Meeting Minutes 12 December 2007
Present: Sarala Dissanayake, James Lawson, Catherine Lloyd, Poul Nielsen, Andrew Miller, Tommy Yu
Apologies: Randall Britten
Review of last week's action items
James will look into the website redesign with Tommy.
It is ongoing, James has put some design together and gave a visual overview.
Will need to bring this up again next week, and to keep Poul in the loop.
Tommy to look into all of these suggestions for the download page for the repository.
Actually, James took the initiative and put a plan together for the cleaned up version of the download/solve model page of the repository.
Action item: Tommy will implement this new model download page
Poul to find and check on those old meeting minutes.
Poul did not do that yet.
Action item: Poul to look for those minutes (pre-2001)
James to put up/update the project page to better reflect the status of various projects and proposals.
James ended up not doing it, because he felt people thought it will be unimportant and they have a lack of interest in such a page. Randall also told him that it may not be a good idea to duplicate the information that is found in the tracker onto the website.
Catherine suggests the removal of the development page if it won't be updated.
Tommy suggests replacing that page with links to relevant saved searches on the tracker
Andrew said that can be done, just have to create the correct search links.
Action item: James to change the current development page to include search links to the tracker with relevant explanations.
Agenda
Sarala and Ontology
Idea is to use SBO to annotate models.
Sarala will give an example on how to do that to Catherine, and Catherine will help out with her.
Mapping of models and elements currently have to be done manually, which is not an issue for Catherine as she codes up CellML models manually also.
Sarala also has her own mappings that she came up with, a sort of glue ontology but it is incomplete.
Poul noted that it won't need to be fully complete
Catherine agreed, as Sarala's ontology won't be pushed to its limits.
Poul noted that multiple ontologies can be used for a single model.
Catherine will use Sarala's ontology as part of her best practice materials.
CellML workshop/meeting 2008
Nothing much happened as we are still waiting on people
Catherine has a proposed program
There was a brief discussion on what the program will be like
Poul noted that it will be good to keep it to one day
James noted that keeping each session short will help people focus
This will be brought up again next week, and send the proposed program onto the discussion list.
CellML 1.2
Andrew worked on the skeleton of the specification document
There is a need to define terminologies, and there was a discussion on that.
What defines a model, what defines a file
Andrew wants a way to explain the difference between a complete model, a model that is to be imported, a model that imports other models (but before the imports had taken place), and the final model that has been processed to contain the imported elements.
Poul noted that terminologies that already exists (such as file) should not be overridden to explain the concepts that may have similarities but different in nature.
Action item: Andrew needs to come up with terminologies for that.
Issue from Alan Garny
Discussion on the future of PCEnv and COR, what will be the name, what will be the focus of the software.
Poul thinks the focus of PCEnv should be on CellML
Andrew noted that Alan has a different goal in mind, where PCEnv will eventually support various different kinds of model formats and expand beyond CellML.
James thinks keeping PCEnv focus as an editor for CellML while allowing exports to other file formats (such as SBML, but let the user know the caveats involved) will be a good direction to take
There was also a discussion on various name choices for PCEnv.
In the end, we need Andrew, Alan, Poul and Peter to agree on the changes and directions to take, after soliciting comments from people.
Action item: Andrew to send a email to solicit comments.