VIVO User Group Meeting. We had a great VIVO User Group meeting in Chicago at the Galter Health Science Library. You can find materials from the meeting on line here. The two day meeting sessions included:
Introductions. Logistics. Session Topics. Ground rules. Work Products for the user group
Showcasing scholarly work. Design. User experience. Optimizing -- landing, person, org, and work pages. Performance
- Expert finding. Research Discovery. Search. Cross-site linking and search.
Accessing works – linking to works on the web, in repos, use of public APIs. Ingesting data – domains of ingest, tools, data packages.
Community change management for ontology changes. Notices, training, documentation, tools, support for changes.
- How to improve VIVO. Software architecture. Tools. Process. Releases. 1.9. 1.10. VIVO Labs. VIVO Futures
Read back, summary, action items. Next meeting. Meeting adjourns
The group discussed action items that will follow from the meeting. Each of these will involve community input on the VIVO calls and email lists, and possible task forces:
Develop an Ontology development process - how is the ontology developed?
Release 1.9 (before conference) – including new technical documentation
Organize VIVO Labs – a method for experimenting with new VIVO capabilities. See the Contributed Software Task Force Report
Develop a 1.10 roadmap – using the VIVO Roadmap Process, continue the user group discussions to develop a roadmap for version 1.10
Approach to Expert finding – consider how best to move forward with significant new capability in expert finding
Approach to Central Services – consider how best to establish significant, sustainable, central services for cross-site search and disambiguation
- Approach to VIVO Futures – consider how best to further discussion regarding technical debt, and architectural issues for future VIVO software.
Special thanks to Kristi Holmes for hosting the meeting and to the staff at Northwestern for their hospitality and assistance. Chicago is a lovely city, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern is close to the lake and close to Michigan Avenue with many top attractions, amazing food, and shopping.
The group considered when to meet again. VIVO will likely have an in-person meeting sometime in late fall to discuss the strategic plan – more about that in the coming weeks. A second user group meeting might occur in early 2017 (February?) to assess progress, and discuss direction. Please share thoughts on vivo-community@googlegroup.com Plans for future meetings will be summarized here in VIVO Updates, along with any specific announcements of meetings.
We will have more regarding the user group meeting in a trip report, and user group meeting report to come. Stay tuned.
Development Call. The Development Interest Group will have its call this Thursday at 1 PM US Eastern time. Developers interested in VIVO 1.9 should plan to attend.
OpenVIVO. A VIVO anyone can join. Have you tried OpenVIVO? 162 people in 12 countries have signed on to OpenVIVO, with 975 works entered from ORCiD, PubMed and Figshare. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
