Re: [Treebase-devel] ABI proposal for phyloinformatics

[Arlin S. <ar...@um...>]

Thanks, Karen. I'll take a look at it, too.

Arlin

On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Karen Cranston wrote:

> 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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>
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> Karen Cranston
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> nescent.org
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Arlin Stoltzfus (ar...@um...)
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