Sprint 1 VIVO completed its first community sprint this past week. Ten developers from eight institutions in three countries addressed a wide variety of issues focused on producing the next release of VIVO, VIVO 1.10. Some of the issues addressed during the sprint included:
- Inclusion of the Cornell Data Distribution API. This new API allows sites to create their own APIs, providing specific data at web addresses of their choosing. With data distribution, sites can create SPARQL queries that are provide in response to parameterized web queries of the sites' design. Data can be returned in a variety of formats, including JSON, ready for use in other software and web sites. This major new feature greatly simplifies the
- vivo.owl. For the first time, the VIVO ontology is available in a single file, with release coordinated with the release of the software. ontologies.owl contains information about the ontologies used by VIVO.
- An upgrade to Jena 3.6, supporting NAMED and FROM statements in SPARQL queries. Data managers can load data into named graphs, and then restrict queries to specific named graphs to simplify data management.
Development Interest Group
Books for VIVO The VIVO Book
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Membership VIVO is supported by its members. Leadership and Steering is composed of members, along with 3 participants nominated by the Leadership Group and elected from the community. We encourager all sites using VIVO to become members of Duraspace supporting VIVO. Becoming a member has multiple benefits in addition to participating in in VIVO project governance. To consider membership, please contact Mike Conlon. If you are ready to become a member, please visit http://bit.ly/dura-join The project needs your support to continue to improve everything VIVO does. We'd love to answer any questions you may have about membership.
Your note here Do you have an update for the VIVO community that you would like to see included in VIVO Updates? It's simple – just send Mike Conlon your update by Saturday of any week, and the update will appear in VIVO Updates the next day on Sunday. Notes on action planning, the conference, software development, training, documentation, community engagement, conferences to attend, recent presentations are all very welcome! The VIVO community is very active across the world. Please share you what you are doing with VIVO. We'd love to hear from you!
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
