Updates
Cornell
- monitoring VIVO 1.3 upgraded production site, finding some data upgrade quirks
- working on VIVO 1.4 dev release, hoped to have a code freeze last Friday for a Nov release – code freeze moved to mid-next week, may push release to early Dec
Weill-Cornell
- key affiliate backed off of VIVO install – wondering about value proposition, more mature VIVO release – primary challenge is lack of authoritative systems to feed VIVO (would make VIVO the auth sys)
- wondered if there are other institutions (16 depts, 2 campuses, 300 faculty) that are using VIVO as an authoritative source? Scripps sort of is...
Scripps
- asked about custom forms in v1.5 (e.g. Publications)
- cleaning up data from v1.2-to-v1.3 upgrade
- grad office proposed adding grad student and alumni profiles
UNT
- learning, thinking about how to get data in
UF
- photos ingest working well
- dev servers migrated to EC2 (v1.3), will then migrate data over, and then cut them over as production servers
- delete 30 odd classes to clean up local ontology
- XSLT for course ingest
- PHP script that pull VIVO out to WordPress
Duke
- VIVO implementation branded "Scholars at Duke"
- how to get data from automated and public sources, institutional (HR), two legacy activity systems
- plugging along with pilot orgs to help on a different VIVO skin (reduce white space)
- integrating with Symplectic Elements (for managing publications data)
John Hopkins
- some colleges use Activity Insight
- working with HR to get data
- mapping org data for departments
Boulder
- grad student testing v1.3 upgrade
Special Topics
- Writing VIVO into grants – tips, boilerplate?
- CTSA news
- 94% of 60 CTSA PIs voted for VIVO as the reference standard (shocking margin!)
- Elaine Collier NIH contact
- First standard put forth by CTSA Informatics working group
- CERAS (EuroCris) intent to collaborate – linked data task force
- StarMetrics
- John Hopkins implementor had a question about linking to department web sites directly, instead of an org individual page which then links to the department site
- Katy's group at Indiana built a VIVO for a smaller group separate from Indiana VIVO
Notable Implementation List Traffic
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