April 24, 2015, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Jon Corson-Rikert , Kristi Holmes, Melissa Haendel, Paul Albert, debra hanken kurtz, Jonathan Markow

= note taker

Regrets

Dean B. Krafft, Robert H. McDonald,  Mike Conlon

Dial-In Number:  (209) 647-1600, Participant code: 117433#

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates

• • Conference
    • Almost finalized the keynotes and invited speakers
    • Thinking of putting two invited speakers together in a 90-minute block with no competition
    • Abstracts close today – always wish we have more
    • Will have late-breaking submissions - sometimes only for posters in the past, but will do late breaking papers and panels if not enough submissions
    • can invite additional speakers if have gaps to fill
    • will recruit posters
    • And will likely have a few stragglers coming in as well
    • Quality good? good diversity, 45+ submissions, and typically about that number of speaking slots but may have less competing with the invited talks
    • Would like to see more from SURA and diverse
    • Not that many international ones – poke and prod to submit even if late
    • Would be good to have a set of implementation-focused presentation
    • CTSA or consortium topic
    • Conference sponsorship drive to start
      • Have list of last year's sponsors
      • Encourage triple store vendors to participate as presenters
  • Tech Lead job search
    • great candidates coming in and hoping to have interviews as soon as possible so we don't lose people
    • some people on the search committee know some of the candidates
    • good ratio of qualified candidates to the whole pool
  • 1.8
    • new release candidate this afternoon or Monday, and testing again
    • Testing VIVO on Virtuoso to debug remaining issues with slow deletes
  • IFest Survey
    • Will tabulate and share results of the I-Fest survey
  • Use of Ontology with Fedora/Hyrda
    • Fedora 4 supports the production of RDF out of the repository
    • What does that mean? what are they using for a data model
      
    • The extended Fedora community (Islandora and Hydra) is doing the Portland Common Data Model and would be great to have discussions
    • Jon and Andrew could coordinate it – Andrew and David have a window into both the Islandora and Hydra communities
    • would be pretty straightforward
  • Visualization Task Force
    • Katy Börner will be at Northwestern in mid May– will ask her about her willingness to advise on our visualization task force
    • Who will chair that group? Have participants, need chair
  • VIVO survey should we do every 2 years?
    
    • Should we intersperse a quantitative survey with a qualitative update?