POC Conf. Call 10-20-10

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Oct 20th, 2010 10am (PDT)

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Acceptance of the minutes from the 10-13-10 meeting?

PO slims

GO includes reduced versions of their ontologies (Go slims) for some user groups. The slims are developed and maintained by the users, but publicly accessible as part of the GO flat file. We have one user group (TraitNet) that is interested in creating a PO slim. This is basically done by creating a subset, which can then be extracted to make a smaller file.

The problem with users creating and maintaining subsets, is that whenever the plant_ontology file changes, their file will become out of date. This problem can be overcome if we maintain the subset within the main plant_ontology file.

We need to decide if we want to include users subsets in the PO flat file, and if we want to have any other policies regarding slims. For example, GO also maintains a generic slim. PO has a 'reference plant structure' subset, but we have not been maintaining it.

We need to decide asap about whether or not to maintain Traitnet's subset, because they are beginning work on it now.