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- more explicitly developing and prioritizing issues for upcoming releases
- establishing sub-groups to work on specific areas of interest such as provenance
- providing opportunities for training on ontologies and how they are used in VIVO
- evaluating existing and new tools to support ontology creation, editing, change management, release, and evaluation
- setting up a shared rather than single-user environment for use in training as well as in developing each successive ontology release
- working with members of the development team to design and test improvements to the VIVO ontology editor and/or features of VIVO to better manage and reflect ontology-related requirements, including VIVO's additional operational ontologies including the application configuration ontology, display model ontology, authentication and authorization ontology
- working with the Vitro code base as an ontology-driven application platform for projects unrelated to VIVO including Semantic Web education and training
- adapting and extending the VIVO/Integrated Semantic Framework (ISF) ontology for new domains, preferably by evaluating and adopting existing ontology efforts by other parties but also by targeted new ontology work
- working with members of other VIVO Working Groups to improve the ontology to support multi-site search, including issues such as sameAs assertions, shared instance data, and linkages to externally-managed terminologies and authoritative name services for people, organizations, geographic locations, events, or projects
- working with representatives of non-academic organizations to better understand the needs of labs, government or non-profit organizations, or consortia adopting VIVOevaluating existing and new tools to support ontology creation, editing, change management, release, and evaluation, ideally in a networked rather than single-user environment
- participating as representatives for VIVO in ontology projects with the W3C or other groups
- establishing a more formal process for moving the Integrated Semantic Framework forward through public releases, in coordination with the eagle-i community and other interested parties and not necessarily strictly tied to VIVO software releases
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