Project Plan

Project components

Much of the schedule is based on the 2007 NSF grant, with amendments by the Dryad Consortium Management Board and subsequent grant commitments. For Dryad project developers and associates, a (private) detailed development plan is available. For completed releases, see the Release Notes. The original project plan is still available.

1. Scalable workflow

Primary personnel: Hong Cui, Jim, Todd, UNC postdoc, MS student Overall objective:

Target milestone: First quarter: October 1, 2011

Objective: Develop NLP to generate potential ontology terms and candidate EQ's in Phenex

• Generate list of terms to be added to ontologies (Hong)
• Evaluate accuracy of automated EQs on 50 character test set, refine testing set and methodology, begin development of Phenex ‘EQ suggestion’ interface requirements/specifications
• Identify corpus of publications, extract character descriptions
• Generate entities and qualities that can be identified, with frequency and ontology match

Action items:

• Wasila to send Hong the PDFs containing characters from the 50 char list - done
• Action item: Wasila to send Paul a curated pub
• Action Item: Jim will send Hong full database report with character text and EQ assignments
• Jim: to enumerate pros and cons for MX (web-based) and Phenex for first phone call, estimate development time
• Hong: Hire MS student at AZ
• Todd: Hire UNC postdoc

Target milestone: Fourth quarter:July 1, 2012

Data deposition:

• Authors can update datafiles. The versioning system will be supported by DOIs and data citation conventions.

2. Anatomy ontology coordination

Target release date: December 20, 2011

Data deposition:

• Detailed citation storage/export (migration to the version 3 metadata model).
• Authors can delegate submission authority to co-authors or other collaborators.