2014-04-24 Implementation and Development Call

Announcements

• News Release: Layne Johnson is the New VIVO Project Director

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 1 at noon EDT/ 9 am PDT

• addressing persistent VIVO URIs and related issues

• today’s call was focused on datasets and dataset ontologies, including options to engage with a W3C working group active in that area

• The Health Care Life Sciences working group new draft standard for dataset description

• We’re trying to think how VIVO can contribute

• Submitting use cases on how we represent datasets in VIVO

• Patrick West: DCAT ontology is what we’re using at RPI for the Deep Carbon project. Also have our own DCO ontology that we’d be happy to share. Integrating with CKAN for data flow and management.

• Making people aware that VIVOs will have extensive contextual data around datasets

• Also discussion of how VIVO relates to ORCID iDs and the distinctions between an ORCID iD, a VIVO URI, and the set of statements about a person in a VIVO

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is April 29 at 1 pm EDT

• Find links to YouTube videos of all previous calls there

• On April 15 call: Chris talked about FundRef and funding org data and stable URIs -- match with citizen(something).org and then visualize this

• Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO

• Apps and Tools workshop at the conference. Looking for participants to do demos -- looking for the best ways to create, use, visualize VIVO data and would love to have additional authors and help

• VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)

• Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M will be there

• the organizers (including Violeta) are looking for another representative from the VIVO community

Upcoming Activities 

• First annual survey of VIVO sites

• see Paul's email to the lists: What does your site care about? Participate in the 2014 VIVO Annual Survey

• The survey form is live: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom 

• A presentation proposal has been submitted to the conference and in order to have time to compile and analyze the data, responses are requested by May 29 

• Next themed weekly call topic – May 8th: VIVO End User Documentation – Help files or documentation for VIVO editors

  • for supporting end users who will be editing in VIVO, whether individually or as proxy editors for a whole department (requested by University of Florida) -- can we make templated documentation where individual sites can put in tips or extra information? Rumor has it there’s a good document underway -- can this be shared on GitHub using GitHub pages? (Alex: GitHub being used by non-coders for local political campaigns and other collaborative writing projects)

  • Format of themed calls could be a mix of presentations and working

  • Note that we are seeking volunteer facilitators for each themed call -- let Alex, Paul, or Jon know directly or via the listserv(s)

Site Updates

• Site updates during next week's call

Theme: Performance Part 1

• Part 1 of a discussion around VIVO Implemenentation Performance concerns: concepts, common performance concerns, VIVO components related to performance, benchmarking (will merge Paul and Alex's Google doc into shared call doc)

• Attendees: (list here)

Notable list traffic 

• Project displaying issue on person's page

• ingest problem: things disappear after, recompute
• sometimes when you log in you get a bunch of status warnings

See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads

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