HISCOM Teleconference March 2008

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The HISCOM Teleconference for March 2008 was held on Wednesday 19 March at 13:00 AEDT.

(Agenda was moved to the Talk page.)

1 ALA-supported Web Services
2 Timing of HISCOM and TDWG
3 AVH 2
4 Doing queries of AVH from a list of names

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ALA-supported Web Services

BioCASe
TapirLink
ALA's own?

EOL having meeting in Woods Hole in a few weeks' time.

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Timing of HISCOM and TDWG

TDWG is happening from Sunday 19 to Saturday 25 October 2008. A Phylocode meeting is being organised around TDWG. All of HISCOM should attend TDWG, if possible. How can we get everyone here, but not wear everyone out too.

Field trips and other items will get in the way of HISCOM.
One day meeting at most, and keep the agenda to the critical items.
Get standard HISCOM business out of the way using teleconferences.
HISCOM meeting could occur prior to TDWG. (TDWG planning could get in the way.)
FCIG (Faunal Collections Informatics Group) need to be encouraged to attend TDWG too.
HISCOM phone hookup prior to TDWG will resolve HISCOM-specific issues.
Greg has made a request to Donald to support a meeting of HISCOM members with Donald to sort out AVH issues. July might be appropriate.
CHAH meeting -- 25-26 September 2008.
Visitors may want to visit Australian institutions to help substantiate their travel claims. Action: Alex to put a note on TDWG about contacting us ahead of time.

Resolution: July meeting of HISCOM funded by ALA, teleconference around 13 October, 1-dayer around 27 October, dinner sometime during TDWG with FCIG.

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AVH 2

Need to get AVH 2 released.
Need to test the functionality (post-Darwin tests)
- Bill seeking to employ a graduate botanist to help collate the remaining issues. Then Rex Croft will assist SAPAC with implementing the required changes.
HISCOM institutions need to update their static data dumps in consultation with Shunde.
Funding won't come from DEWHA until the AVH 2 is released
Get a proposal to CHAH on the issue of employing Rex
Action: All HISCOM members to collate and document the issues in the wiki. Recommendation: (Peter) Develop a proposal to CHAH to support AD to employ 2 people (1 person for 5 days, and 1 person in 3 days) to document and resolve the issues preventing the AVH release.
Letter case changes for country name and state, e.g. "Australia" vs. "AUSTRALIA" should happen in filter software or in the AVH itself, not in the source database*, because letter case is not data it is formatting. (* This is Ben's point of view)