Meeting Notes

Implementation Updates

Cornell
- VIVO 1.3 upgrade delayed a bit by production server storage issues
Weill Cornell
- working with Jon on use cases
Scripps
- upgraded to VIVO 1.3
- Harvester PubMed ingest
UFL
- importing courses data (7 years worth in Excel format), likely to extend course ontology
UT North Texas
- Katy's visit – excitement about visualizations
- ok to extract faculty profiles into VIVO (PHP/MySQL)
John Hopkins
- also an AI user – considering it as source vs SAP
Colorado
- meetings with research
- expanding faculty reporting to Colorado Springs campus

How does one delete publications from VIVO?
- ingest function to identify publications to remove, i.e. support RDF batch removal (future VIVO enhancement)
SPARQL query assistance (from vivo-imp-issues)
- adding pages to wiki for common SPARQL queries under Implementation area of wiki, but connect these to the Ontology section
- ability to save SPARQL queries in the VIVO Site Admin UI
- sharing SPARQL queries on the wiki, where page history could help
- "Learning SPARQL" from O'Reilly (may be available on their online Safari service)
Data ingest problem (from vivo-imp-issues)
- missing authorship intermediary
Items for an Implementation FAQ:
- Can I infer research areas from the publications of an individual?
  - research areas (keywords) not pulled down by Harvester, but is being addressed by Stony-Brook project that pulls down keywords (MeSH/UMLS?)
Questions about primary versus additional web page linking, and related admin user interface elements
- Jon and Stella clarified that this has been upgrade in v1.3, getting away from early Vitro elements still present in v1.2, should be handled by upgrade function.