The 2011 Distributome Project Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting takes place on Friday Oct. 28, 2011, 8:00-10:00 AM (Pacific Time). The meeting is by-invitation only. The three broader goals of the meeting are to showcase the Distributome project progress to-date, solicit constructive and critical feedback from the SAB board, and chart the plans for the project over the next year.

Logistics

• Timer, Place, Venue: Friday Oct. 28, 2011, 8:00-10:00 AM (Pacific Time). Virtual Ready-Talk web-meeting.
• Participants:
• Distributome SAB members: Lawrence Moore (Duke), David Aldous (Berkeley) and Robert Dobrow (Carleton College)
  
• Distributome PIs: Ivo Dinov (SOCR/UCLA), Dennis Pearl (MBI/OSU) and Kyle Siegrist (UAH/VLPS)
  
• Join the Meeting: Instructions will be emailed to all invitees

Agenda

• Introductions
• What is the Distributome Project?
  
• Distributome Website: as an open-access and open-development  resource (Navigator)
  
• Technical foundations: XML meta-data (DB), HTML DB Validator, XSD schema, Distributome LGPL-licensed source code, development page
• Distributome as an educational resource: Distributome Wiki activities
  
• Plans for Distributome User Interface Redesign: Navigator (1, 2), Editor (1, 2, 3)
• SAB Vision and Directives
• Approaches to engage the larger community in expanding, supporting and improving the Distributome resources (sustainability)
  
• Best Practices of project evaluation and assessment of the project's broader impact
  
• How to integrate Distributome data, tools, activities, examples, problems, solutions?
  
• Other
• Open Discussion
• Adjourn

Acknowledgments
The Distributome project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grants 1023115, 1022560, and 1022636.