Tuesday, September 4, 2007. 3-4 p.m. central time

Present: Bill Parod (chair), Phil Burns (Pib), Amit Kumar, Tim Cole, Loretta Auvil, Joe Paris

Bill expressed the desire to move into a more accelerated development phase. To do this he suggested we discuss data cell members' specific roles and development responsibilities. He suggested that the 'data cell' create work groups to focus in four related but separable areas:

1) data standards and content development
2) data layer interface definition and development ("proxy")
3) data stor development
4) analytic implementation

There was some discussion of the role of 'data standards and content development'. This group includes metadata standard selection and application profiles, text collection markup standards and application profiles, collection curation and cataloging, training data development for collection specific adornment.

Tim asked about validation tests for contents' 'monkability'. It was acknowledged that validation would initially be mechanical to schema/dtd. That texts' suitability for specific analytic or other operations would be approached and defined as those operations are defined in MONK. We probably don't have enough definition on those semantics at this time.

There was general agreement in the topic breakdown for data cell concerns.

We reported each person's effort level for MONK grant.

Regarding specific responsibilities, Bill suggested he, John Norstad, and Phil Burns have responsibility for #3 data store development. Amit expressed interest in responsibility for #2 interface definition and "proxy". Tim Cole expressed interest in #1 data standards and content development. Martin Mueller wasn't on the call but has since expressed interest in #1 data standards and content development.