GCP Crop Ontology Workshop
20 – 22 April, 2009, Bioversity-Rome, Italy
Agenda

Monday, April 20, 2009 – Welcome and Plenary Talk

09:00 - 09:15 Introduction
Elizabeth Arnaud, Bioversity International
Logistics
Audrey Chaunac, Bioversity International

09:15 - 09:30 Feedback from Biocuration meeting, Berlin
Elizabeth Arnaud, Bioversity International
09:30 - 10:00 Semantic Technologies at FAO
Johannsen, Gudrun; Sini, Margherita (KCEW), FAO
10:00 - 10:30 Plant and Trait Ontology
Chih-Wei Tung, Cornell University, Ithaca

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 An overview of the GCP Crop Ontology
Rosemary Shrestha, CIMMYT

11:30 - 1:45 Report on the technical development for crop ontology development
1. Ontology database and Browser,
2. Ontology wiki Mauleon
Ramil, IRRI, Philippines

11:45 - 12:15 Questions and discussion

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 17:15 Progress Report on developing ontology – Individual presentation by collaborators for each crop (15 mns presentation and 15 mns questions for each)
13:30 – 14:00 Rice (including mutants)
Mauleon Ramil, IRRI, Philippines

14:00 – 14:30 Maize and Wheat
Rosemary Shrestha, CIMMYT, Mexico

14:30 – 15:00 Chickpea, Sorghum
Jayashree Balaji, ICRISAT, India

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:00 Musa
Stephanie Channeliere, Bioversity-France

16:00 – 16:30 Potato
Simon Reinhard, CIP, Peru

16:30 – 17:15 Discussion
Issues met & solutions applied by each Crop ontology team will be included in the presentation and time for discussion will be allocated between sessions.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 – Hands on workshop

9:30 – 10:30 Revision and validation of the terms and application notes in crop ontology
Utilization of OBO-edit: practice and suggestions for improving the use
DBXref

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Revision and validation of terms and notes across crops
Videoconference with the botanist (presence to be confirmed)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:30 Revision and validation of the methodology, including validation by the Botanist

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 Revision of the 2009 workplan and team working
Communication process and collaborative tool

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

08:30 – 09:30 Overall discussion
09:30 – 10:30 TDWG-Biodiversity standards annual meeting: Ontology working group
Objectives, content, convener GCP ontology: Future prospective (plan ahead for 2009 work)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Towards a publication…
Discussion, suggestions, Conclusion

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break