PO PlantSystematics conference call 10-21-11

Meeting to discuss technical issues of linking between PO and PS.org.

JP: no way of automatically putting in links to keywords automatically

PJ: if we had a list of keywords, we can create a mapping and just maintain that

Mapping should be hosted on PO SVN site. We have a mappings folder already.

Kevin can have access to this

If an image on PS.o has an association to PO, we can have an automatic association

Mapping: connect to 1000 image for petal. Don't want to create xrefs for all of them.

Contributors don't always put in keywords. could have students etc. upgrade that

KN create a table of keywords and ID, we keep them updated with our list of ids

Can't do boolean search, but we could send him list of words which he could then split out and turn into wildcards to separate terms. No need for any additional association file or mappings.

KN could add flag to images. We could click on which images we want.

We have two needs: 1. link to images from PO 2. link all PSO images to PO IDs.

We are trying to encourage people to use standard vocabulary.

Could begin mappings, but still have fuzzy search that will complement this.

PJ: we are working on software to build sectors on images and automatically identify what is on image based on a library.

KN: First step is to implement a search that is sufficient given existing data structure, then move toward system that integrates PO by downloading a table from PO that integrates with his terms.

KN can start by sending us a list of his keywords. But many of them won't be relevant for PO.

Need a mechanism in place so that additions and changes are updated automatically as much as possible.

RW and KN can start with only terms associated with ie flower and leaf to see how far we can extend from there.

Start by getting keywords from KN and doing a candidate mapping.

Standard format of mapping file is on SVN -- we will use same format.

We are using UTF8 (not unicode) - current AmiGO is UTF, but we may go to unicode

FAO is translating ontology into different languages.

IP will be moving, so we want to stick with www.plantsystematics domain - going onto gigabit

Could start with all images that have keyword flower and any keyword associated with it.

Because he is using frames will have to something

KN: list of keywords, work on search function and give us a different url for it.

We will send a list of words, delimited however we want (& or whatever) and KN will write a query that takes those and do a fuzzy search on them then (he has something like this he has already used for taxonomic names - works with missing letter and internal errors - can transfer this over to keyword search, even though he hasn't done it yet)

Will need to figure out what delimiter to use to separate words: e.g., stamen&anther&filament

May want to have something like po_word:something;taxon:something

We can always add other variables later when want.

May need to think about window dimension later, if we can incorporate a popup from PO site.