May 22, 2015, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Steering Group Members

Dean B. Krafft, Robert H. McDonald , Mike Conlon, Jon Corson-Rikert , Kristi Holmes, debra hanken kurtz , Jonathan Markow

Regrets

Melissa Haendel, Paul Albert

= note taker

Dial-In Number:  (209) 647-1600, Participant code: 117433#

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates
   1. CASRAI/ORCID Barcelona. See 2015-05-21 Trip Report -- CASRAI/ORCID
      1. some VIVO mentions at Barcelona meeting - See Mike's trip report linked above.
      2. David Baker is amenable to help instantiate some things between VIVO and CASRAI.
   2. MC, Debra K, JM, and RM will attend Open Repositories June 8-10, Indianapolis.  KH has a VIVO-related poster. RM has poster on SEAD people, data things that is VIVO related.  Organized by Duraspace.
   3. Researcher Profile event in Australia to be organized by Malcolm Wolski at Griffith now planned for "early 2016"
   4. Lambert Heller and Ina Blümel organzing a one day VIVO event at TIB Hannover September 9
   5. OHSU grant application to NCATS for VIVO-ISF ontology work in submission
   6. Conference reviews progressing.  Preliminary schedule this week.
2. Leadership Group Agenda
   1. Mike did some reordering of the Agenda - see link above.
   2. Want to send to members shortly - Dean will send out on Tues May 26.
   3. Did we conclude as a group to recommend Option 2 for Steering Group Membership - Yes that is the steering recommendation.
3. Tech Lead Seach
   1. Had search committee meeting this am May 22
   2. Kristi Searle was very helpful in moderating the event for more feedback with all candidates.
   3. Got feedback on candidates - 1 from Leadership - 1 from Steering Group - 2 from Workgroup Leads - all feedback forms were completed by people that had heard all candidates except 1 who had only heard 2 of them.
   4. Need to vet references for all candidates
   5. Any relocation questions with candidates - will need to follow up on this in next round
   6. All candidates strong on agile development

   7. Are we looking for someone who already understands a deep semantic approach and can lead technically - or are we looking for someone who may rely on the community for deep knowledge but shows more evidence of talent for getting development going in the community?

   8. Search committee ready to do anything to follow up on these issues.
   9. Search committee will make rank ordered recommendation to Duraspace.  Duraspace will follow up with additional interviews and offer.
4. Roadmap Process
   1. first document - shows outline toward roadmap creation
   2. second document - draft features - things that people are eager to see in VIVO - went through notes and previous roadmaps etc - found lots of proposed features for VIVO - end-user vs stewardship vs development features (three categories) - don't need to draft suggestions for new features we have plenty to do in that area - many recurring themes - draft features had 25 for each of the three categories
   3. need put constraint around voting for preferences based on estimates of time for each item.
   4. Need to keep roadmap workplan moving ahead
5. Future Topics
   1. Looking at VIVO and Elements and SHARE and other expert systems and what types of data should be used from organizational systems. 
   2. If SHARE Notify can be setup correctly it could be a major source of new data for VIVO
   3. Our next meeting – May 29 – is joint with the work group chairs

Action Items

• Mike Conlon and debra hanken kurtz will follow up regarding share notify
  
• Mike Conlon will solicit agenda items for the joint meeting next Friday
  
• Mike Conlon will finish up items for the leadership group meeting