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The move to the new lists will be done over the coming weeks. Please continue to use the old lists until the new ones are in place. We hope these changes are an improvement, simplifying the lists, clarifying their purpose and improving service to the community. For an overview of the changes, review of purpose, and methods for migration, see https://goo.gl/sQ5onA
VIVO Site Registry. Interested in performance benchmarking? Please plan to join the Weekly Implementation and Development Calls this Thursday at 1 PM eastern US time for a discussion of possible benchmarking of future releases of VIVO. Using standard data sets, standard hardware configurations and standard work mixes, we hope to produce benchmark timings of VIVO performance. This should help us quantify improvements in VIVO software performance over time, measure the impact of alternate triple stores on performance, and provide assistance to sites looking to improve the performance of their local implementations. What should be included? How might benchmarks help your site? Join the discussion Thursday.Ever wanted to know how many VIVO sites there are in Canada? Or who might be using what versions of VIVO? Or who you might be able to contact at a particular VIVO site? VIVO is improving its data about its sites and we need your help. A new registry of VIVO sites can be found on the Duraspace web site at http://duraspace.org/registry/vivo. More than 100 VIVO sites are listed. Our information about each site is somewhat limited. Please check your site. If your site is not on the list, please add it. If the information regarding your site needs to be updated, please let Duraspace know using the link on the registry site. With your help, we should be able to substantially improve information about who is using VIVO.
Visualizations. The visualizations in VIVO continue to be improved. Please see the 1.8.1 release notes and New Visualizations in 1.8.1. The new visualizations do not require Flash, and so will display on mobile devices such as phones and tablets. The visualizations use D3, a Javascript library for rendering. The new visualizations are larger, use more color, and render faster. They are optional in 1.8.1, but could become the default in future releases. Please let Graham Triggs know what you thinkVisualizations. Much of what VIVO is doing in modeling and representing data regarding scholarship, employs patterns and techniques that are well-developed across the semantic web and linked data communities. Issues of ontology design, construction and use of URI, cross-site linking and more are common issues. A free eBook by Leigh Dodds and Ian Darby, Linked Data Patterns, collects the discussions of these issues from the Linked Data email lists and presents them as a series of recommendations. See http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
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