February 5, 2016, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Steering Group Members

Paul Albert , Melissa Haendel, Kristi Holmes,  Dean B. Krafft, Eric Meeks,  Andi Ogier, Bart Ragon, Julia Trimmer, Alex Viggio

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Interest Group Chairs

Ted Lawless

Ex officio

Graham Triggs, Mike Conlon, Jonathan Markow, debra hanken kurtz

Regrets

Chris Barnes, Robert H. McDonald

Location

Webex Meeting Link

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates
   1. Open VIVO is making progress.  Hosting identified.  Domain name being acquired.  Open VIVO org established at GitHub.  Ontology engaged.  Jim Blake will meet with Graham and Mike regarding authentication.  Ted Lawless has agreed to help.  Dave Eichmann will harvest data and incorporate in search, and work with Mike on organization RDF from GRID. Muhammed Javed (Cornell) will work with Mike on Journal RDF from CrossRef.  Need graphics/UI and Java development help.  Considering hackathon at Force11 to develop D3 visualizations for VIVO-ISF data.  Figshare adding ORCiD support to their API to identify contributors to works.  Attribution poster accepted.  Open VIVO poster and demo accepted.  Mike will work on harvest of Figshare collection of Force11 contributors.
   2. Excellent Outreach and engagement call Thursday.  Eric Meeks and Brian Turner of UCSF presented their work on faculty engagement in profiles.  20 attendees.
   3. George Washington University VIVO in production!  See https://expert.gwu.edu
2. Ted volunteered to help build a Web of Knowledge connector for VIVO sites
   1. Ted would use whatever license Duraspace recommends
   2. Graham: this would be something similar to our relationship with Harvester
   3. Mike: would ORCID2VIVO also be in the same place? Key question would be the location.
   4. Melissa: what's the involvement on the ontology / data modeling. Ideally, this would be something that we would want to use the ontology.... I suggest we make the mapping extremely flexible so it can be altered so it's not tied to software versions.
   5. Jonathan: can the Thomson Reuters contrib live in the VIVO Git Hub? Mike: wherever the tool lives. Up to now, one of the issues is that our tools are rather scattered around. But Ted is requesting to move it to VIVO Git Hub.
   6. Melissa: I agree it should go under the VIVO umbrella. It might be worth renaming it.
   7. Mike: it's not necessary for the VIVO project to vouch for it, or for it to work with the latest version, but the readme should be clear.
3. Julia: conference update
   1. Still looking for speakers. Got two acceptances from invited speakers.
   2. We've also gotten sponsorship commitments from Symplectic and Thomson Reuters.
   3. EasyChair site is set up
   4. We could require that VIVO Conference presenters (or attendees) have an ORCiD identifier.
   5. Complaints about ORCID especially from other countries, particularly cost structures. Perhaps we should consider allowing other identifiers.
   6. Alternate person identifiers include: OCLC ID, Researcher ID, FOAF-page...
   7. ORCID no longer allows batch requests from institutions.
   8. After the discussion, the group recommended using ORCiD for conference submissions.
4. OpenVIVO
   1. There has been a lot of progress on this initiative. A lot of people have come forward and asked how they can help.
   2. We're still looking for a person with UI/graphic design talent.
   3. We might bring in Jim Blake on this project.
   4. A very good call with Dave Eichmann. He's very interested in including data in the search. Javed from Cornell has some work he can share from their integration with CrossRef.
   5. Melissa: I've been talking with the OpenRIF, with Violeta in particular. Kristi is helping nail down some of the attribution roles.  Alex Rademaker also offered to host this on a Microsoft platform. At Force16, we will have a poster and demo table. I also will be able to demo it on the main stage.
   6. The Google Doc for OpenVIVO is now publicly available here https://goo.gl/UImBsc
5. Other business
   1. Implementation Fest, where would this be?
   2. A postdoc on the Karma project, and he was looking for real world examples of VIVO data, before and after, so you may see a request for this information.
      
      

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