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Announcements


Analytics

  • Would it be useful to collect some benchmarks on analytics from a number of VIVOs

    • could lead to addressing SEO

    • Cornell and Colorado are interested

    • Eric (UCSF) -- benchmarking is a good thing -- real SEO expert is Anirvan Chatterjee and a lot of his presentations are available on his profile page; also happy to discuss

      • Learned last year at the VIVO conference last year -- to get Google to like you, the amount of user-generated content improves the search rankings

        • they control the ranking

        • you can affect the SEO

      • Do the OpenSocial gadgets help? Believes so, plus indirectly encourages people to go in and make edits

        • the activity may also stimulate Google ranking

  • Job descriptions

    • should we set up an area of the wiki with sample job descriptions?

    • Mary (Emory) -- would be very helpful as look toward staffing a variety of roles

Updates

  • Weill Cornell

  • Virginia Tech (Keith) -- still focusing on doing manual entry to get some data to work with

    • Symplectic Elements final phase is a couple of months away

    • Will be looking at the RDF created as a model for data ingest

  • UCSF (Eric)

    • working on getting hosted Profiles instances up

    • still working on external co-authors -- hoping to have links to external authors live in a couple weeks

    • earlier stages -- trying to get more active collaboration into VIVO/Profiles through the OpenSocial path

      • pump.io -- can actively or passively follow people

        • e.g., follow everyone who’s a co-author of mine -- could feed in any arbitrary relationship and use that as a way to send out active messages or follow activities passively

        • whenever one of those people has activity, the ActivityStream server would put that information into the OpenSocial gadget on the colleagues’ profiles

        • “profile locally, but network globally”

      • the technologies are there but have to glue them all together

    • working with Nick Benik to put the conference social network app up on a server

  • UCLA

  • Texas A&M

  • RPI/Deep Carbon Observatory

  • Symplectic

  • Stony Brook (Tammy)

    • Swamped because are using structured data from two sides of the campus, so are being tapped for reporting -- OPPE, faculty scorecards, and interest in ORCID integration

    • Can now get that going with VIVO 1.7 -- do you just have to put in your credentials to connect to the sandbox, or is there more to do?  Or could we as a University automatically and set up ORCID iDs

      • if you have credentials, you’re already an ORCID partner

      • setting up iDs in batch is not accomplished through VIVO -- but VIVO can be used for the individuals to validate them and make them visible from ORCID

      • Don (CU Boulder) -- ORCID does have an API for batch iD created and documentation and examples; CU just registered 3,300 faculty and 20%  have already been claimed; will be added to the HR database and will bring into Symplectic Elements

        • don’t need to be an ORCID partner to do this -- as a University, can just sign up and get credentials

        • hoping that Elements can at some point pull in the iDs in bulk

  • Smithsonian (Alvin)

    • Also interested in using ORCID -- has been working with the API a bit

    • Still experimenting in getting data into VIVO in bulk -- have RDF graph and SPARQL questions rather than VIVO-specific questions -- it’s pretty different from row and column  database

    • Chris -- the SPARQL book from O’Reilly is useful

    • Alvin -- taking a course from LibraryJuice Academy on SPARQL --  have one on RDF, too. More info: http://www.libraryjuiceacademy.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=84 

  • Scripps (Michaeleen) - no update

  • Memorial (Max and Lisa)

    • Making progress -- and no ice on the roads, but icebergs coming down from the Arctic -- having days of 28 Celsius, with a cool breeze in the evening

    • Continuing toward the re-release of Yaffle based on the new ontology; working on the Drupal VIVO integration (done by Miles Worthington) using the API, so the content will be both ingested and managed within Drupal but written to VIVO

      • this will be available for others to use, as will the Knowledge Mobilization ontology

      • has requested the the Ontology Team review the Knowledge Mobilization ontology

      • having issues importing the ontology in VIVO 1.6.3

    • Max will work with Miles Worthington to match up the Drupal entities to the VIVO classes

  • IFPRI

  • Fundaçao Getulio Vargas

  • Florida (Chris)

    • In the process of upgrading to 1.6 and that’s the big focus now

    • have finished the major focus of ingesting grants, publications, and people and are modifying the SPARQL constructs to create the RDF in the new ontology

    • Another big project in Health Sciences Center to collect faculty CVs using RedCap and correcting educational background and adding missing pubs from PubMed, as well as pictures -- then all of that will be brought into VIVO

  • Emory (Mary and Daniel)

    • Currently in the same position as last update -- working through the XSLTs to do the mapping between Symplectic and VIVO -- have most of what we originally envisioned importing and in the next week or so hope to do the initial mass integration

    • Had been advised to reach out to the current maintainer of the Harvester -- who is John Fereira

      • no recent commits -- is work happening?

      • yes -- John is preparing an ingest workshop for the Conference

    • Mary -- also developing an alpha state of VIVO using Symplectic data to facilitate feedback

      • also interest in developing a widget to use on departmental websites -- as Duke has done

  • DuraSpace (Layne)

    • working on planning and looking forward to meeting more people in person at the Conference

  • Duke

  • Cornell (Tim, Jim, Jon)

    • working on upgrading VIVO Cornell to 1.7 -- have a few local classes in our 3-tier build

    • building the case for Elements support from Colleges

  • Colorado (Don)

    • Knee-deep in ORCID integration after registering 3300 faculty earlier this week

      • Do the faculty go to ORCID to claim? Yes -- sent out a batch email giving them instructions and showing them examples of what to expect

      • Did not set up the University for trusted party access, just listed as an affiliation

      • When they claim, can poll ORCID for updates on who has claimed

      • Had to work with campus IT to make sure that emails from ORCID won’t be seen as spam

      • A fair amount of opt-out -- 6 people immediately de-activated their iD

      • At the end of 10 days they will send out another email indicating there’s an unclaimed record; if no response, some minimal information is made public

    • Should be able to share some of the Java code to register and poll the ORCID site and update the campus Oracle database

    • Have 1.6 on target for upgrading via the Harvester -- changes to the XSLT and looking forward to the Conference

      • After have upgraded VIVO to 1.6 will look at ingesting into VIVO

    • Have an open  job -- (would be happy to share that with competitors after the job is filled)

  • Brown (Steve)

    • No major changes -- publication editor is in production and being used successfully without instruction; a public email will go out at least to medical faculty this week so expect more activity then

    • Glad to hear about ORCID progress -- hoping to implement

    • When Brown was hiring, re-used a job description so hope can share

 


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