DiGIR INSTALLATION WORKSHOP

San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA
February 18-19, 2003

Tuesday

8:00 AM

Shuttle to Campus

8:30 AM

Welcome & Overview -- Stan Blum

8:45 AM

The Species Analyst (DiGIR's roots) -- Dave Vieglais

• The Protocol: Z39.50
• The Federation Schema: "Darwin Core"
• Impact: TSA portal, Fishnet, ITIS*CA portal

9:10 AM

Rationale for DiGIR -- Stan Blum

• Parallel networks and the challenge to TDWG-ABCD
• Overview of DiGIR architecture
• Darwin Core Ver. 2

9:30 AM

The DiGIR Protocol -- Dave Vieglais

• Metadata Request & Response
• Data Request
• Data Responses

9:55 AM

MaNIS, the first DiGIR network -- Stan Blum

• Collaborative georeferencing
• MaNIS demo

10:10 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM

Networks and Projects (potential DiGIR implementations)

• MapSTeDI -- Aaron Reeves & David Neufeld
• SALVIAS -- Mike Weiser
• TSA Canada, CBIF -- Derek Munro
• OBIS -- Jeremy Bartley
• VPlants -- Joanna McCaffrey
• PBIN -- Richard Pyle

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Creating a DiGIR Provider Installation -- Dave Vieglais

• Provider
  • Web Server
  • PHP and additional modules
• Configuring Resources
  • Connecting to a live DB
  • Staging a query-optimized copy

3:00 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM

XML basics -- Dave Thau

Configuration Files and Configuration Tools -- Dave Thau

4:00 PM

Managing Schema Evolution -- Stan Blum

• Darwin Core V2 + specialized extensions
• The ABCD Schema

5:00 PM

Mixer

6:30 PM

Dinner

8:30 PM

Shuttle back to Residence Inn

Wednesday

8:00 AM

Shuttle to Campus

8:30 AM

Related Projects and Organizations

• LifeMapper -- Greg Vorontsov
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility -- Stan Blum

10:00 AM

Coffee

10:30 AM

Future of DiGIR -- Moderated Discussion

• Current limitations
• Planned enhancements
• DiGIR for images (e.g., E-Types)
• Observations and abundance monitoring
• Georeferencing
• Mapping

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Informal Discussions