Here we recap the events of the past month. UPDATES IN PROGRESS.
MOU and Budget
Beginning in September, Julia Trimmer and Mike Conlon worked with Erin Tripp to create a propose Memorandum of Understanding and a proposed budget for 2019.
- Link to MOU here
- Link to Budget here
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/
- The conference committee is meeting every two weeks on Wednesdays at 10 EST.
- Conference progress updates will be posted on the wiki page: VIVO Conference Planning Task Force. We have a keynote speaker and two invited speakers confirmed. Communication about invited seakers is comming up in a couple of weeks. Follow the website: http://vivoconference.org/ for most up to date information. Many potential sponsors have been contacted but no sponsorships have been committed yet.
Action Planning
- Vision. Has not met.
- Governance and Structure. Is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM US Eastern. Daniel has summarized survey results and the group is reviewing the document.
- 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. The group finished a first draft of the data model and has been discussing ways to continue their work in the upcoming sprint.
- Community Development. Is meeting monthly but our group struggles to find time to work outside the committee.
- Resources. Is meeting bi-weekly. Contact Terrie Wheeler for details.
Task Forces
- Membership Task Force: David Wilcox has joined the group to help devise new solutions for increasing VIVO memberships.
- Development meets weekly to discuss and work on VIVO issues. Andrew Woods organizes.
- Research Intelligence Task Force: Group is forming. Has not yet met. Contact Tom Cramer
- Ontology Task Force: 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 Task Force: Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Kitio Fofackof University of Quebec at Montreal.