Meeting Notes

Implementation Updates

• Cornell
  • VIVO 1.3 upgrade delayed a bit by production server storage issues
• Weill Cornell
  • working with Jon on use cases
• Scripps
  • upgraded to VIVO 1.3
  • Harvester PubMed ingest
• UFL
  • importing courses data (7 years worth in Excel format), likely to extend course ontology
• UT North Texas
  • Katy's visit – excitement about visualizations
  • ok to extract faculty profiles into VIVO (PHP/MySQL)
• John Hopkins
  • also an AI user – considering it as source vs SAP
• Colorado
  • meetings with research
  • expanding faculty reporting to Colorado Springs campus

Implementation Questions

• How does one delete publications from VIVO?
  • ingest function to identify publications to remove, i.e. support RDF batch removal (future VIVO enhancement)
• SPARQL query assistance (from vivo-imp-issues)
  • adding pages to wiki for common SPARQL queries under Implementation area of wiki, but connect these to the Ontology section
  • ability to save SPARQL queries in the VIVO Site Admin UI
  • sharing SPARQL queries on the wiki, where page history could help
  • "Learning SPARQL" from O'Reilly (may be available on their online Safari service)
• Data ingest problem (from vivo-imp-issues)
  • missing authorship intermediary
• Items for an Implementation FAQ:
  • Can I infer research areas from the publications of an individual?
    • research areas (keywords) not pulled down by Harvester, but is being addressed by Stony-Brook project that pulls down keywords (MeSH/UMLS?)
• Questions about primary versus additional web page linking, and related admin user interface elements
  • Jon and Stella clarified that this has been upgrade in v1.3, getting away from early Vitro elements still present in v1.2, should be handled by upgrade function.