POC Conf. Call 8-18-10

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POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Aug 18th, 2010 10am (PDT)

In attendance:

POC members:

Absent:

Collaborators:


Acceptance of the minutes from the 8-11-10 meeting? All in favor?



Status and Update of Progress: PO Release

. Beta Browser is Up!- Notices sent out and posted:

Aug 2010 Beta PO.

A. Notices posted on "What's New" on both the live site and the dev site and on the Jaiswal Lab web page.

  • Should also be on the Beta site- when we update it next time* Post updated version of index.html to beta branch

B. Announcements sent to: po-dev, po-announce, po-internal.

C. Announcement for Plant Sciences Bulletin: Note that this is not for the beta version but the live version due to the timing. Sent to PJ for review 8/12/10

Dennis will also send this to the BSA for posting on their website.

Announcements sent to user groups

  • TAIR email: curator@arabidopsis.org
  • NASC sent to: email: bioinfo@arabidopsis.info

(not really clear who to send it to here)

  • MaizeGDB Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Schaeffer, Jack Gardiner. No generic contact address
  • PlantTribes Sent to: PI: Claude dePamphilis (Penn State) cwd3@psu.edu
  • BAR Sent to Nicholas Provert and Rohan Patel

Feedback on the Beta Release

A. Feedback Box:

New link to feedback box on beta site- emails will go to po-internal

  • We can customize this with additional fields and boxes for more directed responses


B. Response emails

On the notices, we ask the users to respond to po-dev@plantontology. Do we really want people responding to po-dev??

That goes out to 68 people, many of who, I suspect would rather not take part in lengthy discussions of user feelings about the ontologies. Maybe we should set up a new email such as po-feedback that would just go to the internal group?

(Note: We need to define the function of each of the mailing lists: po, po-dev, po-announce, po-internal). I think po-announce, po-internal are fine, but what are the other 2 supposed to be for?

Annotations that have no term associated with them

-Laurel compiled a list of the terms that have been obsoleted and how many annotations that are associated with them.

There were only 11 and only 5 of them are problematic: floral bud, gametophyte, leaf whorl, seedling and sporophyte. File:Obseleted terms (LC 8-10-10).pdf



PO:0009003: sporophyte 117:

po_anatomy_gene_arabidopsis_tair.assoc

po_anatomy_gene_oryza_gramene.assoc

po_anatomy_qtl_oryza_gramene.assoc


PO:0000056: floral bud 54:

po_anatomy_gene_arabidopsis_tair.assoc


PO:0009004:gametophyte 1:

po_anatomy_gene_oryza_gramene.assoc


PO:0008034: leaf whorl 15802:

po_anatomy_gene_arabidopsis_tair.assoc


PO:0008037: seedling 16:

po_anatomy_gene_arabidopsis_tair.assoc

  • We discussed possibly re-configuring the PO web page so that more information shows up for each annotation, so it is clearer to the users how annotations differ from one another- tabled for later after the release comes out.

We discussed whether or not it would be better for the user groups who made the annotations to decide where to move the terms we are uncertain about. In any case, we will need to prepare a list for them including the terms that were moved automatically (because there was only one replacement term), and our suggestions for terms that could be replaced by multiple terms. They will need to approve any movement of annotations.

Documentation page

Posted on the POwiki page and the PO webpage with details of the changes made in the new release.

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

Ramona and Lol will discuss what needs to go on this page, and get it posted.

Contacting user groups:

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Contacting potential Reviewers:

Next meeting scheduled for: Weds, Aug 25th, 10am