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 distributed architecture for . Further postings will be made at the NCBC portal at (www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/)
    • NCBC Ontology of Resources (validated in relation to NIRTC; need to improve the node descriptions of the current Resourceome Ontology (http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/SoftwareOntology/);
    • Status of the NCBC iTools (http://www.loni.ucla.edu/iToolssvc/ncbc_iTools.html)
      • BioSiteMaps.XML/CompBiome.XML – Update on framework for de-centralized communication and utilization of the NCBC Resources (http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/CCB/NCBC_ToolIntegration_XMLtology_Meeting_103106_ResourceDef).
      • iTools plug-ins: Dedicated crawler vs. Google search
    • White Paper(s) (BioSiteMaps/iTools)
    • NCBC Resourceome WG Liaisons (Please update these, if appropriate!)
  • 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.)
   • Ivo Dinov and Peter Lyster summarized ...
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