POC Conf. Call 9-10-13

POC meeting, Skype Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Sept 10th, 2013 10am PST/1pm EST

In attendance:

Absent:

- please see the Items_for_future_meetings page, will be moved here before the meeting

NSF PI meeting Sept 4th-6th in DC

• PJ and DWS attended

Any news?

OBO Foundry Review of Plant Ontology

• Principle 1: The Ontology is Open

Some improvement desirable

"The self-review states that the PO is released under a Creative Commons license. However, it is not specified which Creative Commons license has been chosen. The ontology file does not contain a statement about the license or the policy for reuse of the ontology. However, the information is available on the website e.g. at http://plantontology.org/docs/otherdocs/principles_rationales.html: Plant Ontology by Plantontology.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License."

"We recommend that the exact license chosen be included in an additional ontology annotation in the ontology file."

"According to the OBO Foundry principle 1 documentation, this should make use of two annotations using the following properties:

• dc:license
• rdfs:comment

The license type goes in the dc:license field. The mode of attribution goes in the rdfs:comment field. "

"While 'Creative Commons 3.0 CC-by license' is recommended, this is not mandatory and therefore the chosen attribution-noderivs license is also compatible with the Open principle. However, we urge you to consider weakening the license to one that encourages sharing and reuse without constraint to further the adoption by the community and the value of the resource for the community."

* Principle 2: Common Format

Pass

The ontology is available in both OBO and OWL formats. It should be noted that the OBO form of the ontology contains semantics which are not yet available in the OWL form (i.e. the treat-xrefs-as-isa and treat-xrefs-as-genus-differentiae constructs). These are supported by the Oort release manager and can be instantiated in OWL versions of the ontology. See https://code.google.com/p/owltools/wiki/OortOptions

leaf development stage (PO:0001050)

• See Google Doc for revisions in progress. Need to open trackers for these.

Upcoming meetings and Presentations 2013-2014:

• The Plant Genomics Congress USA, St Louis, September 23rd & 24th, 2013

No one from PO is planning to attend

• PAG 2014 January 11-15, 2014 - San Diego, CA, USA

• • PJ has been contacted by PAG organizers; Suggest slightly new focus "Plant Ontologies and Systems Biology"
  • Ideas for speakers- someone from GO and others?>>

• • Registration is now open: PAG 2014. Early reg'n till Nov. 1st

Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Sept 24th, 2013 at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern

-MAG has requested the meeting be moved to 10:30am Pacific/1:30 pm Eastern- would that works for the others in the group?