2014-05-08 Implementation and Development Call

Announcements

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 15 at noon EDT

• Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is May 13th at 1pm EDT

• April 29th call: Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO -- video will be on YouTube soon

• did his whole presentation with Emacs

• Had a call with David Wood yesterday about Callimachus

• he spoke at the VIVO conference last year

• 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

• The survey: 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 22nd: Performance Part 2 or VIVO 1.7?

Site Updates

• Site updates during next week's call

Theme: End User Documentation

• VIVO End User Documentation – 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)

• Are there examples from other projects that do documentation better?

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

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

Notable list traffic 

• TBD

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

Call-in Information