- The Allen Institute’s Human Cortex Atlas (humancortex.alleninstitute.org) was being scraped for gene-expression data; XML files containing gene IDs linked to brain regions were downloaded and parsed, with plans to combine them with specimen metadata to build an “attention augmentation system.”  
- Colorimetric in-situ hybridization data from the atlas was noted as lacking regional coordinates in XML but present in HTML, prompting additional metadata harvesting.  
- A 325-million-triple RDF/SPARQL endpoint of biomedical knowledge (DERI HCLS demo) was highlighted as a large-scale semantic-web resource for integrating molecular biology, literature, anatomy, and physiology.  
- Science Commons and Creative Commons were discussed as metadata-centric licensing frameworks; participants argued that distributing raw RDF/XML without accompanying executable code or YAML schemas hampers automated reuse and integration.  
- The W3C Semantic Web Life Sciences mailing list (public-semweb-lifesci) was identified as the coordination hub for these biomedical-semantics efforts, though its archive access restrictions and committee culture were criticized.  
- A proposal to treat database schemas as modular “objects” (analogous to kernel modules) was floated, advocating that every published dataset include machine-readable schema definitions and direct read access to the database daemon.  
- Historical “bookwheel” and Song-Dynasty revolving repositories were cited as early analogues to modern revision-control systems, inspiring reflections on physical-to-digital knowledge management.  
- A remote-controlled R2-D2 arena project was mentioned, focusing on boundary-detection logic to prevent the droid from leaving its enclosure while under guest control.  
- Neurocommons.org was introduced as another open-data neuroscience initiative, distinct from Science Commons, with interest in its potential for automated knowledge synthesis.