1. Rice Data Interoperability WG update
Pierre Larmande, Ramil Mauleon, Shaik Meera

2. RDI activities / deliverables
Improve/expand membership
remind everyone to register to RDI website (listed members)
introduction letter to be sent to prospective members
Set up a survey
finish draft survey (D1) end of May (all in WG),
we need to pattern our survey questions based on the outline of the proposed cookbook
include AfricaRice and IRRI -- list of respondents:
design of online survey form (web-based, on-line editing - ask Esther's help - May )
Open survey from June - Aug
Work on the cookbook
(D2) look at the template of cookbook from Wheat WG
Use cases, FAQ
contain other output deliverables (D3, D4, )

3. RDI activities / deliverables
Evaluation of a prototype on Rice specific data registry
(D3) - End September (data – survey existing, eg. Dryad, CKAN/DKAN , Dataverse, institutional repositories; analysis method publication - Galaxy, RDA DTR ,PID) ...
Recommendations for ontologies appropriate for managing rice data
(D4) - structured list of which ontologies relevant to rice are appropriate to different fields of study (concept map to -> appropriate ontologies)
-- post shared list in RDI portal
Good practices/method(s) for digitization of rice legacy data
Digitization: -- few cases in India, Thailand, Japan, need to present the best cases and write up these best practices (Shaik)
-- people / services (manual transcription/encoding): guidelines how to properly do this (QC..)