# Agenda - Wednesday Oct 28 ## Central discussion points - How should crosstalk between Databases/Tools happen? - What can we do to make a start at improving the situation? - Focus on our synthesis project! ![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png) ## Existing efforts - EOL - tax data propagation - Jen - MAD - Will - traitdataform package - Florian - [ETS](https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/ETS/) - trait data standard - (Florian + Caterina) ## Additional points - Ontologies - Credit/References ## Organizational - [Mindmap](https://coggle.it/diagram/X5beII8kvh1_om2s/t/traits/7c6a1e3b6297e0f87b27e7755bca0f996f8f8b9c738e90d591bcc8811b0764c3) - How could we utilize student helpers (payed by iDiv)? - who is interested in vocabularies or dev efforts for APIs, etc.? - what would be useful tasks? - does anybody have a direct need?