Planteome Curator workshop Fall 2015

Discussions from 9-15-15 Ontology WG meeting:

Goals of the meeting

• Who should attend: Planteome Ontology team: developers and software team and experts from various crops

1. Strategic Planning

• Goal: Form a strategic plan on how to build each ontology and how they fit together in the Planteome
• Who: Core Ontology Working Group:
  • PJ, LC, AM, JE, DWS, CM, BS, EA, MAL, GG, SC

2. GitHub, TermGenie and Protege Training

• Lead by Chris Mungall, Marie-Angelique can assist
• Goal: Train curators in using the GitHub Repositories and Protege software for ontology curation

• Who: Ontology Curators
  • Planteome team: LC, AM, MAL, NYBG postdoc?, GG postdoc?, OSU undergrad students- Megan and Ethan
  • Which of the CO curators are ready to be involved in ontology development??

3. Ontology Curation and Data Annotation

• Planteome Vision: Distributed ontology development and maintenance
• Wants a group of ontology developers to meet face-to-face
• Get curators together for some hands-on development and Data Annotation

• 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 (?)
    • Rex Nelson, "peanut guy"
  • tubers- cassava, potato
  • rice
  • maize- curators from CIMMYT- Rosemary?
  • wheat- curators from CIMMYT- ??

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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