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  1. Review agenda: Mike, 5 minutes
  2. Welcome new and returning Leadership Group members: Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik, Hannah Sommers and Alex Viggio: Mike, 5 minutes
  3. Developing a Roadmap. Mike, round-table discussion. 25 minutes.
    1. Revised Technical Initiatives Doc
    2. Initiatives worksheet
  4. Proposal for choosing five Steering Group members: Mike, 5 minutes

    See procedure outlined here.

  5. Grant opportunities: Terrie Wheeler, 15 minutes.  See VIVO Grant Funding Opportunities
  6. Future agenda items: All, 5 minutes

Notes

  • Welcome to new and returning Leadership Group members.
    • Christian - hosting a VIVO workshop on Sept. 17 and 18
    • Violeta - newly elected
    • Alex - reelected
    • Hannah - reelected
  • Roadmap doc
    • Mike: We've removed a couple that have already been done. The first 3 are underway via the Task Force process.
    • Javed: ontology improvement task force - we worked to bring together ontologies into a single file. We can finally point at it.
    • Mike: We've added another 35 to do items, one of which is accessible themes. I get one inquiry per month asking about VIVO's accessibility.
    • Spreadsheet: column for impact and effort, which would be a score from 1-10. Another column is component.
    • Mike: Julia suggested a first scoring should be done by a small group, but I'm happy that anyone could do that.
    • Paul: I care about Product Evolution efforts including performant index and refined interface.
    • Javed: I'm noticing some initiatives that are short-term and others that are more long-term.
    • Jean: the process sounds fine.
    • Hannah: I think we should note dependencies.
    • DJ: process looks good.
    • Christian: I can add some info and will provide info.
    • Ann: it's important to get wider input
    • Mike/Terrie: if we're going to address grant funding, we would need to look to how these features could be incorporated into core.
    • Mike to send out a request for scoring. There will then be a scoring and reconciliation process.
  • Procedure for Steering Group members
    • Mike: thanks for everyone voting. We had votes from all but one people eligible to vote. Nice job, all.
    • The nominations for Steering Group comes from the Leadership group. We will be opening up nominations this afternoon. Nominations will be open for 7 days. 
  • Grant funding
    • Violeta: I need access to the folder but that probably needs to be fixed at the top level.
    • Mike: JenaConnectifier and ReCiter could be included in VIVO Combine. 
    • Mike: we're of course interested in European grant opportunities.
    • Christian: we had some problems finding programs that are applicable to both US and European countries. You don't exactly qualify as a developing country.
    • Mike: this will always be a problem. It's difficult to have international participation in grants unless it's specifically called for.... Sometimes funders including foundations are more amenable to negotiation.
    • Erin: That has been my experience working with the Mellon Foundation.
    • Violeta: sometimes you can ask personal contacts, "How does this idea sound?"
    • Erin: I have contacts at IMLS. That might be appropriate.
    • Tom: Mellon is very much into open science. Sloan is more into community and the arts, and they may be more of a stretch. Same with IMLS.
    • Violeta: I have some contacts at Sloan.
    • Mike: we should remember that this is potential funding for people at your institution. Securing funding can help change the conversation at the institution.
    • Tom: How does this Grants sheet overlap with the technical initiatives and product evolution group, if at all? (It seems to me that Product Evolution is a grantable activity)
    • Tom: is everyone who can/should comment on this doc within Leaders? I wonder about if and when it might be surfaced to others in the VIVO community not on this call

      With Mellon and Sloan, yes.... Mike: I'm fine with opening it for editing. Christian: the Danish people are very successful with funding. I would consider posting it to everyone. Terrie: I think it would be helpful if we targeted specific people in the organization.

    • Mike: if you want to see something in the VIVO Updates, send me something by Saturday.
  • Mike: any future items you would like to see?
    • Violeta: VIVO marketing
    • Erin: ResearchGraph
    • Tom: when will there be a proposal for the next conference? Mike: we're expecting a proposal on August 6. Tom: we were also thinking about a research intelligence conference in North America. Mike: yes, I think that might be worth exploring. Tom: there's an opportunity to combine with the Pure user group.