Conference Call No. & Agenda

[Vincent, Leszek]

Dear Colleagues,

The number for you to use to participate in the conference call tomorrow (Tuesday, 11 June) at 3:00 p.m. (CST; 15:00 CST) is: (573) 884-7102. [I've booked 1.5 hrs but hope we'll be done in less time]

Provisional Agenda:

1. Welcome

2. Comments on theme: "Enhancement of communications, collaborations and the development of plant-based ontologies and controlled vocabularies." 
[Background: Title of proposed project is 'Plant Ontology Consortium'; to be submitted to the Research Coordination Networks Program of the NSF (NSF 00-56)]

3. Your responses to the following guiding questions:

	3.1. What evidence would you like to see included in the proposal (or linked to?) to demonstrate that we can go beyond a controlled vocabulary to a full ontology?

	3.2. The previous submission was criticized for not including more of the GO philosophy in the proposal. What else of the GO philosophy do you think should be included to cancel this perception?

	3.3. To quote from the Panel Summary of the previous submission: "There is a need to identify the major systems descriptions that will be revised or created de novo to cause a plant ontology to form." What's your response to this perceived "need"?

	3.4. Please comment on what plans you would like to see in place to make the 'consortium' real.

	3.5. I'll be structuring the budget so that it fits within (or close to within) the $500,000 figure (over 5yrs); estimate $50K-$60K available for each of 5 yrs. What components of the previous budget do you consider essential/should be kept? What new component(s) would you like to see included?

4. Co-PI(s) on grant - for discussion.

5. Suggestions on authors of 'Letters of Support'.

6. Tentative time-table:

	06/11-17/'02 - submission of other responses to Guiding Questions & other inputs (ALL)

	06/18/'02 - completion of draft of 'Project Description' & outline of budget (PLDV) - to be emailed to all on list - for feedback

	06/21/'02 - receipt of feedback to drafts (ALL to PLDV)

	06/21/'02 - receipt of Letters of Support & docs from Co-PI('s) (to PLDV)

	06/24-27/'02 - any necessary reworking of docs (PLDV) & uploading of components via FastLane (NSF)

	06/28/'02 - electronic submission to NSF via FastLane

7. Any other matters that you would like to discuss...




I look forward to 'meeting' with you tomorrow.

Sincerely,
- Leszek

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P. Leszek D. Vincent Ph.D., FLS
Plant Science Unit, Dept. of Agronomy, 209 Curtis Hall,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-7020, USA.
Ph: (573) 884-3716 (Agronomy); Fax:(573) 884-7850;
Ph/Fax (Home): (573) 441-1228; 
Email: Leszek at missouri.edu
Plant Systematist on the Maize Mapping Project - NSF award 9872655 -
(http://www.maizemap.org/ and  http://www.agron.missouri.edu/)
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