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The projects then each held breakouts, each with two sessions. The first VIVO session was chaired by Dean B. Krafft and addressed the nature of VIVO, as an application specifically for representing scholarship, and supporting research discovery, and then as a more general semantic web data management tool, capable of hosting other domain specific ontologies and supporting research programs in other areas. The group discussed progress that has been made in supporting sites implementing VIVO. New documentation, better advice, improved interest groups, and other enhancements have led to an improvement in newer sites being able to implement VIVO with less time and effort than in the past. VIVO is still missing important features to provide a compelling adoption story. What should VIVO be able to do in the future? If you could assume that VIVO was loaded with quality data, how would you answer the question "I wish VIVO would could ...."
The second breakout focused on issues related to VIVO membership. Jonathan Markow will chair a membership task force, focused on increasing the number of VIVO members. Robert Cartolano of Columbia, a VIVO Gold Member, offered perspectives on membership from the Fedora project. Several years ago, Fedora needed a significant new approach to membership. Over the years, Fedora tripled its membership. Rob believes VIVO is in a stronger position to begin membership growth. The task force will organize a membership campaign for 2016.
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