Mozilla Open Science Hackathon. On June 2 and June 3, Mozilla will host a global open science hackathon. VIVO participated last year, working on ORCID2VIVO, and generating ideas that led to features in OpenVIVO. Interested in participating? Have ideas for the hackathon? Just curious about what a hackathon is, and how it might help VIVO and open science? See 2016 Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint in the wiki and contact Alex Viggio with questions, ideas, interest.
Apps and Tools Call. The Apps and Tools Interest Group will have its call this Thursday at 1 PM US Eastern time. Apps and Tools features short presentations by VIVO implementors and developers regarding tools they have created for use with VIVO. Many of these tools are available in the Community Projects catalog. These tools may help you with your implementation, with improving your VIVO services, or give you ideas about how you might use VIVO.
Force16. The Force16 conference in Portland was fabulous in low small part due to the incredible leadership and vision of the conference chair, and VIVO Steering Committee member, Melissa Haendel of Oregon Health and Sciences University. The "Force" idea grew out of a small meeting at UCSD called "Beyond the PDF" – an eclectic group of people seeking to create new forms of scholarly communication, going beyond the published paper to include all forms of scholarly work, and making room for data, visualizations, software, and other contributions that the current scholarly ecosystem currently finds difficult to support. Force11 is the name of the organization. You can find them here: http://force11.org. There will be a call for proposals to host Force17 in the near future. OpenVIVO debuted at Force16 and was very well-received. You can find the poster on Figshare and in OpenVIVO (imagine that).
OpenVIVO. A VIVO anyone can join. Have you tried OpenVIVO? It's easy. Get an ORCiD at http://orcid.org and sign on to OpenVIVO at http://openvivo.org OpenVIVO received many positive comments and tweets at its debut at Force16. Force16 used OpenVIVO to represent its scholarship – attendees registered with their ORCiD and provided their work to Figshare, tagging the work force16. using the public Figshare API, the OpenVIVO Task Force developed software to identify tagged works in Figshare, gather their metadata, and create RDF for VIVO. The RDF was then loaded to VIVO. You can find the figshare ingest software on GitHub: https://github.com/openvivo/figshare-rdf The result is an event page in OpenVIVO that contains a roster of attendees and a roster of works, creating a record of the conference. See http://openvivo.org/display/eventFORCE2016. The VIVO Conference (August 17-19, Denver) plans to use the same approach.
VIVO User Group Meeting, May 5-6, Chicago. It's 10 days or so until the first VIVO User Group meeting in Chicago. Still time to register and attend. http://vivousergroup.eventbrite.com The meeting will provide an important opportunity to discuss directions for the future of VIVO. Many ideas for VIVO have been generated through the roadmap process, the "I wish I could use VIVO to ..." survey, steering and leadership calls, and community participation on VIVO email lists. You can find a synthesis of ideas, open for comment here. The ideas are not presented in any order.
Open Repositories. Graham Triggs and I will be in Dublin for Open Repositories, June 13-16. We hope to see you there!
Did we launch OpenVIVO? Yes, we did. See http://openvivo.org Have an ORCID? Sign on. Don't have an ORCID? Get an ORCID at http://orcid.org and sign on. It's that easy. If you follow VIVO on Twitter (@vivocollab) you'll see good people saying nice things about OpenVIVO. It would be great if you did that too!
Dozens of people at Force16 have signed on. All the Force16 presentations are being posted in Figshare and are available in OpenVIVO here: http://openvivo.org/display/eventFORCE2016. As of this writing, OpenVIVO has data for 210 people, 560 academic works, and 769 attributions associated with academic works. All the data is published hourly to http://openvivo.org
You may want to promote OpenVIVO. Here's a flyer that describes it's features. Feel free to print and share the flyer, or use text from the flyer in your own materials.
OpenVIVO is a VIVO everyone can join. It is the joint work of the OpenVIVO Task Force, the Force11 Attribution work group and OpenRIF. What a great job these people did to design and build OpenVIVO.
We hope you try OpenVIVO and share your thoughts about it on one of the VIVO Google Groups.
Implementation Call. Implementing VIVO? Join us this Thursday at 1 PM, we will have a Implementation Interest Group call. It's a friendly group. New to VIVO, this is a great place to introduce yourself and your project and share your thoughts and questions about implementing VIVO.
Need help with your VIVO implementation? VIVO works with companies that can help you:
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You can find contact information on the VIVO web site here: http://vivoweb.org/community/service-providers
Do you represent a company that works with VIVO and could provide services to sites looking to implement VIVO? Please contact us to become a registered service provider for VIVO.
You can help VIVO.
- Plan to attend the User Group Meeting. The VIVO User Group Meeting will be held in Chicago, May 5-6. You can register at http://vivousergroup.eventbrite.com
- Help build financial support for VIVO. Join the Membership Task Force. Contact Jonathan Markow
- Help us identify needs for VIVO. I wish I could use VIVO to ... Complete the sentence here: http://goo.gl/forms/u7mqR0OrCv. Click the link. Will take two minutes or less. We will use the results to help plan future features.
Sea Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the Publishing Ecosystem. On April 21, I'll be in Washington DC, presenting on collaboration in science and the role of the scholarly data ecosystem and systems like VIVO to improve collaboration and science. Perhaps I'll see you there! http://allenpress.com/events/seminar
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director