Planteome Curator workshop Fall 2015
Discussions from 9-15-15 Ontology WG meeting:
Goals of the meeting: Strategic planning, and ontology curation, and Protege training
- Strategic Planning- Core Ontology Working Group
- Form a strategic plan on how to build each ontology and how they fit together
- Ontology Curation
- Protege Training- Lead by Chris Mungall
- Can be just for curators without preexisting training
- Get curators together for some hands-on development
- Who should attend: Planteome Ontology team: developers and software team and experts from various crops: e.g. Medicago, soybean, legume
* PJ's vision: Distributed ontology development and maintenance - Wants a group of ontology developers to meet face-to-face - Possible Ontology Developers- collaborators to be included:
- Based on areas of focus- maybe a dedicated group for each crop group?
- legumes- soybean, Medicago, peanut, lentils (?)
- tubers- cassava, potato
- rice
- maize
- wheat
- Which of the curators from the CO ready to be involved in ontology development??
Logistics:
- Planned to be in Corvallis- plan to fly into Portland (PDX) ~1.5hrs drive, or Eugene (EUG) ~ 50 mins drive
- Dates: October-November- "2-3 days(core), with a few days more for outside ontologists"
- Doodle poll will be circulated (LC)
- Barry: "Any 3 days in Nov 3-16 would work (this includes 2 half days for travel), preferred in Nov 4-15"
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