Mbirn: Updates

Teleconference regarding Ontology development: Behavioral Domain improvements. Angie Laird and Jessica Turner present.

Action Items:

1) Beginning with Attention and Working Memory as the areas to flesh out in the Behavioral domains: Ask the experts (A. Belger responded re: attention already), and check the textbooks (Jess). With an updated taxonomy (Angie), Angie can pull out papers previously stored as "Attention" and improve their descriptions (this is a long-term goal, not by April 29). This serves as another method of validation.

Note that dividing Attention into "voluntary" and "involuntary" allows the distinction between the FBIRN Phase I MMN and the FBIRN Phase II Oddball to be represented in this dimension.

2) Jess will do a search of UMLS on attention and working memory to get a handle on how those concepts are represented (or not). She is also in contact with the Ontology Task Force regarding the relationship between the BIRN HID and the Mediator and how the ontologies are accessed; this will affect how the taxonomy being developed here is used to best advantage.

3) Take an FBIRN Phase I analysis done in SPM (e.g., the MMN data for the two subjects at UCI) and represent the final results of one contrast in the BrainMap Submit method (Jess, then Angie). The current description was a quick toy based on an abstract notion of the experiment and not driven by an actual table of MNI-space maximal clusters.

3) David and Angela will review the XML/ENT modifications from 4/6/2005.

4) Next call Wed April 20 at 8:30 am PDT.

4/6/2005

David sent the XML schema description we agreed on; Angela augmented the project-level descriptions to fit the BrainMap descriptive schema.

3/22/2005
Meeting at the FBIRN AHM regarding ontologies and BrainMap interactions. See Experimental_Taxonomy_Discussion

3/17 and 3/18/2005
Meeting at UCI between FBIRN and the San Antonio BrainMap representatives. Attendants: Jessica Turner, David Keator, Angie Laird, Angela Uecker. See FBIRN:BrainMap Discussion.

3/7/2005
Ontology Task Force meeting in San Diego (Carol Bean, NCRR, Chair); each testbed is writing up notes on their experiences with/identified needs for ontologies, for a presentation to the BIRN Executive Committee. See FBIRN notes FBIRN:Ontology Notes March 2005

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