc. (90 mins)
We need to discuss the timing of HISCOM AGMs, as yet again, TDWG falls on the same week as HISCOM, making it difficult for Australian TDWG members to attend both meetings.

HISCOM software and web documentation licensing models (20 mins)
Finalise software and documentation licenses, and ensure these licenses are implemented in the software/documentation.

SourceForge site and code uploads (30 mins)
Which SourceForge project do we use?

The HISCOM web site (30 mins)

 * Group participation in the Management and maintenance of our web presence
 * Use of the wiki for ongoing discussion and documentation
 * Web site training (Ben) - wiki etc
 * Overview of the new HISCOM site
 * Overview of the HISCOM wiki
 * Roles, appropriate default permissions, who may be involved

GIS and spatial standards

 * HISCOM validation suite
 * On-line resources
 * Existing tools

HISPID5 (90 mins)
(Doesn't need long discussion, just flag anything that's not ok)
 * Review executive summary
 * Review HISPID5 in particular fields removed from HISPID5

Specifically:


 * Are there any elements we are persisting with in HISPID5 that are no longer necessary?
 * Are there any new elements that should be in there? - we haven't reviewed HISPID in a while, so here's your chance!
 * Are the controlled vocabularies ok?
 * Do we need a working group to take on phenology, or do we leave it as it is?
 * Do we restrict DuplicatesDistributedTo or leave it as free text?

AVH 2.0 (180 mins)

 * Progress reports
 * TAPIR ABCD providers at each Institution
 * Implementation issues
 * Detailed requirements for each institutions participation
 * This is something for which we may have resources if the necessary data is gathered prior to the meeting for collation here
 * Interface design
 * Interface testing (completing the evaluation)
 * Web services requirements

AVH data requests and error reporting (30 mins)

 * Bulk data requests are taking a lot of time
 * What to do?

Electronic Flora projects (60 mins)

 * ABRS, AD, PERTH, SYD, NSW, CANB, DNA, CHR and HO
 * Co-operative development
 * Species profile standards
 * Are we using DELTA or Lucid or ...?
 * Are we using data mining?

APC and APNI/APC web service requirements (from HISCOM point of view) (60 mins)

 * RESTful
 * Mapping (of alternative taxonomies) as a web service
 * ABRS ABIF/AFD development and their move to web services
 * VIP: Conservation Status in APC for proper function of AVH

Overview of ALA (60 mins)

 * HISCOMs requirements
 * Summarise previous discussions

(JRC; Cameron Slatyer)

Overview of (CERF) National Taxonomy Research Hub (NTR) (30 mins)
(JRC; Cameron Slatyer)

ASB L.A.S. Johnson Review of the AVH

 * Bill Barker invited to submit paper
 * Collaborative approach
 * Historical context
 * current state & vision

AVH/ALA interaction

 * security of data vis a vis State and Territory Conservation Status

ASBS Conference 2008 Adelaide

 * New tools in Systematics eg bioinformatics

Phrase Names

 * formatting of phrase names for undescribed taxa
 * assign 'hispid name' to oblivion

(Bill Barker)

Wind up

 * Complete minutes
 * Actions/Recommendations document