Here we recap the events of the past month.
MOU and Budget
Beginning in September, Julia Trimmer and Mike Conlon worked with Erin Tripp to create a draft Memorandum of Understanding and a draft budget for 2019. You can find both in the Leadership Group Google Drive folder
Conference
The 2019 VIVO Conference will be in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 4-6, 2019. Announcement here: https://duraspace.org/save-the-date-vivo-2019-september-4-6-podgorica-montenegro/
- The conference committee is meeting every two weeks on Wednesdays at 10 EST.
- Conference progress updates will be posted on the wiki page: VIVO Conference Planning Task Force. We have a keynote speaker and two invited speakers confirmed. Communication about invited seakers is comming up in a couple of weeks. Follow the website: http://vivoconference.org/ for most up to date information. Many potential sponsors have been contacted but no sponsorships have been committed yet.
Action Planning
- Vision. Has not met.
- Governance and Structure. Is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM US Eastern. Daniel has summarized survey results and the group is reviewing the document.
- Product Evolution. Meets weekly Wednesday 11 AM US Eastern. Meeting notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhsW7EKhQyfHRrzh7wZNziosJAfliduXxQQVcT1w0bI/edit# See Slack channel for pinned items and conversation. The group finished a first draft of the data model and has been discussing ways to continue their work in the upcoming sprint.
- Community Development. Is meeting monthly but our group struggles to find time to work outside the committee.
- Resources. Is meeting bi-weekly. Contact Terrie Wheeler for details.
Task Forces
- Membership Task Force: David Wilcox has joined the group to help devise new solutions for increasing VIVO memberships.
- Development meets weekly to discuss and work on VIVO issues. Andrew Woods organizes.
- 2018-12 Sprint - a project success
- Excellent Leadership support and developer engagement (19 notional developers, 10 active developers)
- Although the focus has been on "development process", the quality engagement has resulted in real advancement for the software
- Internationalization
- Documentation
- Alternate triplestore support (Blazegraph)
- Bug fixes
- UX improvement
- Build process and Vagrant refresh
- Ontology improvements
- Notable participants - some are long-standing team members, some are new. How do we encourage ongoing engagement? They are GREAT!
- James Silas Creel / William Welling - Texas A&M
- alessandro galasso - Cineca
- Svantje Lilienthal - TIB
- Laura Wrubel - George Washington Univ
- Benjamin Gross - Clarivate
- Stefan Wolff - SLUB Dresden
- Ralph O'Flinn - University of Alabama, Birmingham
- Kitio Fofack - ARETEX
- 2018-12 Sprint - a project success
- Research Intelligence Task Force: Group is forming. Has not yet met. Contact Tom Cramer
- Ontology Task Force: Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Mike Conlon. Current work in two areas: 1) identifiers and attributes of identifiers such as ORCiD, DOI, GRID, ISSN; 2) languages, language skills, and languages of scholarly works.
- Internationalization Task Force: Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Kitio Fofackof ARETEX.