Ontology Working Group March 6th 2015

Friday March 6th

Agenda Items:

• Rosemary- Data Coordinator, CIMMYT
• Introduction to the working group, role?
• Presentation from Montpellier meeting
• Invite others from data management team?
• Introduction to the wheat and maize ontologies- status?
• * Under revision- currently cross-referencing to PO and TO
• * Collaborating with Mary Scheaffer
• Harmonization with the reference ontologies

• Question: How to best deal with units and scales?
  • Unit Ontology

• Crop Research Ontology- RS, being expanded to include the variables for environment and agronomy,
  • Needs to be harmonized with the EO and ENVO
  • How is it being used???

• planning a Protege/BFO online webinar-workshop?