SDIWG:Action Items 20081121

This is a list of current items engaged in by

As of 20081121 the following is active list

• NCBC Team
  • codify API (Csongr-Beth-Ivo)
  • document knowledge of Google access to Biositemaps corpus and other access issue
  • agree on official location of BRO and IM and easily accessible functions to download them
  • finalize process for forward compatibility of BRO and IM (deprecation etc...) (Csongor-Beth)
  • get back to NCBC liaisons and expose biositemaps consistently to the Internet
  • get iTools to consume biositemaps corpus (Ivo)
  • get BioPortal to consume biositemaps corpus
  • modify the BioPortal to index biositemaps corpus over more than BRO--see Beth's API (Csongor-Beth)

• NCBC-CTSA Team
  • harmonize BRO-IM with CTSA IM, resolve 'priority area' fields. Overall goal is improve biositemaps as format for exchanging information about resources, and reuse tools (Technical Tiger Team: Beth, Csongor, Kevin,...)