Thursday May 21st, 2015

• Who:
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Zoom Connection Details: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/331293888

• Link to recording- Video: TBA
• Link to recording- Audio: TBA

A. General Comments and Updates:

Introductions:

Who: GG, PJ, LC, MAL, JE, JP, LC

Updates on new hires

- OSU hire- offer has been made, new person should join in late June or early July

- Aber hire- will help circulate

Plan for ontology workshop

- Involvement of Agmips, Agrovoc collaborators

Discussion about the Advisory Board

Suggestions:

• Ruth Bastow

• Sandy Knapp

• From BS: Suggest: Lynn Schriml, just named President of the Standards Consortium , (but I am not pressing on her behalf).

B. Update from IT group- Data Store, AmiGO2- Justin Elser

AmiGO 2 progress

• Working on creating an planteome importer owl file to simplify the loading of the ontologies via the golr Makefile. Working on a catalog xml file to redirect URI in the importer OWL.

• Troubleshooting issue with loading both the environment and trait ontologies where loading both causes the EO to disappear from AmiGO.

Git migration

• Trait ontology has been moved to git. Will move the rest after some more testing.

C. Update from AISO/BisQue group- Justin Preece:

New member

• Ryan Kitchen, CS Undergrad, Sinisa Todorovic's group

Software Specs

• Specification
• Phase I timeline

Big Data + Bio-image Workshop: May 14-15, UC-Santa Barbara