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- Application Contest Winner: Justin Littman, George Washington University, for ORCID2VIVO.
- Linked Data Contest Winner: Nick Benick, Harvard University, Tim Lebo, RPI, Griffin Weber, Harvard University. Cross-Linking DOI Author URIs Using Research Networking Systems
- Linked Data Contest Winner: Roberto Garcia, Jordi Virgili-Goma, and Rosa Gil, Universitat de Lleida. Research outputs in VIVO format, including extensions for research impact
- Linked Data Contest Winner: Chris Barnes, University of Florida. UF Linked Open Data 2008-2015. 18M triples in one file posted to the web.
Congratulations to all the winners for their outstanding work!
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Outreach and engagement working group. The Outreach and Engagement working group will have its second call tomorrow. Calls are every four weeks on Tuesdays at 1 PM eastern US time. See the working group page for call details.
Joint Leadership Group/Steering Group Meeting. The VIVO Leadership Group and Steering Group held a joint meeting along with Duraspace leadership, Wednesday afternoon at the conference. The group reviewed the progress of the project, the budget, hiring, plans for the remainder of the year, and the membership drive. I want to thank all the members of these groups for spending their afternoon discussing VIVO. The group is active, creative, and very engaged. The project is on sound footing and making strong progress as a result of the superb efforts of the VIVO community. The Leadership Group meets quarterly. Their next meeting will be a conference call in November. The Steering Group meets weekly, and after one week off for the conference, they will be meeting again this Friday to review the conference, and consider items for the fall.
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- VIVO Workshop at TIB Hanover, Germany, September 9. Sold out 80 seats in 2 days! Ina Blümel and Lambert Heller are the organizers. And expect to hear more news regarding VIVO in Europe in the coming months
- Software development sprints start in the fall.
- An ontology event will be organized in the fall to develop processes for ontology development and further develop the relationship between the software and the ontology
- Membership drive. We will be asking for your support of the VIVO project.
- New web site. We will be replacing vivoweb.org with a modern, mobile-first, responsive design web-site oriented toward telling the VIVO story.
- Site survey. We will be asking you about your VIVO. Our new survey is greatly simplified – we'd like to hear from as many VIVO sites as possible. The survey will be coming soon.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
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