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# System prepended metadata

title: Agenda - Wednesday Oct 28

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# 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?


