VIVO Camp Considering VIVO? Planning a VIVO implementation? Need to learn more about VIVO? Maybe you're the new person on an existing project and need to catch up. Register for Camp here. An itinerary is available. Join colleagues leaning about VIVO in Albuquerque, April 6-8. Questions about camp? Drop us a note at info@vivoweb.org
Collaborative editing in the wiki. You know how Google Docs supports multiple people editing a document at the same time? Every sees who editing. The VIVO Wiki, hosted by Duraspace, was recently upgraded to Atlassian Confluence version 6.0. You can read about new features here. One new feature is collaborative editing. Yay! Now task forces, governance groups, interest groups, technical writers and others working in the VIVO wiki and the VIVO documentation wiki can invite their friends and write and edit together. Do you have an account for editing? Just ask and you shall receive.
Improving the VIVO ontologies. As you may know, VIVO uses ontologies to describe the relations between things, and the data that can be recorded about these things. Vitro, the software underlying VIVO, is a "domain free" ontology-driven application. That means Vitro can be given any ontology, and it can create instances and record data about the instance, presenting web pages for each entity and supporting search over the entities and their data. In addition, Vitro provides an ontology editor to add new classes, object properties and data properties to the ontologies it is currently using. Vitro has been used to store data regarding library catalogues, clinical trials, space craft, and other collections of things defined by ontologies. You will be hearing more about Vitro over the course of the year.
VIVO inherits all this capability from Vitro, and uses a collection of ontologies to represent scholarship and research. VIVO provides visualizations and other interface elements to make use of information about scholarship compelling and useful. Have ideas about how VIVO could be more compelling and more useful? We are always looking for exciting ideas.
All that VIVO records is based on the ontologies it uses.
Apps and Tools call this Thursday Considering, planning, working on a VIVO implementation? The Implementation Interest Group call will be held this Thursday, February 16, at 1 PM EST. Join Paul Albert with questions and comments regarding your implementation. No previous experience with VIVO or with VIVO calls is needed. We are always looking to help each other. Here's the WebEx Link.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
Duraspace
