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News Release: Layne Johnson is the New VIVO Project Director
Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 1 at noon EDT/ 9 am PDT
addressing persistent VIVO URIs and related issues
today’s call was focused on datasets and dataset ontologies, including options to engage with a W3C working group active in that area
The Health Care Life Sciences working group new draft standard for dataset description
We’re trying to think how VIVO can contribute
Submitting use cases on how we represent datasets in VIVO
Patrick West: DCAT ontology is what we’re using at RPI for the Deep Carbon project. Also have our own DCO ontology that we’d be happy to share. Integrating with CKAN for data flow and management.
Making people aware that VIVOs will have extensive contextual data around datasets
Also discussion of how VIVO relates to ORCID iDs and the distinctions between an ORCID iD, a VIVO URI, and the set of statements about a person in a VIVO
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is April 29 at 1 pm EDT
Find links to YouTube videos of all previous calls there
On April 15 call: Chris talked about FundRef and funding org data and stable URIs -- match with citizen(something).org and then visualize this
Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO
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)
Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M will be there
the organizers (including Violeta) are looking for another representative from the VIVO community
First annual survey of VIVO sites
see Paul's email to the lists: What does your site care about? Participate in the 2014 VIVO Annual Survey
The survey form is live: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom
A presentation proposal has been submitted to the conference and in order to have time to compile and analyze the data, responses are requested by May 29
Next themed weekly call topic – May 8th: VIVO End User Documentation – Help files or documentation for VIVO editors
for supporting end users who will be editing in VIVO, whether individually or as proxy editors for a whole department (requested by University of Florida) -- can we make templated documentation where individual sites can put in tips or extra information? Rumor has it there’s a good document underway -- can this be shared on GitHub using GitHub pages? (Alex: GitHub being used by non-coders for local political campaigns and other collaborative writing projects)
Format of themed calls could be a mix of presentations and working
Site updates during next week's call
Part 1 of a discussion around VIVO Implemenentation Performance concerns: concepts, common performance concerns, VIVO components related to performance, benchmarking (will merge Paul and Alex's Google doc into shared call doc)
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See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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