SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20080919
Contents
NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting
Notes
Friday September 19, 2008: 2:30-3:30 PM EST
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SDIWG Meetings Page
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)
- Status check on three working groups:
- State of Biositemaps and Biositemaps white paper v4.0 (Peter, Ivo, Daniel) and Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)
- Questions/Information Sharing
- From June 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 June 20, 2008 Minutes
- Attendees:
- Biositemaps Resourceome Update
- Scientific Ontologies Update
- Driving Biological Projects and Impact Update
- Meeting Schedule:
Action Items
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
