Release candidate for 1.8.1. VIVO 1.8.1-rc1 is available for testing. See https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/releases. The release notes are available here: VIVO v1.8.1 Release Notes. As you will see in the release notes, this is a maintenance release, primarily addressing performance issues and bug fixes. Please consider downloading and testing this release using your VIVO data. If you test this release, please report your findings to Graham Triggs. Thanks!
Performance benchmarking. Interested in performance benchmarking? Please plan to join the Weekly Implementation and Development Calls this Thursday at 1 PM eastern US time for a discussion of possible benchmarking of future releases of VIVO. Using standard data sets, standard hardware configurations and standard work mixes, we hope to produce benchmark timings of VIVO performance. This should help us quantify improvements in VIVO software performance over time, measure the impact of alternate triple stores on performance, and provide assistance to sites looking to improve the performance of their local implementations. What should be included? How might benchmarks help your site? Join the discussion Thursday.
Linked Data Patterns http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/
Ontology issues in JIRA. As recommended by the Asset Inventory Task Force and the ontologists, ontology issues formerly found in the VIVOONT JIRA at Duraspace have been moved to the VIVO JIRA. The VIVO JIRA now has all issues, with ontology issues tagged as such. See https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/VIVO/ for the VIVO JIRA.
Wiki updates Wiki improvements. How to pages (Benjamin Gross), Development section remodeled (Conlon and Gross), VIVO Data Management in Technical remodeled (Conlon), new page on Identifier Management (Conlon and Littman), 1.8.1 Release notes (Triggs), 1.9 Release Planning (Conlon)
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
