Flora of North America- FNA

PO-FNA webex meeting June 21st 2011

In attendance:

POC members: Laurel Cooper (OSU), Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU), Ramona Walls (NYBG).

Collaborators: James Macklin (institution; Flora of North America; james.macklin@gmail.com) and Hong Cui (University of Arizona; hong1.cui@gmail.com)

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1

HC: Their group is interested in text mining applications using the PO and TO.

ABI (?) proposal being papered to annotate the Flora of North America

Current project is in the 3rd year.

Taxonomic concepts

Develop software New applications

eg. published fact eg. accepted name and synonyms. Want to move from names to character spaces

RW: discrete characters or continuous? JM: encompass them all

Hong: List of terms from the literature:

Collaborator- (Bob Muller?) Looked through the PO and many were not there.

PJ: Can develop mapping file, need to look over list and determine if they are valid plant structure vs phenotype terms The FNA terms may match a PO term name, synonym, or may be considered for addition as a new term

HC: We have already extracted the plant structure terms from the phenotype terms

JM: Have a list or glossary of terms, of these about 30% have definitions.

HC: During the project, we will be discovering new terms on a daily basis- is it better to save and send them as a batch or individually? PO: Either is fine, good if we have background info on the terms, taxonomic characters, literature citations etc. Can you provide an examples of how it is used (ie: in a sentence)?

PJ: Character list: Can these go into the TO? PATO may be to general, they may not want to want ot add all our specific terns- may be useful for the upper levels though.

PO may consider a new ontology class- Plant Phenotype Ontology?  

The PO will refernce the ontology terms based to the FNA site through links, and provide examples of how it is used FNA could be added as a dbxref in the ontology and could also create a subset similar to the one for traitnet