Here we recap the events of the past month.

Conference

The 2019 VIVO Conference will be in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 4-6, 2019. Announcement here: https://duraspace.org/save-the-date-vivo-2019-september-4-6-podgorica-montenegro/

Action Planning

Vision. Has not met.
Governance and Structure. Is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM US Eastern. The survey has closed and Daniel is writing a narrative to summarize results.
Product Evolution. Meets weekly Wednesday 11 AM US Eastern. Meeting notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhsW7EKhQyfHRrzh7wZNziosJAfliduXxQQVcT1w0bI/edit# See Slack channel for pinned items and conversation. Is developing a VIVO-sourced, developer friendly data model for driving an interface. The group recently defined a preliminary data model and is discussing ways to provide a GraphQL instance for community testing.
Community Development. Is meeting monthly. We've been talking about defining our subcommunities, and we have devised four primary use cases for implementing/supporting VIVO.
Resources. Is meeting bi-weekly. In the last meeting, Erin talked about the SCOSS funding opportunity and the group discussed possible ideas for funding. The preliminary application was submitted last week by Erin and Carol Minton Morries. Contact Terrie Wheeler for details.

Membership Task Force.
Development. Andrew Woods organizes.
Research Intelligence. Group is forming. Has not yet met. See Research Intelligence Task Force
Ontology. Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Mike Conlon. Current work in two areas: 1) identifiers and attributes of identifiers such as ORCiD, DOI, GRID, ISSN; 2) languages, language skills, and languages of scholarly works.
Internationalization. Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Kitio Fofackof University of Quebec at Montreal.
Task force home here: Task Forces

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