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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Save the date for the next SDWIG tcon/Connect, three months from now: Friday December 19, 2008

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)
• Explicitely define Tiger Team:
• 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) which is encapsulated in the Biositemaps Editor. Please try it out.
    • Peter Lyster's 8 Action Items (August 2008)
    • 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 (Needs Updating) presents description of prototype for distributed architecture to address

• locating,
• querying,
• composing or combining, and
• mining software tools and information resources on the Internet.