Agenda
- Web seminars on VIVO inreach: ideas and best practices: Some of us have been talking about doing a web seminar series about VIVO engagement at our own institutions, maybe as part of the Duraspace Hot Topics series. Do you have suggestions or input?
- Round robin: how's it going?
Call information:
We're using the DuraSpace WebEx service for this call. When it's time, join the meeting from here:
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Meeting number: 193 905 423
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Attendees:
Julia Trimmer, Duke
Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace
Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Institute
DongJoon Lee, the new Researcher Information Systems (RIS) Librarian at Texas A & M University
Alex Viggio, CU-Boulder
Don Elsborg, CU-Boulder
Suzanne Pilsk, Smithsonian Institute
Justin Littman, George Washington University
Ted Lawless, Thomson-Reuters
Notes:
Hot Topics webinars are focused on things that are very interesting to the community. They use Adobe Connect to record sessions and make slides available afterwards. Kristy Searles handles all aspects of webinars.
DuraSpace usually looks for people who could "curate" the series and schedule 2 or 3 presenters per hour webinar. We're thinking about topics around best practices around engaging faculty at institutions. To participate, you prepare a slide deck and turn it over to Kristy who puts them together.
We need someone from this group to act as the curator. This is the person that would organize the effort, finding presenters and pulling together slideshows.
What do people think of this idea? Alex thinks it's a good idea, especially when they're recorded. This makes content more accessible to newcomers to the community. Another idea is, what are the benefits to linking VIVOs and does that change the outreach and engagement message?
Carol says that the webinars can often be viewed 1,000 times after the event, so they really have tremendous reach.
Alvin from the Smithsonian thinks it's a great idea, although they're not at the point where they're doing that yet. He thinks Alex's idea about linking VIVOs is a great topic.
Dean Krafft and Huda Khan are working with UNAVCO and UCAR to link together VIVOs and Dave Eichman's CTSA search is contributing to the project as well.
Also Eric Meeks at UCSF would be another great presenter about linking VIVOs or other topics.
"Linking VIVO's together" -- is that a good topic or do we want to cover a broader topic? Carol thinks we can could do either.
Don points to some existing info from the NetRES task force. See the VIVO wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69015585
What about a webinar about OpenVIVO? Another great idea!
Should we put an opportunity on the VIVO social media channels? Should this be a task force? Should we focus on implementation needs since we aren't having iFest this year?
Alex and Julia will email Mike and as for his thoughts about putting this question out to the community. DongJoon let the group know that he found the previous VIVO webinar series (series five on duraspace.org/node/223) and we welcomed him to the group!
