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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.
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
Mozilla Science Global Sprint. The Mozilla Global Science team will hold its second annual global sprint on June 4-5. This is an opportunity for people in the open source science community to learn about VIVO, and a chance for us to spend a couple of days producing things of value for VIVO. I plan to be on line those days contributing to the sprint. Please contact Alex Viggio if you have ideas about how we might participate.
Upcoming events.
- Mozilla Science Global Sprint. On-line/world-wide. June 4-5. See https://www.mozillascience.org/global-sprint-2015
- Open Repositories. Indianapolis, IN. June 8-9. See http://or2015.net
- VIVO Conference. Cambridge, MA. August 12-15. See http://vivoconference.org. Register today!
- VIVO Europe. TIB Hanover. Sept 9.
Apps and Tools call. Ted Lawless reports "On May 21st, the VIVO Apps and Tools working group met. Jim Blake from the Cornell team described how he used the VIVO SPARQL API to debug an issue (issue 898 https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/VIVO-898). He walked everyone through techniques for saving SPARQL queries as text files and running them from a terminal with curl. Rodney Jacobson, from Dartmouth College, demonstrated a VIVO data ingest tool that he developed with Python. His unique approach is able to learn from sample data loaded into a VIVO and map new data in CSV format to VIVO RDF. Rodney's code is available on Github (https://github.com/jacobsonr/vivo-csv-tools).
The Apps and Tools call will meet again on June 19th. Presentation slots are still available (5 to 10 minutes) and interested presenters can sign up at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18t0TNc56Xx1wPlDIgmV4lEp03qNM1mRRG8Un3mq8_gU/edit"
Leadership Leadership Group meeting June 2. In a couple of weeks, the VIVO Leadership Group will have their quarterly meeting. They will review progress since the March meeting at the Duraspace Summit, review the budget and consider a proposal to increase the size of Steering Group. If your institution is not yet participating in the Leadership Group, you may wish to consider your level of membership and how you might participate. The Leadership Group meets again at the conference.
Membership drive. VIVO is always seeking new members – organizations that can financially support VIVO or commit significant developer time to the improve VIVO. You can find information regarding membership in VIVO on the Duraspace web site at http://www.duraspace.org/about_membership
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