SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20080222

Agenda: NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting

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Friday February 22, 2008: 2:30 -- 3:30 PM EST
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TCon Agenda

• Roll Call/Note-taker (Henry Chueh) (5 min)
• Minutes from most recent SDIWG tcon Nov 16, 2007 (5 min)
• NCBC All Hand Meeting, 2008. Planning & Brainstorm discussion (Peter, Karin, All)
• Status check on two working groups: Biositemaps Resourceome, Scientific Ontologies, NCBC Driving Biological Projects Interactions and Impact
• Demo on Biomedical Resource Ontology (NCBO staff) which is stable development environment for the BRO and repository in BioPortal. This is a key component of the Biositemaps effort.
• Upcoming meetings: AMIA translational, Zac, ...
• NCBC Consortium authorship policies (Peter; Open Discussion with output a list of bullet ideas)
• Discussion of Biositemaps white paper and of authorship (see more details in 'Appendix' below).
• Next 2 meeting dates set
• Questions/Information Sharing

Appendix: Biositemaps white paper

• Biositemaps Resourceome (Ivo Dinov, Daniel Rubin, Will Schroeder, Beth Kirschner, Karen Skinner, Zohara Cohen, Bill Bug, Peter Lyster)
  • 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: Long-term plan for maintenance of schema and resource ontology (hosting, versioning, ownership,...). Converge on contents of schema and resource ontology with appropriate parties. This will amount to a v1.0 release (i.e., figure out where to stop now and leave extensions to a later date). Resolve issues of locating the biositemaps content (hard-wired, crawl,...)
  • Status of the NCBC iTools, which is uses the biositemaps. (production) http://www.loni.ucla.edu/iToolssvc/ncbc_iTools.html/http://iTools.loni.ucla.edu and (dev) http://netulla.loni.ucla.edu:8080/iToolssvc/ncbc_iTools.html/http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/CCB/iTools.

Minutes

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

• Review of Sept 21, 2007 Minutes
• Attendees:
• Go over dates for next year's meetings:
  • AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, http://www.amia.org/inside/releases/2007/translationalbioinformaticssummit_pr2007.pdf, March 10-12 2008
  • Health Informatics April 11, 2008, Boston, MA - Health Informatics (Zak?) Need a link.
  • NCBC All Hands Meeting, date August 13-15, Bethesda
• SDWGI meets once every 3 months 11:30 AM (Pacific), third Fri of the month.