Agenda for 8/9 Meeting

Draft Agenda for 8/9 meeting (derived from action items from 7/27 meeting)

• Planing for Thursday, Oct. 20 - the external day.

What do we need to do now for: 1)Society for Neuroscience 2)Report on GCRC interaction, and followup 3) Developing an overall plan for BIRN external interactions, including calendar of conferences and workshops BIRN ought to be involved with.

• Report from testbeds on figuring out who needs to be at AHM and who ought to be in what Working Groups. Also, includes update on SurveyMonkey registration.

The deadline for this is Aug. 15

• Report on Working Group assignments on 3-5 page paper. These are due: 9/1

• Update on leaders of the WGs:

Database: TBD Portal/Visualization: TBD Workflow: Shawn Murphy Ontologies: Maryanne Martone/Carol Bean

• Report on BIRN-wide list of visualization tools.

Links to tools will be put on the visualization/portal wiki as an interim step.

• Recommendation on Imaging Calibration. Need to decide how intense these activities need to be. Is this a complete working group track or something less intense? Deadline for this is Aug. 15. (Jorge will track to see if they think this can be elevated to Working Group.)

• Recommendation for Stats/Datamining. Deadline for this is Aug.15.

(Jessica is tracking.)

• Recommendation on Human/Mouse integration. Deadline for this is Aug. 5. (Joe is organizing a conference call.)