Re: [Treebase-devel] ABI proposal for phyloinformatics

[Karen C. <kar...@ne...>]

There are several pitches now in the Google doc, with a fair bit of
overlap between them. I am willing to consolidate into a single page
and send to NSF (Reed?) and see what he has to say about the various
components. It seems like these components are:
1. some level of re-engineering of TreeBASE
2. further development of MIAPA, with annotation tools and TreeBASE integration
3. use of ToLWeb as a crowd sourcing and data synthesis platform
4. NeXML refinement and development

I don't think this one-pager needs to capture all of the ideas and
details we currently have, but instead give a general sense of what we
are proposing and if all / some of these ideas is potentially
fundable.

Everyone in agreement? I will post the single page in the doc later today.

Karen

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Arlin Stoltzfus <ar...@um...> wrote:
> Today is the deadline for our 1-page synopsis to pitch to an NSF program
> officer (before going further).   Currently we seem to have 3 pitches.  It
> is time now for some energetic person to consolidate this, so that we can
> move ahead.
>
> Arlin
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Karen Cranston wrote:
>
>> Tomorrow morning (Wed, June 1) looks to be good for everyone, and
>> sooner seems better than later. I propose we talk at 9:00 am EST. I
>> will send connection information later today.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Karen
>>
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Karen Cranston
>> <kar...@ne...> wrote:
>>>
>>> There has been some interest among various groups in an ABI proposal
>>> for development of phyloinformatics resources. This email is an
>>> attempt to connect those threads and move the process forward. The
>>> conversations that have been happening up to this point are:
>>>
>>> 1. The Phyloinformatics Research Foundation (phylofoundation.org,
>>> stewards of TreeBASE and ToLWeb) started a Google doc aimed at
>>> TreeBASE
>>> 2. MIAPA developers started a wiki page
>>> (https://www.nescent.org/sites/evoio/NSF_ABI_2011), recognizing the
>>> need for coordination with TreeBASE and other resources
>>> 3. NESCent (Todd, Hilmar and myself), as the current TreeBASE host and
>>> as a third party interested in coordinated development across
>>> resources started a third document (now added to the already mentioned
>>> Google doc)
>>>
>>> If you are interested in this discussion and do not already have
>>> access to the Google doc entitled TreeBASE_ABI.doc, let me know and I
>>> can grant you access. Hilmar and I made some substantial edits earlier
>>> this morning. I point you specifically to the section at the end
>>> entitled "An attempt to re-think all of this". Briefly, we wanted to
>>> encourage some radical thinking and explore the idea of developing a
>>> PhyloCommons that incorporates both TreeBASE and ToLWeb into the
>>> proposal (as the data repository and the data sharing / dissemination
>>> / synthesis platform, respectively).
>>>
>>> The ABI deadline is July 7, so we have a short period of time to pull
>>> this together. Here is a link to a Doodle poll for an initial
>>> teleconference.
>>>
>>> http://doodle.com/zf2tz7sftyk3naxy
>>>
>>> During this meeting, we hope to come to agreement on the broad
>>> direction of the grant, identify possible leaders of the various
>>> components and create a plan for getting this pulled together in time
>>> for the deadline. Please feel free to continue the conversation on the
>>> Google doc between now and the teleconference. If there are others who
>>> you think should be invited, feel free to do so. Not everyone who
>>> participates in this first phase will end up being named on the grant,
>>> but these resources require input from a much larger group.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Karen Cranston
>>> Training Coordinator and Informatics Project Manager
>>> nescent.org
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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