VIVO Hackathon this week!
We have guest hackers coming to Gainesville arriving Wednesday and departing Saturday. We welcome them to Gainesville and to the VIVO community. We’ll have a report next week.
VIVO Implementation Fest June 23-24, St. Louis
The VIVO Implementation Fest will be held June 23-24 in St. Louis at Washington University School of Medicine. We have quite a bit of planning and materials to organize. If you know of schools implementing VIVO and/or looking for extensive implementation guidance and support, please have them contact one of the team leads.
UF Faculty Senate
A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to present to the UF Faculty Senate. Valrie Davis and Judy Russell, our library director, were in attendance. It was a pleasure to present to so many old friends and to have VIVO recognized as an information item of value to the faculty. Dr. Bernie Machen, the president of the university was in attendance. The talk was brief and emphasized the scale of the project and the value of VIVO to the faculty, particularly in the area of interdisciplinary research. There were few questions – the Senate is typically pushed for time – but afterwards, colleagues expressed significant interest.
I used the opportunity to familiarize myself with the University of Florida institutional repository – could I place a copy of my presentation there and link to it from VIVO? It was easy to deposit my slides in UF Digital Collections (http://www.ufdc.ufl.edu) and then to add the presentation to VIVO using self-editing and add the URL of the presentation in Digital Collections to the presentation object in VIVO. I got a bit of help from Jon and Val.
You can see the presentation object (and the presentation) at http://vivo.ufl.edu/display/n60996
As a faculty member, and a frequent presenter, the methods that I used here are important to me. I can put my presentation in a safe place – UF Digital Collections, with a stable URL, and provide information on my VIVO profile regarding the presentation. I can provide the location of the presentation, its date and other details that are useful in a wide range of scenarios, from reporting to reuse.
I believe many faculty will find such a collection of services (presentation in repository, presentation on profile and link between them) to be simple to manage and of professional value.
The VIVO Wiki
The VIVO SourceForge wiki is making very good progress. Since last week, 21 new pages have been added to the wiki including guides for system administration, installation and data management. Categories have been cleaned up and continue the natural evolution of categories as pages are added.
Three methods for finding things:
- Search. The wiki search works quite well. Be sure the scan the search results which show where your search words were found in pages.
- Navigation. The left hand menu has a simple top level navigation. Many pages provide navigation to related topics.
- Categories. Click on “Categories” in the left hand menu. Most pages exist in multiple categories. Pages about UF implementation, for example, would appear in the Implementation category (all pages about implementation) and in the UF category (all pages about UF VIVO). This makes finding relevant pages straightforward. Please consider using the categories to find pages of interest.
Editing VIVO wiki pages
Please do! Fix factual errors. Add additional detail. Add references and example. Fix formatting and spelling. Add categories. If you have better information than you have found on a wiki page, please edit it.
New to editing wiki pages? There’s never been a better time to learn. Get Source Forge account. Ask one of the site administrators to authorize you for editing, then start editing. For an introduction to editing on the wiki, see MediaWiki Help
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 01:22, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
