SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20071116

Agenda: NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting

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Notes

Friday, November 16, 2007: 2:30 -- 3:30 PM EST
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TCon Agenda

• Roll Call/Note-taker (Ivo Dinov) (5 min)

• Minutes from most recent SDIWG tcon Sept 21, 2007 (5 min)

• Progress in three working groups
  • Biositemaps Resourceome (Ivo Dinov, Daniel Rubin, Will Schroeder, Beth Kirschner, Karen Skinner, Zohara Cohen, Bill Bug, Peter Lyster, 15 min)
    • The biositemaps white paper presents description of prototype for distributed architecture to address (i) locating, (ii) querying, (iii) composing or combining, and (iv) mining software tools and information resources on the Internet. Each site which intends to contribute to the inventory instantiates a file on its Internet site ‘biositemap.xml’ which conforms to a defined schema and is tagged by a resource ontology. The prototype schema may be found at http://www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/biositemaps-v04.xsd A good reference for XML editors is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml_editor e.g., we are using XMLmind. The prototype resource ontology may be found at http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/SoftwareOntology/
    • Further postings will be made at the NCBC portal at http://www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/
    • TBD: Converge on contents of schema and resource ontology with appropriate parties. Resolve issues of locating the biositemaps (hard-wired, crawl,...)
    • Status of the NCBC iTools, which is uses the biositemaps. http://www.loni.ucla.edu/iToolssvc/ncbc_iTools.html
  • Scientific Ontologies (Zak Kohane, Mark Musen, Brian Athey, and Suzi Lewis, 15 min)
    • enter draft agenda items here
  • NCBC Driving Biological Projects Interactions and Impact (Aris Floratos, Brian Athey, Russ Altman, 15 min)
    • Progress on AMIA panels this month and in March.

Minutes

Note taker: (Ivo Dinov)

• Review of Sept 21, 2007 Minutes

1. Attending:
2. Biositemaps, Resourceome, and iTools (Ivo Dinov et al.)
3. Scientific Ontologies (Zak Kohane, et al.)
4. DBP Interactions (Gil Omenn et al.)

Attendees

• Note-taker: [Suggested order of note takers for future meetings: Dinov (this one); Chueh; Sherman; Schroeder; Floratos; Rubin; Jags]

Action Items