Agenda
- Introductions
- About the Outreach and Engagement calls
- Current issues and status of the group
- Community section of the wiki: have you seen it?
- Future discussion items
We'll be using Duke's WebEx service, so use this link to join the WebEx meeting:
https://dukeuniversity.webex.com/dukeuniversity/j.php?MTID=mc24050703e3752f858391227209751f3
Meeting number: 738 650 423
Meeting password: VIVO
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Attendees:
Julia Trimmer, Duke University
Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian
Carol Minton Morris
Beth Garner
John Gieshchen, Symplectic
Michael Bolton, Texas A&M
Michaeleen Trimarchi, Scripps
Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director
Ted Lawless, Thomson-Reuters
Sharlini Sankaran, REACH NC
Darrell Gunter, Registered Service Provider
Kristi Holmes, Northwestern University
Minutes
The purpose of this call to help provide support to the community. It's your call!
This is a great place to collaborate on conference abstracts as well as publications.
Sharlini wanted to know if others have faced similar issues regarding publicity of core labs in eagle-i. Alvin is facing a major road block regarding what data their faculty want to publicize.
Mike Conlon explained the policy at UFL where transparency is required. North Carolina is similar, says Sharlini. But some research is sensitive, such as animal research. Are other people seeing these issues? Mike says that UFL has made many exceptions for staff and faculty working with animals.
Kristi says that this has been a theme at Wash U. In previous calls, we did role playing to help people craft responses well. This call is a great place to share best practices and information. Kristi will help locate this information on the wiki.
Mike C: how are you approaching self-editing? Will faculty be able to edit their data?
Michaeleen: we won't allow self-editing. This prevents profiles from being out of date.They have a library assistant who's editing profiles.
Michael B: At TAMU, they will be talking about this issue, whether they'll be updating from Elements and whether the data is correct.
Julia: at Duke, some of the data is fed from institutional records and some is editable in our VIVO.
Mike C: university administrators don't always understand the faculty record, but there's a lot of information about faculty than the administrators realize. This tells the full story about what the faculty members are doing.
Darrell: User adoption is one of his areas of expertise. Be sure to publicize success stories quarterly. Use the existing 50% to help with testimonials, buddy system, rewards so that you're leverage existing users. Continually work with users to make sure that the site is sticky and attractive.
Sharlini: People like stickers on back on tablets.
Alvin: We'd like to use to reuse VIVO data on curated web pages. That's an incentive to keep that profile up to date.
Darrell: Trust the community.
Michael B: Would we use SPARQL queries for populating websites?
Mike C: UFL both use SPARQL to populate various websites.
Alvin: Does this encourage usage?
Mike C: We think so – about 10% of UFL faculty have edited their profiles and we think it's mostly junior faculty. When departments are involved, it helps to promote the message and repeating it in a consistent way. It's important to repeat the message many times – you can't just launch it, you have to live it! The university adminsitrative message is not as strong, typically.
