Ontology Working Group Meetings- Jan 2015
Who: EA, LC and PJ
Points of Discussion:
1. Planteome wiki set up
- will add EA and others on her team as needed..
- Will be closed, will have to login to access
2. Interaction with DivSeek.
- Ruth Bastow is on the board and is interested in coordinating between the projects. DivSeek is a partnership, advisory board role may create COI?
3. Scientific Advisory Board- will have info on the wiki- create page for Scientific Advisory Board
- Oversight, annual report, meeting in person or online
- advocates to community, users and funding agencies
- possibly representative from CG centers such as RH, PK
4. Prioritizing the CO vocabularies for cross referencing and curator training
- Rice- IRRI is shorthanded right now, possible person is Berta Miro- associated with IRRI (Ajay Kohli)
- Maize and wheat - CIMMYT- Rosemary; Project already underway with LC + Mary Schaeffer
- WheatIS and WDIWG of the RDA- interested in using ontologies and setting standards
- Soybean- USDA Rex Nelson
- Potato - CIP Reinhard, Richard Finkers (also other solanaceae)
5. Planning is starting for Ontology Workshop in the Spring
- Owl training, etc
- more details TBA as they develop
6. Collaboration possibilities with PL, AV and CJ, from IRD in Montpellier
- CJ will be in Stanford this spring, has money for a postdoc for a year which will go away without a project.
- Southgreen platform, involvement with 3000 rice genomes project
- Semantic integration
To-do: create page for Scientific Advisory Board, Ontology Workshop