2013-03-20 VIVO Ontology Call

Agenda

please add or suggest any additional items

Updates

• Brown – 
• Duke –
• Florida – 
• Johns Hopkins – 
• Memorial University of Newfoundland –
• NARCIS (Netherlands) – 
• Scripps –
• UCLA –
• Weill Cornell – 
• Cornell Ithaca – 

Current open issues

Research area/interest and description (JHU) - Some faculty would like to separate expertise from research interest, and have description associated with each research area.  For a faculty with several research areas, vivo:researchOverview need be sliced for consumption by a project website, which only display description of one or two research areas.

In a brief discussion on the 2013-02-06 VIVO Ontology Call, we ascertained that the descriptions of research interests need to be separate entities linked to both the person and the research area, a concept typically from a controlled vocabulary, that may be linked to by several people and/or organizations or projects. This is not a role but more of an annotation on the connection between the person and the research area or topic.

In continuing the discussion on this call, Brian mentioned a recent focus by the W3C on support for annotations via the http://openannotation.org/spec/core – it seems more straightforward than reification (giving an RDF statement its own URI and adding multiple additional statements about that statement) and appears to be intended for a similar purpose (applying terminology to resources) to what Jing describes as the use case at Hopkins.

See the Research Areas, Keywords, Interests and Expertise page for additional discussion.

Implementation Fest planning

• Will be held Thursday and Friday, April 25-26 in Boulder, Colorado, a 45-minute bus ride from Denver International Airport
• Read the vivoweb.org blog entry, and the 2013 VIVO Implementation Fest page has information on transportation and hotels
• A registration page is now live – note that there is no registration fee for the workshop
• A DRAFT schedule is available for preview on sched.org (including for mobile view) and as a Google Doc
• There will be several ontology sessions at the event, including overviews of the existing ontology and recent CTSAconnect work on bringing the VIVO and eagle-i ontologies together.  Working sessions will address open issues where improvements or extensions have been requested
• Nicholas Rejack will be offering his popular SPARQL 101 and SPARQL 201 sessions
• Please add suggestions for areas of discussion here, which we will try to accommodate in the schedule as we develop it.
  
  • Research grants – what are the differences between grants, awards, and contracts?  How do NIH and NSF (and other funding agencies) model grants, so that VIVO can align data harvested from NIH RePorter or research.gov?
  • Distinctions among North American, British, continental European, Australian and New Zealand academic position types
  • The Open Annotation Data Model and its potential use to annotate researcher associations with areas of interest or expertise
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• A community hands-on development day is planned as an optional additional activity on Saturday the 27th, e.g. working on internationalization
• Alex has been looking into options for videoconferencing certain events where interest is strong from people who can't attend
  
  • Stony Brook is generously offering use of their multi-point H.323 bridge to support better-than-desktop quality video
  
  
  

Report from the CTSA Ontology Workshop

• The workshop agenda included some VIVO and CTSAconnect presentations on the Integrated Semantic Framework and Kristi Holmes discussing Impact Assessment and Evaluation
  
  

Other issues as time permits

• Jon has created a page on Representing and displaying re-publication or performance 

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