VIVO Conference Registration is Now Open!
Early Bird registration is only available until May 27, 2011. Click here to register: http://vivoweb.org/conference
The Gaylord National is offering a $179 discounted room rate for VIVO conference attendees. This discount room rate is only available until July 24, 2011. Click here to reserve your room now. https://reservations.gaylordnational.gaylordhotels.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?procfun+rn+resnet+NAT+funcparms+UP(A2560):;S-UFL11;?%20
Help spread the word!
One of the most effective methods for spreading word about the VIVO conference is email posts to various listservs by VIVO team members.
Summary and full length text announcements are available on the VIVO wiki. Please send the announcements to listservs that might be interested in presenting at or attending this year’s conference. To avoid duplicate listserv posts, add your name, listserv and date for each message sent to the log.
Official Call for Papers & Call for Apps
The Call for Papers is now open, and abstracts are due June 1, 2011. The VIVO team members presented outstanding work at last year’s conference, and we are excited to showcase the VIVO team’s accomplishments at this year’s conference – we look forward to receiving your submissions!
The Call for Apps is also open, and contest entries are due July 31, 2011.
Workshops
We are pleased to announce the following workshops for this year’s conference – congratulations to the workshop facilitators!
Morning workshops
- Introduction to Development on the Open Source VIVO Project (morning session) Stephen V. Williams and Narayan Raum (University of Florida)
- Introduction to Implementation. Leslie McIntosh (Washington University) and John Ruffing (Weill Cornell Medical College)
- Visualization in VIVO: A case study in how VIVO data and technology can be used. Chintan Tank and Katy Börner (Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University)
Afternoon workshops
- Advanced Development on the Open Source VIVO Project (afternoon session). Stephen V. Williams and Narayan Raum (University of Florida)
- Creating Your VIVO Marketing & Outreach Plan. Kaitlin Blackburn, Margeaux Johnson, Hannah Norton and Amy Buhler (University of Florida), Elly Cramer and Elizabeth Hines (Cornell University), Kristi Holmes (Washington University)
- Data Acquisition for VIVO: Extended Ingest By Example. Nicholas Skaggs (University of Florida) and Christopher Westling (Cornell University)
Promotion Materials
Promotion materials for the conference include a flyer, postcard, PPT advertisement and “plain text” emails for listserv distribution – all are available for download on the following page in the Confluence Wiki: https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/ennsrd/2011+VIVO+Conference
If you are asked about the conference, please refer people to the conference web site http://www.vivoweb.org/conference. If you are presenting at an upcoming conference or meeting, please help promote the conference by printing flyers or postcards to handout and including the PowerPoint slide at the end of your talk.
Sponsorship Opportunities
If you know an institution or company who may be interested in sponsoring this year’s conference, please refer them to Alan Frankle at Designing Events (phone 443-213-1950). The sponsorship prospectus is available on the conference web site and outlines the various sponsorship packages available for this year’s conference.
VIVO Projects
Do you know of a group that has a VIVO project underway? Either an implementation, a development or other collaborative project? Please drop us a note. The wiki is collecting information on projects using VIVO – we’d like to get a single page on each one. We know of work in the NIH, Australia, China, at the University of Nebraska, in companies such as Flintbox.com and projects being considered at Community of Science. A single page describing the work would be great. See VIVO Mini-Grant Projects for what we have so far.
Congratulations to UF on its 1.2 Implementation!
UF is now live on VIVO 1.2 (http://vivo.ufl.edu) , joining the Scripps Research Institute (http://vivo.scripps.edu) and Ponce School of Medicine (http://vivo.psm.edu) Features of the UF implementation include:
- Implementation of self-editing via GatorLink, UF’s standard netid implementation of Shibboleth.
- Implementation of the SDB model for data
- Minor branding to emphasize the clean VIVO 1.2 look while conforming with UF identity standards.
- Data from previous versions available in 1.2 – see the Index.
A hearty well done to all involved in this important piece of work!
Ideas for VIVO Notes?
Is there an idea that you would like to see developed in VIVO Notes? Do you have questions or concerns that might best be presented here? Please drop me a note.
Mike Conlon 00:41, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Plain Text Email announcement
A simple plain text announcement for email lists can be found below. You may wish to cut and paste this into communication to various mailing lists.
Announcing the
Second Annual VIVO Conference
August 24-26, 2011
Gaylord National, Washington D.C.
The Second Annual VIVO Conference will bring together scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers,
funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of
team science.
The conference begins with a full day of workshops for those new to VIVO, those implementing VIVO and those
wishing to develop applications using VIVO. Keynote addresses, invited speakers, scientific panels and contributed
papers will cover a range of topics, including the semantic web, linked open data, VIVO sustainability, adopting
and implementing VIVO, research discovery and networking, network visualization, ontology and the role of VIVO in
support of team science. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org/conference
VIVO is an open source, open ontology research discovery platform for hosting information about scientists and
their interests, activities, and accomplishments. VIVO supports open development and facilitates integration of
science through simple, standard semantic web technologies. VIVO is funded by the National Institutes of Health,
U24 RR029822. Learn more at http://vivoweb.org
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