POC Conf. Call 7-28-10

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: July 28th, 2010 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators:

Acceptance of the minutes from the 7-21-10 meeting? All in favor?

Status and update of progress: PO Release

See the timeline and plan sent out 7-19-10 File:Plan PO Release (LC 7-19-10).pdf

1. July 21 POC Conference call - We will review and approve (or discuss) the most recent changes and all the Consortium members will be able to have a look at it before we send it out. At this point most the changes have been discussed on SourceForge and at the previous meetings already. Assuming there are no further major changes, we will proceed with getting it loaded onto the Beta browser (see below):

2. Notices will be posted on the PO mail lists: po-announce, po-dev, the PO web page and the Jaiswal lab web page that the beta version is available for review.

3. The documentation page will be posted on the POwiki page and the PO webpage with details of the changes made in the new release.

4. An announcement will be sent directly to the direct user groups listed on the 6-29-10 Conference Call page.

• TAIR
• NASC
• Gramene
• MaizeGDB Carolyn Lawrence
• VirtualPlant
• SoyBase Rex Nelson
• Genevestigator
• SGN Lukas Mueller+Naama Menda ?
• OryzaBase Yukiko Yamazaki?
• PlantTribes
• TraitNet
• Generation Challenge Program, CIMMYT, Mexico Rosemary Shrestha
• BRENDA
• UniProt

We need to identify who the are contact people at these groups.

5. Over the next ~ 3 weeks we will take feedback for our direct user groups- one of the ways will be through meetings and discussions at the ASPB and BSA meetings and through a feedback box on the PO-beta.plantontology.org page and of course, through emails. Note: We can use the same feedback page that is on the main PO site, we will ask Justin E to make a link to it from the header on beta.plantontology.org browser. The feedback box captures the context of the comment ( ie: which page you are looking at).

6. Aug 8-26- The beta version will be ready to send it out to our panel of experts and also to the user groups for final review. - The letter and review template will be sent out to the panel of experts (along with the user groups) that were identified on the 6-29-10 Conference Call . -Reviewers will be asked to send their comments by Aug 26th. This will give them about 2 weeks to respond. -We will follow the way the reviews were done in 2005, where the reviewers will be asked to look at specific sections or branches of the ontology. - Laurel will send out an email inquiry (copied to DWS and PJ) to the reviewers asking them if they would be willing to do it. -Once we all get back from vacation, we will make the required changes and prepare the release. (Ramona out Aug 20th- Sept 7th, Laurel out Aug 27th- Sept 8th, Pankaj gone Aug 11th- Sept 3rd)

To do: Identify reviewers for specific branches of the ontology:

-Potential reviewers: Sarah Hake, Quentin Cronk, Paula Rudall* (Kew Bot Garden), Sarah Matthews (Harvard), Elena Kramer (Harvard) Neelima Sinha (U C Davis), Chelsea Specht* (UC Berkeley), Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor), Peter Raven (MoBot) Gar Rothwell* (Ohio University), Peter Linder* (Switzerland), Chris Hardy* (Millersville University), Rob Last (trichomes)

(*)plant anatomy experts

7. Update documentation on web page and wiki:

-what we did and why we did it

-highlight things we want people to review

-wiki page has been created. We will load documentation of changes as we go along.

8. Week of Sept 9th-15th - Laurel and Ramona will compile the feedback and comments from expert reviewers and user groups, make final changes, complete any additional documentation needed. Sept 15th- Release live version Mid Oct: Submit update paper to Plant Physiology as discussed at 6-29-10 Conference Call .

Merging files for dev and beta browsers

We discussed merging the developers files (currently po_anatomy_test.obo and po_temporal_test.obo) into one editors file. Once we do this and start making edits to it, it will be inconvenient to have separate the files again (but possible, since they will still have separate name spaces).

Is it okay to go ahead and make the merge?

Once files are merged, we will be able to make relation between temporal and structural anatomy.

Should this be done before the beta release?

Rename beta version file po_anatomy_beta or similar. Link title

Next meeting scheduled for: Weds, Aug 11th, 10am

No meeting on August 4th, since most everyone will be traveling. What is everyone's schedule for August?