July 20, 2018, 11 AM US Eastern Time

Attendees

LG and SG members:

Paul Albert, Ann Beynon,  Tom Cramer, Mike Conlon,  Anna Guillaumet, Doug Hahn, Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik, Muhammed Javed, DJ Lee,  Jean Rainwater, Hannah Sommers, Julia Trimmer, Terrie Wheeler

Duraspace:

Erin Tripp, Andrew Woods

Regrets:

Robert Cartolano, Federico Ferrario, Mark Newton, Ginny Pannabecker, Alex Viggio, Joe Zucca

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Agenda

1. Review agenda: Mike, 5 minutes
2. Welcome new and returning Leadership Group members: Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik, Hannah Sommers and Alex Viggio: Mike, 5 minutes
3. Developing a Roadmap. Mike, round-table discussion. 25 minutes.
   
   1. Revised Technical Initiatives Doc
   2. Initiatives worksheet
4. Proposal for choosing five Steering Group members: Mike, 5 minutes

   See procedure outlined here.

5. Grant opportunities: Terrie Wheeler, 15 minutes.  See VIVO Grant Funding Opportunities
6. Future agenda items: All, 5 minutes

Notes

• Mike chaired the meeting at Julia's request
• Welcome to new and returning Leadership Group members.
  • Christian - newly elected community rep, hosting a German national VIVO workshop on Sept. 17 and 18
  • Violeta - newly elected community rep
  • Alex - reelected community rep
  • Hannah - reelected bronze rep
• Technical initiatives doc
  • Mike: We've removed a couple that have already been done. The first 3 are underway via the Task Force process.
  • Javed: ontology improvement task force - we worked to bring together ontologies into a single file. We can finally point at it.
  • Mike: We've added another 35 to do items, one of which is accessible themes. I get one inquiry per month asking about VIVO's accessibility.
  • Spreadsheet: column for impact and effort, which would be a score from 1-10. Another column is component.
  • Mike: Julia suggested a first scoring should be done by a small group, but I'm happy that anyone could do that.
  • Paul: I care about Product Evolution efforts including performant index and refined interface.
  • Javed: I'm noticing some initiatives that are short-term and others that are more long-term.
  • Jean: the process sounds fine.
  • Hannah: I think we should note dependencies.
  • DJ: process looks good.
  • Doug: nothing to add
  • Christian: I can add some info and will provide info.
  • Ann: it's important to get wider input
  • Anna: Happy to see the process
  • Mike/Terrie: if we're going to address grant funding, we would need to look to how these features could be incorporated into core.
  • Mike to send out a request for scoring. There will then be a scoring and reconciliation process among the scorers
• Procedure for Steering Group members
  • Mike: thanks for everyone voting. We had votes from all but one people eligible to vote. Nice job, all.
  • The nominations for Steering Group comes from the Leadership group. We will be opening up nominations this afternoon. Nominations will be open for 7 days. 
• Grant funding
  
  • Violeta: I need access to the folder but that probably needs to be fixed at the top level.
  • Mike: JenaConnectifier and ReCiter could be included in VIVO Combine. 
  • Mike: we're of course interested in European grant opportunities.
  • Christian: we had some problems finding programs that are applicable to both US and European countries. You don't exactly qualify as a developing country.
  • Mike: this will always be a problem. It's difficult to have international participation in grants unless it's specifically called for.... Sometimes funders including foundations are more amenable to negotiation.
  • Erin: That has been my experience working with the Mellon Foundation.
  • Violeta: sometimes you can ask personal contacts, "How does this idea sound?"
  • Erin: I have contacts at IMLS. That might be appropriate.
  • Tom: Mellon is very much into open science. Sloan is more into community and the arts, and they may be more of a stretch. Same with IMLS.
  • Violeta: I have some contacts at Sloan.
  • Mike: we should remember that this is potential funding for people at your institution. Securing funding can help change the conversation at the institution.
  • Tom: How does this Grants sheet overlap with the technical initiatives and product evolution group, if at all? (It seems to me that Product Evolution is a grantable activity)
  • Tom: is everyone who can/should comment on this doc within Leaders? I wonder about if and when it might be surfaced to others in the VIVO community not on this call

    With Mellon and Sloan, yes.... Mike: I'm fine with opening it for editing. Christian: the Danish people are very successful with funding. I would consider posting it to everyone. Terrie: I think it would be helpful if we targeted specific people in the organization.

  • Mike: if you want to see something in the VIVO Updates, send me something by Saturday.
• Mike: any future items you would like to see?
  • Violeta: VIVO marketing
  • Erin: ResearchGraph
  • Tom: when will there be a proposal for the next conference? 
  • Mike: we're expecting proposals on August 6. 
  • Tom: we were also thinking about a research intelligence conference in North America. 
  • Mike: yes, I think that might be worth exploring. 
  • Tom: there's an opportunity to combine with the Pure user group.