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Many institutions that have implemented VIVO have expressed the need for the development of new and improved visualization applications. The current visualization tools that are part of VIVO were created by Indiana University several years ago and have not been updated, include code that does not meet the requirements for moving VIVO from incubator to project status, and do not function correctly, thus misrepresenting data or unable to represent dataoriginated with VIVO are no longer being maintained and do not yield accurate results, and the code does not meet current standards. Since the initial visualization tool was tools were developed, other local, open source visualization tools have become availablebeen developed. For example, Northwestern University uses Lattice Grid to visualize VIVO data with a suite of their own tools. A plethora of commercially available visualization tools are available, and number of other open source solutions adapted at local institutions may now be available. One set of these tools could be adapted to ship with VIVO "out of the box." In addition, the core VIVO code needs may need to be modified so that it is modular and capable of accommodating any number of visualization plug ins. This capable of being integrated with the new tools.
Recently, Registered Service Provider Symplectic has offered to make a resource available to adapt a new visualization toolset for general use with VIVO, provided the underlying technology is compatible with their expertise. This task force proposes to organize select a suite of standard visualization tools for use in visualization toolset from potential candidates for distribution with future releases of VIVO, establish a high level project plan, and work with Symplectic to accomplish the adaptation and integration of the visualization tools.
Objectives
- Identify existing open source and commercial visualization tools that could be used in VIVO
- Identify VIVO community members who are using or developing visualization tools
- etc.
Deliverables:
- adapted for general use with VIVO
- Evaluate the candidate tools and select one
- Work with Symplectic resource to outline a project plan for integrating the tools with VIVO
- Review the adaption and integration work as it progresses
Deliverables:
- List of candidate visualization tools
- Evaluation of tools and final selection
- Project plan for adapting, integrating tools
- Delivery of new standard visualization toolsProvide VIVO users with a suite of visualization tools that are compatible with VIVO.
Suggested schedule:
Develop charter | 2 weeks | 2015-02-06 | |||
Solicit members and schedule first meeting | 2 weeks | 2015-03-06 | |||
Develop action items, assign to team members. | 2 weeks | 2015-XX-XX | |||
Accomplish deliverables, preliminary review | 3 weeks | 2015-XX-XX | |||
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Identify candidate visualization tools |
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Evaluate tools and make a selection |
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Get feedback from community |
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| Develop high level project plan for adoption and integration of tool | |||||
| Review first iteration of tool | |||||
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| Deliver new visualization tools as new standard distribution replacing current tools | Revise deliverables, final review | 2 weeks | 2015-XX-XX
Members
Alex Viggio
Someone from Mike Winkler's staff at U Penn
Jonathan Breeze? or designees
Name and Affiliation - task force lead
Name and Affiliation - facilitator
Name and Affiliation - member
Name and Affiliation - member
others to be solicited from the VIVO Community
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