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- Met with Val Tannen and Bill Piel, concerning the ToL Visualization proposal. Laid the very basic groundwork for data integration. Got copy of Encyclopedia of Life proposal. Must snail-mail a copy to you due to security constraints of writers. Goals of their visualization group similar to ours. Should free up some of our resources if it gets funded (don't don’t know when it will get funded, possibly October). We perhaps shouldn't shouldn’t get too gung-ho with our visualization group until we know the status of this proposal.
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- First steering committee meeting today at 2pm.
- Andy - – AP Web - – Not sure of APWeb's APWeb’s goal/vision. They can continue to use the tools they are comfortable with and we can make it look nice to the outside world. It would be in the best interest to get them to use XML or Phylo XML. If they want to go with facading over what looks like services and then adoption a more support XML dialect, they should be able to achieve that with a grad student (? mo) and 1/3 developer. They are expected to be provided with these two staff members in addition to the XML back-end. We are not sure what they want (web services?), no user cases. They were very please with what they had at the iPToL kickoff. It looks like they need a new user interface. This is a proposal that came in from Soltis to be an EOT activity in connection with iPToL.
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