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Building an Information Framework for Neuroscience

Friday, October 19
Conference Room E1/E2
Natcher Building, NIH Campus
Bethesda, MD

(Attendee List)

8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m
Welcome and Overview
Karen Skinner, Ph.D.
Slides (600kb)

 

SESSION I – NIF Vocabularies and the NIF Vocabulary Server
Moderator: Zohara Cohen, Ph.D.

8:15 a.m. - 8:35 a.m.

NIF Resource Description Vocabulary; NIF Terminology Workshops and Disseminaton of the Products; Demonstration of Registering Resources at Level I
Daniel Gardner, Ph.D.
Slides (5 MB)

   

8:35 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Questions/Discussion
   
8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
The NIF Vocabulary Server
Maryann Martone, Ph.D
Slides (1.6 MB)
   
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Questions/Discussion

 

SESSION II – Full, Unstructured Text Search and Textpresso
Moderator: David Shurleff, Ph.D

   
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m

Textpresso
Paul Sternberg, Ph.D.
Slides (5.4 MB)

   
10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Questions/Discussion
   

10:15 a.m.-10:30a.m.

BREAK
 

Session III - The NIF Mediator
Moderator: Greg Farber Ph.D.

   
10:30 a.m.- 11:00a.m.

The NIF Mediator
Jeff Grethe, Ph.D.
Slides (7 MB)

   
11:00 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. Questions/Discussion
 

Session IV – NIF and Web Services
Moderator – Peter Lyster, Ph.D.

   
11:15 a.m. - 11:35 a.m NIF and Web Services
William Bug
Slides (475 kb)
   
11:35 a.m - 11:55 a.m.

Communication between NIF and Resource Providers
Louis Marenco, M.D.
Slides (748kb)

   
11:55 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Questions/Discussion
 

WORKING LUNCH PERIOD  

   
12:15 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. BREAK for serving lunch
   
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Working Lunch
 

SESSION VI – Case Studies in Level III Registration
Moderator: Michael Huerta, Ph.D.

   
1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m Case Study I – Step by Step Demonstration of Registering Neuromorpho.org with NIF
Giorgio Ascoli, Ph.D.
Slides (10 MB)
   
1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Case Study II – Step by Step Demonstration of Registering SuMSDB
David van Essen, Ph.D.
Slides
(17 MB)
   
1:55 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Questions/Comments  

 

SESSION V – NIF Query Interface
Moderator: Yuan Liu, Ph.D.

   
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Use Cases Demonstrating Formulation of NIF Queries
Luis Marenco, M.D., Perry Miller, M.D., Ph.D., and Maryann Martone, Ph.D.  
   
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Questions/Discussions

   

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

BREAK
 

SESSION VIA -Other Semantic Based Efforts
SESSION VIB - Feedback from Resource Providers on Day’s Presentations
Moderator: Karen Skinner, Ph.D.

   
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Building a Neurocommons
Alan Ruttenberg, Ph.D.
Slides (2 MB pdf)
   

4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Questions/Discussions
   
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Overall general comments and observations of Resource Providers with respect to Level III registration of their resources
Rob Williams, Doug Bowden , Estella Lopez, Rod Corriveau, Fina Nash, and others
 

SESSION VII: Discussion - Implementing a Neuroscience Information Resource Framework : Reflections from Research Community and Future
Moderators: David Shurtleff, Ph.D. and Karen Skinner, Ph.D.

   
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. General Comments on Possible Future Directions
Barbara Goldman, John Wilbanks, Rob Williams, David Van Essen, Dan Gardner, Doug Bowden
   
5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Open Discussion on Future Directions
All participants
(
Slides from Dr. Bowden - 45 kb)
   
5:45 p.m. ADJOURN
   

 

 

 
 
   
 
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health