New Steering Group Members. I'm very pleased to announce that we have three new members of the VIVO Steering Group. Alex Viggio of Symplectic, Julia Trimmer of Duke and Andi Ogier of Virginia Tech have been elected from nominations made by the Leadership Group. They will join Dean B. Krafft, Jon Corson-Rikert, Paul Albert, Robert H. McDonald, Melissa Haendel and Kristi Holmes on the Steering Group. The group meets each week along with myself, Jonathan Markow and debra hanken kurtz of Duraspace to review progress, discuss strategy and set direction for VIVO. This week, two additional members will be elected by the community liaisons representing each VIVO member institution.
Become a VIVO Member. VIVO member institutions support the VIVO project with annual contributions starting as low as $2,500 per year (discounts available for institutions in developing countries.) Membership is critically important for the project, supporting all efforts to improve the software, develop community, spur adoption, and organize events. For a list of member benefits, see About Membership on the Duraspace web siteGraham Triggs is the new VIVO Technical Lead. Please welcome Graham Triggs as the new VIVO Technical Lead. Graham is currently with Symplectic as Head of Repository Systems. Graham is quite familiar with VIVO and engineered and implemented the Symplectic/VIVO connector. He was also a committer to the VIVO 1.8 release. Graham will join the VIVO Project on September 21 and attend the VIVO conference – please introduce yourself. See the full announcement here.
The VIVO Conference is August 12-14 in Cambridge, MA. The VIVO Conference ihas six great workshops that will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about VIVO and related topics:
- Ontology Editing and Creating Semantic Applications. Presenters: Rebecca Younes, Jon Corson-Rikert and Jim Blake, Cornell University
- Getting More From Your VIVO: Generating Reports and Functional Datasets For Analysis. Presenters: Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director; Shahim Essaid, OHSU; Melissa Haendel, OHSU; Kristi Holmes, Northwestern
- Introduction to VIVO: Planning, Policy, and Implementation. Presenters: Julia Trimmer, Duke University; Liz Tomich, University of Colorado-Boulder; Michealeen Trimarchi, Scripps Research Institute; Robert McDonald, Indiana University; Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Altmetrics 101 - Hands on Introduction to Altmetrics. Presenters: Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics; Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric
- Awesome Apps to Enhance Your VIVO. Presenters: Violeta Ilik, Northwestern University, Alexandre Rademaker, Fundação Getulio Vargas & IBM Research, Chris Barnes, University of Florida; Ted Lawless, Brown University; and Jim Blake, Cornell University
- Managing Your Data Flows: Architecture and Data Provenance For Your Institution. Presenters: John Fereira, Cornell University; Violeta Ilik, Northwestern University; Alex Viggio, Symplectic Ltd.
See you in Cambridge at the workshops! Perhaps you have heard that we are holding the sixth annual VIVO Conference in Cambridge, MA, August 12-14. It's not too late to register. The conference will have outstanding keynotes, invited talks, panels, workshops, posters, and provides a fantastic opportunity to meet and discuss VIVO with people you been working with on-line. Hope to see you in Cambridge. Register here: VIVO Conference Registration.
Steering Group elections will be held this week and next. This week Leadership Group members will elect three new members to the Steering Group. Next week, the community liaisons for the 23 VIVO member institutions will elect two additional members to the Steering Group. Is your organization a member? If not, you can join now. Contact me regarding membership for your organization.
Roadmap Task Force is forming. You may have received a separate email from me regarding the formation of the roadmap task force. The task force will meet over the next three weeks to review and analyze the survey results, develop a high-level roadmap, and present that roadmap to the Leadership Group at their next meeting. A draft charter is available here: VIVO Roadmap Task Force. Please contact me if you are interested in serving on this important task force.
We had very good response to the survey. Thanks to all who responded. Community input is a key element in setting direction for the the project. Thanks aginDagstuhl Seminar. I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a week long seminar/workshop in Dagstuhl Germany this past week. The seminar title was Digital Scholarship and Open Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. I presented on VIVO and its role in a digital ecosystem for scholarship. The invitees will develop a position paper to be completed in January 2016. The role of VIVO in representing scholarship and in presenting an integrated view of the scholarly work of individuals and organizations plays a critical role in this emerging ecosystem.
Outreach and Engagement Work Group calls start this Tuesday. As reported previously, the Outreach and Engagement workgroup, co-chaired by Julia Trimmer of Duke and Kristi Holmes of Northwestern, will be restarting its regular call series beginning Tuesday, July 21 at 1 PM Eastern. See Outreach and Engagement Working Group for call details. All are welcome.. The Outreach and Engagement work group had its first call this past Tuesday. Minutes are available here. The group's next call will be August 18. If you have an interest in helping to build VIVO community, please consider joining these calls.
Go VIVOLooking forward to seeing you all in Cambridge!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
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