Present: Dougal Cowan, Tommy Yu, David "Andre" Nickerson, Geoff Nunns, James Lawson, Andrew Miller, Peter Hunter, Justin Marsh
Apologies: Randall Britten, Mike Cooling, Catherine Lloyd, Poul Nielsen
Last week's action items:
1) Andrew to create a a tracker item about showing warnings for unit definitions problems.
2) Andrew to create a tracker item about warning severity levels.
This week's agenda:
1) CellML Specs - update
2) Metadata specifications (general, citations, graphing, simulation, other)
- James brought Peter up to date on the metadata spec situation.
- Peter asked whether we are switching to SED-ML for simulation metadata.
- Andre said that SED-ML does not yet support everything that we need to do for simulation and graphing.
- Andrew said that we are still trying to convince the SED-ML group to separate out graphing and simulation.
- Andre said that you might want to change some of the graphing metadata to get different graphs from the same simulation, or vice versa.
- Peter said that we want to encourage cooperation, and use accepted standards if they exist.
- There was a discussion about the convergence of metadata and language standards, SBML and CellML, etc.
- Andre said that the minimal information standard should be out soon.
3) OpenCell development update
- Justin has been working on the windows Physiome build environment installer.
4) CellML API - update
- Andrew has been spending time processing the manuscript for the API paper and wants to submit this as soon as possible.
- There was a discussion about the Physiome build environment, its history and what the goals of Justin's current work is - to provide a graphical installer that can install a functional Physiome build environment on any Windows machine, without disturbing any existing build environments.
- Most other work is waiting on this build environment work.
5) cellml.org update
- Dougal reported that he has been made the second manager of cellml.org, to take some of the pressure off Tommy for day-to-day tasks on the website.
- Dougal said that there have been minor changes made to the structure of the community section to make it more generic: events instead of workshops, with workshops now under events.
6) Repository contributions update
- James reported that Catherine has been making lots of exposures.
- Catherine's students have finished, James and Catherine helped them get their models into the repository.
- Peter mentioned Alan Garny's reports of discrepancies in some models.
7) PMR2 development - update
- Peter suggested that the "Download" link on exposure pages become "Download XML".
- Tommy said that this part of exposures will be changing, and that the "Download" link will always download the top-level file that was used to create the exposure, whether this be an XML model file, a SED-ML file, etc.
- Tommy has cleaned up the workflow to make it easier for curators.
- Tommy has been re-factoring code to make new exposures easier and to enable expiration states.
- Tommy is working out new ways to expose, moving away from temp doc.
- Peter asked about whether Saint will become part of PMR2's annotation editing.
- There was a discussion about annotation editing, support for Saint's web services, and where metadata editing is best done.
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