VIVO Version 1.1!

The development team announces today the release of VIVO 1.1! The source is available at vivoweb.org and vivo.sourceforge.net. This release makes major steps forward on separation of presentation from control logic and ontology; significant improvements in editing and presentation; addition of the Harvester software for ingest of data and incorporation of visualizations into VIVO.
The release marks another milestone for our development processes – code and release management, automated and user testing.

Congratulations to all involved!
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ou’ve probably seen the announcement via our blog, our RSS feed, and/or our Facebook page. If you haven’t seen it yet, you might want to consider getting hooked up to one of these sources. Regardless, you can follow the link here to the announcement: http://www.vivoweb.org/blog/2010/07/release-1-v-11-announcement
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VIVO Team Meeting is Wednesday August 11

Mark your calendars. The VIVO One Year Team Meeting is coming up fast! Please either plan to attend in person (at Weill Medical College) or virtually through GoTo Meeting. We’ll start at 11 AM EDT and finish around 5 PM. The meeting will be an important opportunity for you to share your thoughts and help plan our coming year. We’ll have team break out sessions, all team sessions and themed breakouts.
As preparation for the meeting, please complete the VIVO Team survey. This will take you 5 to 10 minutes to complete. It provides invaluable feedback for everyone on the project. You can find the survey at: https://survey.wustl.edu/limesurvey/

As additional preparation for the meeting, you may wish to review the VIVO annual report to the NIH. This 20 page reports documents the work of the first 8 months of the project – September 25, 2009 to June 30, 2010. You can find the annual report here: https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/109226296/11B_Progress+Report+CONTINUED+v4.pdf

VIVO Conference

Please plan to attend the first annual VIVO National Conference at the NY Hall of Science August 12-13. The conference is attracting interest from around the project, the country and the world. We have over 170 registrants and the number grows every day. It will be quite an event. I think you will enjoy the Hall of Science, but be prepared – we will be sharing this fantastic location with its natural audience – children! The NY Hall of Science is an incredible science museum for children. There will be many children of all ages on site during our time at the Hall. I believe you will be touched by their infectious enthusiasm, creativity and intuitive love of science and discovery. What could be better than being reminded how we came to love science. Please take a minute here and there throughout the conference to perhaps stop and listen and even help a child with an exhibit and become part of the work of the NY Hall of Science.
VIVO Team Office Pool – Guess the final registrant count!

You may wish to send me (Mike Conlon, http://vivo.ufl.edu/individual/mconlon) your guess for the final registration count of the VIVO conference. The closest in absolute value (you can be over or under as long as you are the closest) to the final count a the close of the conference on August 13 will win VIVO merchandise personally purchased by me for the winner. No grant or conference funds will be used to fund prizes. You must make your entry by sending me your specific number guess by email by midnight EDT Monday August 9. All team members are eligible. If there is more than one winner, all will receive prizes. You do not need to be present to win.

To level the playing field, here is what we know so far. There are 170 registrants as of this evening. We are currently adding 1-2 per day. Our conference planners expect last minute registrants as well as on site registrants. The absolute maximum we will allow to register is 300 – this is the maximum capacity of the plenary session auditorium at the Hall.

Please do not violate any state, local, agency, employer, office or other laws, policies, procedures, cultural or personal norms by participating in this office pool. If you are unable or unwilling to participate, we certainly understand.

VIVO at NSF

VIVO is featured on the cover of the August NSF Current newsletter. See: http://www.nsf.gov/news/newsletter/aug_10/index.jsp#work3

Ideas, Questions, Comments

Have an idea, question, or comment about VIVO? Pass along your thoughts to your team lead for inclusion in the wiki!