Updates

Cornell

• upgrade to v1.3 mid-Oct and moved two Virtual Servers (local in central IT farm limited to 8GB RAM, 2 CPU so they split DB and Tomcat to different servers)
• entering faculty reporting season, meeting with colleges
• preparing for v1.4 release on the dev team front (testing the next week)

UF

• moving to Amazon EC2 (dev staging up, production moving next Monday – 8 EC2 servers for dev/staging/production)
• automated two ingests data and photos nightly
• working on course and section auto ingest
  • archive of ~260k course sections, updated each term ~15k course sections
  • extended VIVO core ontology to describe UF's structure
  • UF Course diagram: UF Courses structure
• automate positions and papers
• upgrading VIVO v1.3 on Amazon

Special Topics

Mike Conlon, PI for VIVO NIH grant, will update call attendees on VIVO from a national perspective

• Adoptions
  • American Psychological Association (APA) scientific and professional organization (154k+ members and largest association of psychologists worldwide) their survey identified 50 concurrent VIVO implementations prior to VIVO 2011 conference
  • USDA plans to take VIVO to 50 US land grant universities
  • CTSA 60 biomedical research universities recommending adoption of VIVO ontology and open RDF for data sharing 94% positive
  • FuturICT http://www.futurict.eu/ $200M Euro project most sci agencies in Europe profiles for scientists
  • EuroCRIS starting linked data group (18yo consortium) providing a lighter weight CERIS format
  • Growing ontology collaborations and model alignment (eagle-I, EuroCRIS, NIH's NIF group, NCBO and OBO Foundry)
    • http://www.obofoundry.org/coordination.shtml and http://www.obofoundry.org/ontologies.shtml
  • UK Symplectic Elements promoting VIVO to research universities in UK, interest and test implementation
  • Australia federal govt program helping schools wanting to provide VIVO compatible data, expressed interest in migrating formats
  • Emerging group in India (Johns-Hopkins connection/organizer) to learn more about VIVO
  • Other universities in Switzerland and Chile
• Tools
  • VIVO Searchlight http://vivosearchlight.org
  • VIVO Beta Search http://beta.vivosearch.org
  • US fed govt program FRPS (fed research profiles system) rebranded SciENcv http://www.SciEnCV.com
    • Streamline application preparation and reporting
    • Provide a resource for locating scientific expertise
    • Support analysis of results of research investments
    • hoping to keep this bi-directional with VIVO instances
    • Google Scholar connection, centralized disambiguation service
    • NIH, EPA, NSF and other federal agencies involved
  • Google Scholar's author disambiguation service – which can be downloaded as CSV or a biblio-format and ingested via Harvester and MODS format
  • Katy Borner at IU leading new project involving 33 schools of information science across US to create a VIVO network of information schools
  • Community of Science http://www.cos.com/ – being able to ingest VIVO profiles – they are exploring
• Directions
  • VIVO v1.4 coming out soon
    • proxy editing
    • linking to external vocabs like UMLS via web service to pick subject terms (also Library Subject Headings, environmental thesaurus, others)
    • better support custom forms
    • bug fixes, maintenance
  • Harvester
    • MODS work
    • scripts shared for grants, photos, courses

Notable Implementation List Traffic

• Upgrade question from NIH test implementer (resolution? needs response for demo on Dec 9)
  • can I upgrade to VIVO 1.3 and Harvester 1.3 easily by unpacking it in the right place and updating the config files?
  • if I can’t easily upgrade to VIVO 1.3, can I use harvester 1.3 with VIVO 1.2?

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