From deanne at sonomaecologycenter.org  Mon Feb 19 16:57:34 2007
From: deanne at sonomaecologycenter.org (Deanne DiPietro)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:57:34 -0800
Subject: [Northbay-content] This week's Content Comm. meeting
Message-ID: <7EC12973-05EF-46C4-9B9E-C35DAFE442B6@sonomaecologycenter.org>

Hello Content Committee members,

Would you think terribly less of me if I were to cancel this month's  
meeting (Feb 21)? I find I'm needing to focus on other projects and  
lack the time to coordinate us effectively and make the best use of  
your time. Perhaps we can do a double meeting next month (Mar 28,  
with the Developers mtg) if there is interest.

Thank you for understanding.

Some brief updates:

- Our name is now the San Francisco Bay Area Conservation Commons. We  
have a new domain, calconservationcommons.net, anticipating a future  
California Conservation Commons with our region as one of many.

- We had a Steering Committee meeting in January- please see notes on  
the SFBACC portal at
http://sfbayarea.calconservationcommons.net/committees/steering- 
committee/.

- Since then our developers have made further progress on the  
aggregation of our Project Description data. Check out the SFBACC  
Data Catalogs page, which gives you several options of different  
software we have developed and are testing for searching, linking,  
presenting, and editing the metadata. Perusing the metadata, from  
eight source databases, in these different ways is very interesting  
and will undoubtedly give us a lot of ideas about what we want next,  
in terms of functionality and content.

Remember that talking on the listserv is a good way to collaborate,  
and your comments and discussions are archived. Your impressions  
about the newly visible metadata and the way the applications look  
and work would be great to hear. I was thinking that for one of our  
next meetings a demo from the lead developers of the innovations they  
are working on would help us all to understand the valuable work  
being done. What do you think about that?

Deanne


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Deanne DiPietro
GIS & Information Services Program Manager
Sonoma Ecology Center
(707) 996-0712 Ext. 114