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Paul: Not sure that our users, care about distributed search. Ann: all opinions are expressed by Mike’s comments and summary.
Tom: decoupling makes a lot of sense and resonates with what Stanford is already doing. It will intersect with their work formalizing APIs and broader VIVO. In terms of the presentation leyers, visualizations, can be swapped across different tools, but their focus is on research intelligence. Not sure how the work of the Product Evolution group is aligned. He wouldn;t wouldn’t rank VIVO Cross-Site search as a top priority, but VIVO Combine is their prioriity priority and he agrees with that and also agrees with the assesment assessment of the scoring group that this is a grantable project.
Mike: thinks that all Qs raised during this discussion need to be conveyed to the community as some artefact, a statement to keep the community informed. This should be the next step following the conversation.
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