Ontology Working Group Meetings- Jan 2015

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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