Tech Lead Search. Thanks to all who participated in the tech lead search open calls and to those who completed on-line candidate feedback. We have three strong candidates and received significant and extremely useful feedback from the on-line process. We expect an offer to be made very soon.
CASRAI/ORCID event in Barcelona. I had an opportunity to attend the CASRAI/ORCID event in Barcelona, as did Brian Lowe. Presentations over the two day conference focused on research impact – how to assess the value to society of research expenditures by funding agencies. The conference was focused on European processes and there are perspectives from the EU as well as each country's national perspectives. VIVO can play an important role in assembling data regarding research for the purpose of assessing impact.
Task force work continues. The four current task forces continue their work. The asset task force asked for comments on its inventory of VIVO assets. Thanks to those who provided feedback. Contributed software continues their efforts to recommend processes for community created software to become distributed with the VIVO core. The User Stories Task Force produced their first story – VIVO at Brown – you can find it on the VIVO blog at http://vivoweb.org/blog. Great work! I met with the Implementation Documentation task force. They are creating an outline of materials site's need to put up a VIVO, fill it with data, maintain it, and support various uses. Please contact the task force chairs or members with your thoughts and contributions on any of these efforts. You can find the task forces in the left hand menu on the home page of the VIVO wiki. http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO
Leadership Group meeting June 2. In a couple of weeks, the VIVO Leadership Group will have their quarterly meeting. They will review progress since the March meeting at the Duraspace Summit, review the budget and consider a proposal to increase the size of Steering Group. If your institution is not yet participating in the Leadership Group, you may wish to consider your level of membership and how you might participate. The Leadership Group meets again at the conference.
Membership drive. VIVO is always seeking new members – organizations that can financially support VIVO or commit significant developer time to the improve VIVO. You can find information regarding membership in VIVO on the Duraspace web site at http://www.duraspace.org/about_membership
Got a question or comment? If at any time you have any comment or question about the project, please feel free to send me an email. I’d love to hear from you.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
