Tech Lead Search. Thanks to all who participated in the tech lead search open calls and to those who completed on-line candidate feedback. We have three strong candidates and received significant and extremely useful feedback from the on-line process. We expect an offer to be made very soon.
CASRAI/ORCID event in Barcelona. I had an opportunity to attend the CASRAI/ORCID event in Barcelona, as did Brian Lowe. Presentations over the two day conference focused on research impact – how to assess the value to society of research expenditures by funding agencies. The conference was focused on European processes and there are perspectives from the EU as well as each country's national perspectives. VIVO can play an important role in assembling data regarding research for the purpose of assessing impact
VIVO in Europe. I am writing this update from Barcelona where I am attending a joint CASRAI/ORCID event to promote open scholarship and an open scholarly ecosystem. VIVO plays a critical role in these efforts. I hope to learn more and promote VIVO in collaboration with European partners. If you have ideas regarding VIVO in Europe – how adoption can be encouraged, and relationships to other activities at European universities and research institutes, please share your ideas with any member of the Steering Group.
Tech Lead Search. The search committee has identified candidates for the VIVO Tech Lead position. The candidates will be scheduled for open calls with the VIVO community. Anyone can attend. Look for email regarding dates and times for these important calls.
Task force work continues. The four current task forces continue their work. The asset task force asked for comments on its inventory of VIVO assets. Thanks to those who provided feedback. Contributed software continues their efforts to recommend processes for community created software to become distributed with the VIVO core. The User Stories Task Force produced their first story – VIVO at Brown – you can find it on the VIVO blog at http://vivoweb.org/blog. Great work! I met with the Implementation Documentation task force. They are creating an outline of materials site's need to put up a VIVO, fill it with data, maintain it, and support various uses. Please contact the task force chairs or members with your thoughts and contributions on any of these efforts. You can find the task forces in the left hand menu on the home page of the VIVO wiki. http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO
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