Conf. call with IDO 3-23-12

Friday, March 23, 2012, 2PM ET

Agenda/minutes for conference call with PO and IDO curators.

In attendance:

Back to Plant Disease Ontology main page.

Possible topics:

• OWL versus OBO
• how to keep PD-IDO in sync with IDO
• linking to TO
• generalizing IDO definitions to cover plants
• versioning and ontology release policies
• where to keep wiki pages (part of PO wiki or its own wiki?)

Questions arising from reviews

Real data or problems in modeling disease

Is there an example/data set we can use as a test case?

access to ontology

Set up SVN site for draft on PO SVN?

Problematic terms from IDO

"The authors point out that the use of ‘clinical’ in OGMS / IDO and the definition of ‘symptom’ are problematic when building a plant disease ontology. This is (to me) one of the most interesting aspects of the paper. Have the authors tried to come up with more general definitions that would be universally applicable? Or is this not possible (why not)? It seems that the present structure works well for the plant ontology regardless, so I am not asking to revise the decision to build on OGMS / IDO. Rather I would be interested in a more detailed treatment of these problematic areas."

Relations

"Several of the IDO-PD relations sound like they should be in IDO proper. Will they be communicated back? It also seems that these relations are “shortcut relations” for more complex constructs in BFO/RO. Have the authors explored making this connection explicit?"