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- Brown - (Steve) - From the ontological perspective are still focused on mapping in the various document types and adding a couple of roles to the CV data in terms of service to the university
- In today's stakeholders meeting, questions about dealing with adjunct and visiting appointments where people will appear, disappear, and sometimes re-appear. It's not always clear what the positions are, and discrepancies between what the university calls a position and what the person themselves wishes to be called
- Duke – (Amber) Meeting with Elements team members this afternoon to plan a communication plan for Scholars at Duke (VIVO) and Elements – workflows are being developed now that will involve faculty engaging for publications with Elements that will then feed to Scholars at Duke.
- Also having the same conversation about defining positions, as is Memorial University, where they are looking at the lifecycle of the person through their career at the university
- EPA
- Florida – (Nicholas) – found the data problem that caused VIVO not to be able to index – a form feed pasted from a PDF in VIVO in March, 2011 – they had noticed problems in indexing from v1.4 where incremental indexes did not complete. Could not re-create the bug unless you upload the bad data as an n-triples file, not via cutting and pasting again; you can't re-create the problem, nor could you get the data out because would get the same bug.
- Also had a request to generate all the publications of 900+ CTSA investigators at Florida in the past year – worked all a roster by UFID
- Are also adding PubMedCentral identifiers and grants cited to publications to help ensure the accuracy and completeness of reporting
- Memorial University of Newfoundland – (Lisa and John) – the Advisory Committee for the project of upgrading Yaffle are looking at upgrading the back end with VIVO, and will be rolling this out to other universities, too. A meeting last week with government, university, and public stakeholders resulted in approval to move forward in a project funded for two years. Have a VIVO development instance and have been populating; have a tool and workflow already so will be working primarily on changes to the back end to drive Yaffle from a triple store.
- Johns Hopkins - (Jing) – trying to find a way to merge profile information from different sources including departmental, center, and individual research lab pages. On the ontology side are looking at the model for research areas and their descriptions.
- Jon – would be helpful to
- NARCIS (Netherlands) - Tamy reports that NARCIS has a research classification system in place for 5-6 years already, where researchers are given one or more classifications. In VIVO can run an analysis based on the Map of Science off of the journals that articles have been published in, so mapped the NARCIS classifications and looked at the results. There are always holes, but the NARCIS system is quite extensive, although based on expertise more on department level.
- Skyped in to the VIVO workshop in Amsterdam last Friday – presentations on visualizations, and Nick Veenstra presented the work at Eindhoven; NARCIS is looking at VIVO and has started an implementation that is not public yet. They are looking at the differences between faculty in the European system vs. the American, where even the word Faculty does not map across in a clear way. British and American systems are likely to be more similar to each other than to continental European models of academic positions and hierarchies.
- Looking at national ontologies, and also following what the euroCRIS community is developing
- Jon/Brian – there is an active partnership between VIVO and euroCRIS through the euroCRIS Linked Open Data Task Group, and a paper on mapping between CERIF and VIVO is in press
- The ability to represent primary European academic personnel categories is important to the CTSAconnect Integrated Semantic Framework as well
- Scripps
- UCLA (will join next time)
- Weill Cornell – (Paul) – still dealing with who is and who isn't faculty
- Cornell Ithaca – Jon and Brian – working on new optional page templates with horizontal tabs for each of the VIVO property groups rather than the current vertical layout
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