ABI Meeting minutes 2008-10-15
Present: Dougal Cowan, Tommy Yu, Catherine Lloyd, Andrew Miller, Poul Nielsen, Michael Backhaus, James Lawson, Justin Marsh
Apologies: Peter Schmiedeskamp, Jonna Terkildsen, Mike Cooling, Peter Hunter.
3) Randall to create a tracker item about the exponential issues/scripts.
2) PCEnv progress update
3) CellML API progress update
4) CellML Spec progress update
5) Update on repository contributions
6) PMR2 update.
7) Time permitting: Updates or additional items from volunteering attendees
Apologies: Peter Schmiedeskamp, Jonna Terkildsen, Mike Cooling, Peter Hunter.
Last week's action items:
1) James to create a tracker item to discuss copyright issues on the website.- Done.
- James has been doing research towards this, and should be done in a few days.
3) Randall to create a tracker item about the exponential issues/scripts.
- Done.
This week's agenda:
1) Initial planning for Auckland/Oxford contribution to PCEnv 0.6 and CellML api 1.6- Randall brought a list of tracker items representing features to be added to PCEnv.
- A Mac version is seen as top priority.
- A discussion is required to decide on priority for features; this needs to include other PCEnv users, and Alan Garny.
- James' top pick for 0.6 is metadata editors.
- Andrew started a discussion on the RDF "triples view".
- There was extensive discussion of the merits of adding a tabular view of RDF triples. Randall suggested that a view of the metadata might not be very useful without some way of using it to navigate the model.
- Michael suggested a filtered or searched graph generator that centers on the selected object, for example.
- Graph views widely seen as unwieldy and messy - see W3C graph viewer.
- Catherine and Poul said that any discussion must include Sarala.
- James would like to see some kind of way of editing/viewing the metadata from the tree view panel. Justin suggested a "more than complete CellML view" that could include such "metadata elements".
- It was decided to continue the discussion on Friday, during the planned meeting with Alan Garny.\
2) PCEnv progress update
- PCEnv 0.5 to be released today.
3) CellML API progress update
- Andrew reported that the API is completing almost all the parsing tests, except test 12.
- Test 12 fails due to base URLs; should be a trivial fix.
- Aim to pass entire suite except XML normalization.
4) CellML Spec progress update
- No update
5) Update on repository contributions
- Catherine has got the Teusink glycolysis model working, with help from the Manchester group. And there was much rejoicing.
- Catherine has curated the Ueda circadian rhythm model.
- James has created a number of circadian rhythm session files.
- The full circadian rhythm set is almost done.
6) PMR2 update.
- Tommy has started on the Plone side, making buildouts etc for the PMR2 final alpha.
- James raised the possibility of the visual design of the PMR2 pages needing to be planned.
- As the object model is not compete, the interface can not be designed yet.
7) Time permitting: Updates or additional items from volunteering attendees
- Catherine announced that the cellml.org wireframes are to be sent out for comment.
- Andrew suggested that the CellML community needs to be involved in this process.
- James suggested that at the end of the wireframe stage, the community could be asked for feedback and suggestions.