Wednesday, January 27 at 11:00 EDT
LG members:
Paul Albert, Ann Beynon, Mike Conlon, Tom Cramer, Anna Guillaumet, Doug Hahn, Christian Hauschke, Anthony Helm, Bruce Herbert , Damaris Murry 
Terrie Wheeler
LYRASIS:
Laurie Gemmill Arp, Robert Miller, Michele Mennielli
Regrets:
Federico Ferrario, Robert Cartolano
= Secretary
Connection Information
Zoom connection information is available in the Outlook invitation.
Agenda
Short Items (15 mins total)
- VIVO Conference Update – Mike/Anna
- VIVO Architecture Diagrams Request – Bruce
Send diagrams and short description (if possible) to beherbert@tamu.edu - Catalyst Fund – Laurie
The Catalyst Fund is piloting a new thematic track and welcoming applications focused specifically in Open Source Software (OSS). The OSS track will look for projects to help the advancement, evolution, expansion, and/or application of OSS to provide innovation solutions for the LYRASIS community (https://www.lyrasis.org/Leadership/Pages/Catalyst-Fund.aspx)
Discussion Items
- VIVO and EuroCris: Anna (10 min)
Anna will discuss her new involvement in the board of euroCRIS and an idea related to a partnership - VIVO-In-A-Box: Bruce (10 min)
Project status update and discussion of simplified, core profiles. - Andrew is moving on: Andrew and Laurie (20 min)
Andrew has accepted a leadership position in the Harvard Library (congratulations!). Laurie and Andrew will discuss a potential plan to keep the project on task and the Lyrasis process to hire a replacement
Meeting Minutes
Announcements
- VIVO Conference Update
Mike: Ralph O-Flinn doing website; June 23-25, 2021, looking for keynote speakers now. Save the date to come shortly.
Christian: (in chat) Please give the call for keynote speakers to the task forces you lead.
2. VIVO Architecture Diagrams Request
Bruce: Weill Cornell has a nice VIVO architectural diagram, as does Michel Héon, who exhibited an impressive diagram at a recent meeting. One of the top three things that people request when inquiring about VIVO is an architectural diagram. I would like all sites who have a VIVO architectural diagram to place them here:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FDQLM-nEBJ-6GjZNhcRVyc0RPMyjkFi1jMxcsVpbDKI/edit#slide=id.p1
3. Catalyst Fund
Laurie: The Catalyst Fund is piloting a new thematic track and welcoming applications focused specifically in Open Source Software (OSS). The OSS track will look for projects to help the advancement, evolution, expansion, and/or application of OSS to provide innovation solutions for the LYRASIS community (https://www.lyrasis.org/Leadership/Pages/Catalyst-Fund.aspx)
Lyrasis members can submit one idea or proposal. Deadline is February 9. Projects previously funded are here: https://www.lyrasis.org/Leadership/Pages/Catalyst-Fund.aspx (scroll to bottom of page)
Laurie: (in chat) Leigh Grinstead <leigh.grinstead@lyrasis.org>is the program manager for Catalyst Fund. She is happy to chat about ideas, give feedback and help with "matchmaking"
Discussion Items
- VIVO and EuroCris
Bruce: Anna has been elected to the board of EuroCris! She has ideas about how EuroCris could partner with VIVO that would promote collaboration between research organizations.
Anna: VIVO shares same goals with EuroCris – both want more partners. Had first board meeting yesterday and were in agreement about a possible Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). EuroCris is also interested in attending the next VIVO conference. Anna shares slide showing potential for VIVO and CRIS partnership: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FDQLM-nEBJ-6GjZNhcRVyc0RPMyjkFi1jMxcsVpbDKI/edit#slide=id.p1
Bruce: How big is EuroCris, and is it thriving?
Anna: Their website indicates they have a lot of members. https://www.eurocris.org/community/members
I think that this MOU would be a big benefit to both organizations.
Ann: (in chat) background on CERIF: https://www.eurocris.org/eurocris_archive/cerifsupport.org/cerif-in-brief/index.html
Anna: (in chat) DSpace CRIS: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACECRIS
2. VIVO-In-A-Box
Project status update and discussion of simplified, core profiles.
Bruce: Most common request is what data would be available in a simplified profile?
Minimal Profile:
Goal 1: Faculty profile enhancing reputation (in research and teaching)
Goal 2: Profile database as institutions’ data (mainly publications and subject areas/keywords)
Based on DJ’s research, these would be the fields of a simple VIVO profile:
- Faculty name
- Affiliation
- Position title
- Research overview
- Research areas/keywords
- Publications
- Profiles with the six parts above, would be the most simple level minimal profiles and meet both goals in some levels
Paul: Recommend including headshot, email, and overview as fields in a simplified VIVO profile. Also recommend trying to find source systems for all minimal profile criteria.
Christian: Many small universities need ability to display intellectual property.
Tom: Increasing discussion around using VIVO or ORCID to power scienceCV. Has there been any pathfinding of what a deep integration of VIVO and ORCID might look like? In terms of data exchange, presentation, permissions? there is increasing talk in ORCID circles about it becoming more of an online profile (not just a unique identifier)
Christian: (in chat) Data Ingest Task Force is currently in Exchange with Sheila Rabun from ORCID, but currently only at a more technical Level. Maybe we should invite ORCID to talk about this to the VIVO conference?
Tom: (in chat) I suspect Sheila would be very happy to promote (market) VIVO as a profiles solution to the whole US ORCID community if it had a compelling demonstration of how it leveraged ORCIDs
Christian: (in chat) Yes, I will put her on the list. One of the core issue for ORCID (from my narrow perspective) right now: There is no neat tool for an Institution to update its members ORCID profiles. VIVO could be something to feed the ORCID API [in order] to unleash the power of transportable researcher's profiles. Regarding metadata quality in ORCID: We try to use only the PID that ORCID is, not so much the data. And then our idea is to use the datacite commons PID graph to get other PIDs. And then we want to harvest metadata directly from the sources.
Anna: Shares screen to show publications, research projects, research groups, theses made by DSpace CRIS. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FDQLM-nEBJ-6GjZNhcRVyc0RPMyjkFi1jMxcsVpbDKI/edit#slide=id.p1
3. Andrew is moving on
Andrew has accepted a leadership position in the Harvard Library (congratulations!).
Andrew: We have some plans in place to continue operations. My title will be descriptive, Manager of Software Engineering. Will oversee developers in central IT that support the Harvard Library System Will also be a point of contact for external collaborations that Harvard University has.
Bruce: Laurie and Andrew will discuss a potential plan to keep the project on task and the Lyrasis process to hire a replacement.
Laurie: Context, whenever someone leaves, it is an opportunity to re-examine the position responsibilities. Short term, looking for someone to meet our immediate goals. Longer term, what is the need to fill this position strategically. Short term could be a contract; long term would like to embrace the Diversity, inclusion and equity goals.
Andrew: Technical coordination important. Need to make a decision around the product itself. Will take a lot of energy and development work.
4. North American VIVO User Group Meeting – January 19, 2021
Ann: North American user group meeting in January was highly successful. It should help get more membership and adoption. People wanted to do this again, and we will be doing this twice a year going forward. This was a great opportunity to build our community. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/2021+North+American+Users+Meeting
There were a lot of great presentations, comments, questions – a packed event!
Anthony: (in chat) And Julia was an amazing timekeeper!
Bruce: As a result of this meeting, the Director of the Western Michigan University Library contacted me expressing interest in how to stand up a VIVO for her library.
Meeting adjourned at 12:03p.
