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Special Presentation on Karma by Pedro Szekely

Pedro Szekely of the USC Information Sciences Institute will give a special presentation on the VIVO call this week.

Abstract

We present Karma, an open-source information integration tool that allows a user to quickly map legacy data sources into RDF that can then be loaded into VIVO.  Karma provides the ability to

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Zip archive of all files used in webinar

Q&A

What is Karma implemented with?

• Java server 
• Javascript user interface (using D3.js http://d3js.org)
• builds on top of Jena, but planning to decouple to support OWLIM and other triple stores
• Pedro mentioned a "wrapper" utility – add a link here, e.g. http://www.w3.org/wiki/ConverterToRdf or something like that?

2013 Implementation Fest plans

• Thursday and Friday, April 25-26 have been selected as the dates for the VIVO Implementation Fest, with some further consideration of a community hands-on developer day either Wednesday the 24th or Saturday the 27th.
• Stay tuned for a preliminary program for discussion on next week's call.

Updates

We will do updates only in any time remaining following the special presentation. If you have have updates this week, please enter them here and/or send news or questions to the development or implementation lists.

• Brown
• Buffalo
• Colorado
  • v1.5.1 finally in production for Boulder (http://vivo.colorado.edu) supporting more incremental data updates
• Cornell
  
  • Thanks for the responses to the quick survey: https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dhc1ASA5Nx28dP7
    
    • Responses are still welcome.
  • Thanks to those who "Show me your code!" (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30379968) – just starting to analyze.
    
    • Responses are still welcome.
• Duke
• Florida
• Indiana
• Johns Hopkins --
• Memorial University --
• NYU –
• Scripps --
• Stony Brook
• UCSF –
• Washington University --
• Weill Cornell --
• other --

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