Friday, April 26 at 11:00 EST

Attendees

LG and SG members:

 Ann Beynon, Robert Cartolano, Mike Conlon, Tom Cramer ,  Anna Guillaumet, Christian Hauschke,  Douglas C. Hahn , Violeta Ilik,  Dong Joon (DJ) Lee,  Virginia (Ginny) Pannabecker, hannah sommers, Julia Trimmer, Terrie R. Wheeler , Alex Viggio

Duraspace:

Erin Tripp , Andrew Woods , Michele Mennielli

Regrets:

Mark Newton

Note taker

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Agenda

1. VIVO and EuroCris (Anna and Michele, 20 minutes)
   1. Regional user groups
   2. VIVO to CERIF mapper
2. LG representation at the VIVO Conference (Julia, 10 minutes)
3. Development update and discussion (Andrew/Julia/round table discussion, 25 minutes)
   1. What are your interests? What are the interests of developers and stakeholders at your institution?

Notes

Regional user groups

1. DSpace is already doing this
2. Mic is interested in supporting such user groups
   • Identify regional coordinator
   • Create wiki pages
     • goal of group, and communication channels
3. All VIVO user groups to be coordinated by VIVO governance
4. The Ask: is Leadership group interested in supporting this?
   • Interest in a follow-up call?
   • ACTION: Julia to send out Doodle poll
5. Risk: German developments are staying local/domestic
   • Use cases are different across countries
   • Smaller research institutes in Germany
   • More regional groups will create a positively reinforcing cycle
6. DuraSpace would like to have a European event late 2019 / early 2020
7. Longer term: how to avoid perception that VIVO is U.S. with international user groups?
   • What are other steps that we can take beyond user groups?
   • VIVO has an international perception
   • VIVO community has U.S. perception

VIVO and EuroCris (Anna and Michele, 20 minutes)

1. Mic and Anna met in Spain recently
   • How to support the global VIVO community?
2. Strategic value in EuroCris / VIVO partnership
3. EuroCris: started in Europe, but is not limited at this point
   • Initiative to create standard data model for RIM / CRIS systems
   • To support standard model: CERIF
   • Suggestion: consider establishing a partnership
   • Need: Mapping VIVO ontology and CERIF
4. The Ask: Mapping VIVO to CERIF
   • Previous activity here needs to be finalized
5. The Ask: Formalize statement of partnership
   • EuroCRIS conference at end of May

VIVO to CERIF mapper

1. ACTION: Anna's slides are here: 20190426_CERIFtoVIVO_TG_euroCRIS for LG.pptx
2. Upload information from CRIS via CERIF to VIVO
3. Goal of project: mapping subset of CERIF ont to VIVO ont
4. Issues around loading CSV instead of XML
   • TIB has a solution for XML to VIVO
5. Q: is the CERIF upload new content or update to existing content?
   • A: could be both
6. TIB has a KDFS mapping to CERIF, which can load into VIVO
7. "Combine" has potential for synergy with CERIF
8. Q: Michele mentioned there was a previous effort that Mike as involved in . . . Is there anything we need to understand about previous efforts that would help on this effort?
   • A: Previous effort was an "academic exercise"
     • No practical owners who actually needed to load data

LG representation at the VIVO Conference (Julia, 10 minutes)

1. Who is going?
   • Christian
   • Mike
   • Ana
   • Violeta
   • Clarivate
   • Terrie
   • VaTech
   • Alex
   • TAMU
   • Stanford - likely
   • Andrew

Development update and discussion (Andrew/Julia/round table discussion, 25 minutes)

1. First sprint
   • Docker (mariadb, solr, vivo) - Harry & Don
   • Core code needs updates https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Design+-+External+Search
2. Next sprint
   • June 17-28
   • Read-only UI
   • VIVO entities https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/2019+Sprint+Schedule
3. Groundwork needed in defining Entities in advance of the sprint
   1. ACTION: Andrew to document design and modeling
4. Project is seeking more committers
   1. Folks need institutional support to participate in dev efforts
5. Notice: Lyrasis leadership forums https://www.lyrasis.org/Leadership/Pages/Leaders-Forums.aspx

Actions

• Julia Trimmer to send out Doodle poll to schedule regional user group organizing meeting
• Anna Guillaumet  to share CERIF mapping slides: DONE
• Andrew Woods to document design and modeling needs in preparation for June sprint