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Calls are held every other Wednesday at 11 AM Eastern Time.

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  • Brown (Steve) – has met with some of the library staff with regards to representing music activities from faculty CVs – appears to be no central vocabulary available through MARC or other standards, where the focus is on documents or recordings rather than musical activities themselves. Some key differences such as the differences between an original score and an arrangement appear not to be captured, but the libraries feel an effort to capture information on collaborations, venues, and performances is worthwhile and important to the faculty involved. Some information may be included in a description field but without explicit relationship to another work. The discouraging aspect is that this is a very complicated set of data.
  • Duke (Damaris) –  working via weekly meetings with the communications director in Arts and Sciences to understand types of publications and other aspects of how faculty members want their works represented. Are looking at developing a form for capturing more data, but are also working with the Elements group to expand the number of publication types they are working with.  This involves differentiating between artistic works and publications – for example, a composition may be considered an artistic work vs. a publication.  They are looking at a hierarchy of artistic types including 2D works, 3D works, and exhibits, with fields for location and date.  A lot of faculty want to put in previous employment or training that may be more representative of their education than an official degree; service work is also a candidate.  Deadline is early September for having information entered and ready for rollout.
  • Florida 
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Memorial University (John) – still in the early planning processes with a developer starting in a couple of weeks.  Are building from an earlier system called Yaffle, which includes the work of the knowledge mobilization working group – to identify gaps such as facilitated working groups and events, and representing non-academic personnel types.
  • NARCIS 
  • North Texas
  • Scripps
  • UCLA
  • Weill Cornell (Paul) – just starting to test more automated queries for publications and are continuing to work on refining person types; working on resolving duplicate journal artifacts. Also in the early stages of developing a revised page template for VIVO pages with no tabs but less vertical scrolling by showing more data properties in line rather than as block elements. Also looking at merging types of publications together but giving people more options for sorting, such as publication date, type, journal ranking, as well as hiding certain publication types like errata. Has been inspired by the more compact layouts on scholars@duke
  • Cornell Ithaca (Brian) – working on property simplification and starting to look at data migration. In two weeks would like to be ready to offer a walkthrough showing what current data will look like in v1.6 – things that look complex in Vue diagrams may not affect the application that dramatically.

Discussion Topics

Review and prioritization of changes for VIVO 1.6

see VIVO Ontology v1.6 Issues

and the current list of outstanding issues for version 1.6 in Jira

 

Collaborative ontology development tools

(Jing) Goals are to have a common workspace for the official VIVO ontology and for extensions to it that are under development.  The VIVO team at Hopkins will be a decentralized effort and they will need collaborative tools even for their own purposes.

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  • Topic: 2013 Bi-weekly VIVO Ontology Call
  • Date: Every 2 weeks on Wednesday, from Wednesday, January 23, 2013 with no end date
  • Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
  • Meeting Number: 648 855 983
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