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 pepared 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