Ontology Working Group March 6th 2015

Friday March 6th

Agenda Items: Who: EA, LC, BS, CM, along with new folks: Rosemary Shrestha, Léo Valette, (both from the CGIAR)

• Introduction to the working group: Léo Valette- New Crop Ontology curator at the Crop Ontology team in Montpellier, thanks to the allocation of an 2015 IBP grant.
  • Role- Léo will collaborate with each crop curator and with Julian Pietragalla (IBP) to maintain quality Trait Dictionaries for the Breeding Management System and expend the Crop Ontology to new crops. This work will also benefit the NSF-awarded project 'Planteome'. Léo will provide help desk for the use of the TD Template, trait alignment and the use of the web site. Léo is already well known from some of you as last year he contributed to the feasibility study about integrating Participatory Varietal Selection methods in the Crop Ontology.

• 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?