CNI Fall Meeting

I gave a project briefing yesterday at the CNI fall meeting. I talked about our experience in building the Neurocommons project and the release of our RDF distribution for data integration in molecular biology.

The meeting was PACKED. 400+ people. I was sad that my briefing was up against the OAI-ORE briefing - that's a project we want to connect to at a deep level - but I was glad to have a good crowd. It's a little intimidating to get questions from Don Lindberg about your use of bio-information from the National Library of Medicine, or from George Strawn about the NSF use of semantics.

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