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Link to temporal Google doc for meeting notes: http://goo.gl/ZXvJ4K

Announcements

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call September 23 at 1pm ET

• Ontology Working Group: next call October 7 at 1pm ET

  • On the Tuesdays when there is not a call, there will be Ontology Office Hours using the same call-in information as the main Ontology calls

• VIVO Hackathon: October 13-15

  • Where: Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
  • Who: Anyone interested in participating and hopefully contributing to the development, documentation, or testing of VIVO software, the VIVO-ISF ontology, or apps & tools to produce, visualize, or leverage VIVO data
  • Cost: No registration fee. You pay your travel, hotel, and meals. We provide space, access to Cornell VIVO developers, and refreshments.

  • Tracks/topics discussed at https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/Z4arAw
    

Theme: VIVO Visualization Working Group?

High level questions

1. How should VIVO be updated in such a way to allow developers to more readily develop and integrate visualizations?
   1. Do visualizations belong in the core?
   2. How might the VIVO community be involved, to reduce cost of initial development and of long term maintenance?
   3. Can we build a working group to do this soon?
   4. Can we clarify what people working on the core need to do to support a visualization effort -- how would this fit with priorities for core development?
   5. How to facilitate visualization development without requiring Java development expertise?
2. Which technologies are best-suited and most versatile for creating visualizations within VIVO?
   1. Existing visualization libraries
   2. OpenSocial, other?
3. What is the best process by which new visualizations would be decided upon?
4. Which visualizations and what use cases do they address?
   
   

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