Crop Plant Trait Ontology Workshop Agenda

Dates: Sept 13-15th, 2012 (Thursday through Saturday)

Location: Oregon State University

Weds Sept. 12th, 6-8pm

Dinner at a local venue for those who arrive early

Snack and refreshments will be available at Finley Hall or Arnold dining center will be open until 7pm

Thursday Sept. 13th- 8am to 9pm

Location: CH2M Hill Alumni Center Williamette Room

• 8am- 9am Continental Breakfast

• 9-9:15am Welcome and Introductions of the organizing Committee - Pankaj Jaiswal, OSU

• 9:15am- 9:30am Ruth Bastow: Insights and follow-up from EBI Crop Ontology Meeting

• 9:30-10 Intro to the PO and the TO- Laurel Cooper

• 10:30- 10:45 Coffee break

• 10:45-11:15 Biological examples and ontology Applications

• 11:15- 11:30 Naama Menda- Sol Genomics

• 11:30-11:45- Rex Nelson- SoyBase

• 11:45-12- Mary Schaeffer- MaizeGDB

• 12:00-1:00pm Lunch

• 2:45-3:00 coffee break

• Work on Goal 2 as a group

• breakout groups

• Flash presentations by participants

• dinner

• Evening group work on applications- breakout groups

Friday Sept 14th- all day

Intro to Annotations and Data

Webex presentation Barry Smith; Ontology site, Department of Philosophy site

Work on Goal 3 as a group

breakout groups

Lunch

breakout groups report on progress

Work on Goal 4 as a group

breakout groups

breakout groups report on progress

dinner

Sat Sept. 15th- 8am to 12 noon

breakout groups report on progress- present project ideas?

Summary and conclusions

Wrap and to-do lists for follow-up