Ontology Working Group Meeting, Tuesday April 7th, 2015

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Topics for today:

1. Updates on hiring etc

At the Crop Ontology in Montpellier, the postdoctoral position has been offered to Marie Angelique Laporte. She will probably join the team around mid April. OSU- review of applicants is underway NYBG- no report as yet

2. Guidelines for writing good definitions- Barry Smith Barry presented a short slide set- see attached: outlining the best practices for ontology design and writing definitions. - need for genus- differentia format, single parentage of terms - proposed idea for TO: 2 versions: - editors version "asserted"- species neutral and widely applicable - public/ live version- "inferred" version- containing the species specific definitions


3. Finalizing the response to Clement and Pierre - clarified a few points, EA will send out tomorrow

4. Leo- update on revisions to Rice Trait Ontology, issues with using SVN - working with RSH, but he is quite busy - EA sent RSH the name of person who might be able to help- Berta? - trouble shooting issues of SVN access with JE, possible call on THurs am if still on going

  • discussion about how to deal with the revising on definitions in the CGIAR ontologies- current definitions are displayed in the Fieldbook and are in there format that the breeders are used to. Could we possibly have an additional field for the " ontology definition" ?


5. Plans for Trait Ontology revisions, work on CGIAR wheat and maize trait ontology

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