Flora of North America- FNA

PO-FNA webex meeting June 21st 2011

In attendance:

POC members: Laurel Cooper (OSU), Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU), Ramona Walls (NYBG).

Collaborators: James Macklin (institution; Flora of North America; james.macklin@gmail.com) and Hong Cui (University of Arizona; hong1.cui@gmail.com)

HC: Their group is interested in text mining applications using the PO and TO.

ABI (?) proposal being pepared to annotate the Flora of North America

Current project is in the 3rd year.

Taxonomic concepts

Develop software New applications

eg. published fact eg. accepted name and synonyms. Want to move from names to character spaces

RW: discrete characters or continuous? JM: encompass them all

Hong: List of terms from the literature:

Collaborator- (Bob Muller?) Looked through the PO and many were not there.

PJ: Can develop mapping file, need to look over list and determine if they are valid plant structure vs phenotype terms

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