Roles of the Advisory Committees
| Curator Committee | ● Group of Curators representing all crop ontology curators |
| ● Selected by the members of the curator community for a term up to 2 years | |
| ● Acts as a standing body to facilitate communication between the entire curator community and the CO Team | |
| Strategy Committee | ● Committee with representatives from crop domains, CO global project domain and external domain (including representatives of Breeding databases and ontology registries) |
| ● Provide recommendations to the CO Ontology Coordinator on strategic project issues | |
| Scientific Advisory Committee | ● Committee with representatives from crop domains and external (scientific) domain |
| ● Provide advice to the CO Team (Ontology and Technical Coordinators) on scientific issues relevant to the CO | |
| ● Provide guidance and recommendations for the evolution of the Crop Ontology content and technology, identification of best practices regarding the use CO or other ontologies | |
| ● Provide expertise and guidance for the homogenization of entities and attributes terms across species – e.g. a tissue name | |
| ● Validate the quality assurance tools proposed by the Community that can be promoted through CO | |
| ● Validate for some species a group of experts that would be able to evaluate the submissions (homogeneity). The group would make critical assessments (redundancy checking, homogenization of terms...) | |
| ● Validate the modifications of the Trait Dictionary Template and accompanying Guidelines in consultation with the Ontology and Technical Coordinators |