SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20080919

NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting

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Notes

Friday September 19, 2008: 2:30-3:30 PM EST
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Tcon Agenda

• Roll Call/Note-taker (Will Schroeder) (5 min)
• Minutes from most recent SDIWG tcon May 16, 2008 (5 min)
• Debrief NCBC All Hands Meeting, August 13-15, 2008. Logistics, Planning & Brainstorming discussion (Peter, Karin, All)
• Status check on three working groups:
  • Biositemaps Resourceome
    • State of Biositemaps. The underlying technology for Biositemaps is the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) and the Information Model (IM)
    • Plans for adoption within and beyond NCBCs.
    • Biositemaps white paper v4.0 (Needs Updating: Peter, Ivo, Daniel).
  • Scientific Ontologies
  • NCBC Driving Biological Projects Interactions and Impact
• Questions/Information Sharing
• From May 16 SDIWG, any progress on: Setting up a booth at the annual neuroscience meeting. There’s great interest in the tools being developed. If agenda for meeting isn’t set, holding a session to talk about the tools would be even more effective

Minutes

• Note taker: [Suggested order of note takers for future meetings: Will Schroeder (this one); Floratos; Rubin; Jags, Dinov, Murphy, Ku]
• Review of May 16, 2008 Minutes
• Attendees:
• Biositemaps Resourceome Update
• Scientific Ontologies Update
• Driving Biological Projects and Impact Update
• Meeting Schedule:

Appendix: Biositemaps white paper

The biositemaps Biositemaps white paper v4.0 presents description of prototype for distributed architecture to address

• locating,
• querying,
• composing or combining, and
• 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/.

• The Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) (see BRO Requirements document) is an extensible terminology for online electronic resources, intended to be an enabling technology for tools which improve query and access to online resources.
• Further postings will be made at the NCBC portal at http://www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/
• Status of the NCBC iTools, which is uses the biositemaps. http://iTools.loni.ucla.edu