Agenda - Auckland CellML weekly team meeting - 20091209

Agenda - Auckland CellML weekly team meeting

  1. (Catherine) Terms of use for CellML models and associated content hosted on models.cellml.org.  Tracker item 2056
  2. (Catherine) Potential revision of the description of groupings in the CellML 1.2 specification in response to this feedback from a user:

    "in regard to encapsulation, maybe you could point out to someone that the CellML specifications could perhaps do with a little elaboration in this area.   I read the groups section on a couple of different occasions -- as did a colleague of mine.  Both of us got the impression that the group element allows components to be grouped together but does nothing with respect to connections between members of the group.   Perhaps the specs could be revised to make this clear?"
  3. (Catherine) Should we/can we update the current CellML 1.1 tutorial:  http://www.cellml.org/getting-started/tutorials/cellml-1.1-tutorial.  At the time this was intentionally vague as we did not have a "best  practice" 1.1 format.  To my knowledge we still don't have any "best  practice" guidelines, but we probably need to address this as we now  have users who are interested in building their models in 1.1 and they  need more instruction.

    Currently we have Andre, Mike and Jonna frequently using 1.1.  I have  used it a bit, and Sarala has a method outlined in her modularisation  paper.  I believe all of us approach it lightly differently.  Are we  able to come up with a single best practice set of guidelines?
  4. (Catherine) Idea: Should we have a CellML 1.1 model library building effort early next year (2-3 days set aside)?  We'd have to agree on a common format (template?) before hand.  We have been talking about a component library for a while now and the timing might be right as we currently have a larger-than-normal team of curators to work on this.
  5. OpenCell development update
    1. Testing of COR like view.
    2. Other
  6. CellML API - update
  7. PMR2 development - update
  8. Repository contributions update
  9. CellML core specs - update
    1. Reset rules and prototype in API (will be a break-away)
    2. General
  10. Metadata specifications (general, citations, graphing, simulation, other)
    1. General
    2. (Randall) Representing parameters with a probability distrubution rather than exact values.
  11. cellml.org update
  12. Time permitting: Updates or additional items from volunteering attendees