Announcements

• VIVO 1.6.1 Release Notes

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, April 17 at noon EST/ 9 am PST – note proposed new time

• addressing persistent VIVO URIs and related issues

• next call will be focused on datasets and dataset ontologies, including options to engage with a W3C working group active in that area

• The next Apps & Tools call is April 15 at 1PM EST

• Find links to YouTube videos of all previous calls there

• Alex Rademacher (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO  - Alex will present later in the month or in May.  

• Apps and Tools workshop at the conference. Looking for participants to do demos -- looking for the best ways to create, use, visualize VIVO data and would love to have additional authors and help

• VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)

• 2014 VIVO Conference Call for Paper/Poster/Panel Proposals deadline extended to this Friday, April 11

Upcoming Activities 

• Roll out of first annual survey of VIVO sites

• Scheduling next themed weekly call topic – April 24th: Topic TBA – seeking volunteer facilitators for themed calls

Site Updates

• Moving to bi-weekly update schedule – updates next week

• Attendees: Cornell, Weill-Cornell, Smithsonian, UF (Florida), Virginia Tech, RPI, Duke, Stony Brook, Brown, Symplectic

Theme: Launch of First Annual VIVO Survey

• Designed to be one survey per site, that can be passed from one team member to another.

• please use the mailing list for any questions that come up

• the survey is fairly extensive, but can be saved so it can be filled in via multiple sessions and/or by multiple responders (e.g., a policy person, an ontology person, and a developer)

• be sure when you save the survey to resume later you record the URL you are given -- if you don’t use that you will have to start over

• Paul Albert and others will facilitate online survey process for call attendees

• And Paul will send out the link below and highlight the point that if you save midway you need to copy and save the link to be able to resume

• How do you want to receive feedback?

• e.g., what’s the definition of a profile -- all foaf:Person entries or the count of people within the institution -- see the FAQ on the project wiki page listed below

• Timeline -- encourages submissions by June 30, 2014 to be included in Paul’s proposed conference presentation

• Note that Profiles institutions are also being surveyed (with a shorter survey)

• See project wiki page for more information and an FAQ

• The VIVO survey link: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom 

• Early feedback:

• yes, it’s long but I can leave blank questions that aren’t applicable

• would provide very useful information in making the case for VIVO

• looks like good information -- interesting to see some of the results

• would it make sense to have different responses from the same institution? For this time, one per institution is what we’re looking for

• Thanks to Paul for creating the survey!

Notable list traffic

• solrconfig etag --  

• A change in the version of Solr used between VIVO 1.5 and 1.6

• We expect to move to Solr 4.x with 1.7

• performance work is taking precedence over backporting caching from 1.6 to 1.5 

• TemplateException creating processing environment

• URLs

• specifying Accept header to sparql query against VIVO generates error 

• RPI could work around this but is still having a problem with the DESCRIBE query -- can anyone reproduce?

• Jim -- yes, and did a one-line fix in the source code 

• Partial search reindexing in VIVO 1.6 

• Jim improved the documentation 

• Solr 500 Error -- permissions issue (have to run Tomcat as a user with privileges to modify the directories, typically by running the build script as the Tomcat user)

• ingesting RDF already modeled with VIVO Ontology
   

Call-in Information