February 12, 2016, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Steering Group Members

Paul Albert , Melissa Haendel, Kristi Holmes,  Dean B. Krafft, Robert H. McDonald, Eric Meeks,  Andi Ogier, Bart Ragon, Julia Trimmer, 

= note taker

Ex officio

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

Regrets

Alex Viggio

Location

Webex Meeting Link

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates
   1. Developer meeting.  20 attendees.  Discussion of Open VIVO, JIRA and Huda Khan's work on EarthCollab.  The profile export capability may be useful in VIVO.
   2. Open VIVO progress.  See OpenVIVO Task Force
2. Leadership group elections
   1. The Bronze members will have one member on the Leadership group.
   2. Mike has asked for nominations for institutions
   3. If we get more than one nomination, we'll have an election
   4. Platinum members are 1 for 1 on the Leadership group
   5. We don't have enough gold and silver members at that level to have an election.  All Gold and Silver will be on the LG.
3. Summit meeting
   1. It will be March 17-18, Washington DC.
   2. Mike: this is a fabulous members-only meeting. Includes high-level people representing DuraSpace projects. A good chance to talk with board members. VIVO has a leadership meeting at the Summit. Only one of two opportunities to convene the Leadership group. Goal: maximize conversation regarding strategy and the future.
   3. Most of the Leadership Group does not follow OpenVIVO so this is an opportunity to bring them up to speed.
   4. Debra: We have breakout sessions. We need breakout topics. There will be an opportunity to meet and speak with Robert Miller of Lyrasis. 
   5. Possible speaker at the meeting: Phil Bourne at the NIH
4. Mike: I spoke to Sandy Payette at Cornell. Sandy was one of the originators of Fedora and the founder of Duraspace. Has taken on Jon Corson-Rikert's responsibilities at Cornell. Sandy and I would like to have a joint Fedora-VIVO discussion about possible collaboration between the projects.
5. A bit of a snafu on the Developer call. 
   1. The Developers were trading WebEX URLs with each other because they were trying to use the community URL.
   2. Should we have one URL or four?
   3. Group: we like having four
   4. What about using an OpenURL resolver? e.g., http:/bit.ly/VIVOdevelopment
6. US Semantic Symposium
   
   1. Heard about this via the EarthCollab project. Looking at the organizing committee participants. Range of communities relevant to the VIVO initiative. Not sure though how much academic vs. practical stuff will be there. Cornell will send a representative. The group is still figuring out what dates would work.
   2. They have also discussed creating a research network, so I suspect it would be academic. They may have conversations about funding.
   3. The fact that we're running a semantic network might not count for much to academics.
   4. Cornell rep might be able to speak to either interest.
7. OpenVIVO
   1. See the OpenVIVO Task Force page.
   2. There has been significant interest in this initiative. Sent out the task list last night.
   3. A lot of the work can be done in parallel. We do know how to do a lot of these things.
      
   4. We would need to stop adding things during the first two weeks of April.
   5. Depending on how things go, we should think about getting this in the scholarly literature. This would offer strong opportunities for dissemination not just for the larger community but to local participating institutions. Mike: agreed.
   6. Will there be time to discuss building out the ontology during these meetings? 

8. Kristi: here's an article of possible interest - not necessarily about VIVO data, but a nice perspective: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bul2.2016.1720420207/full 

Action Items

1. All: submit topics for breakout sessions at Duraspace meeting to Debra in the next couple weeks.