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Attendees
- Muhammad Javed
- Mike Conlon
- Don Elsborg
- Ralph O'Flinn
- Steven McCauley
Notes
- The group discussed the purpose of the interest group – to promote tools and applications associated with Vitro and VIVO. The Interest Group has a catalog (curated wiki pages) with structured data, about apps and tools. Anyone can add to the catalog
- The group discussed the current state of the catalog – the entry "Community Projects" in the wiki is confusing. Should be Apps and Tools. The catalog contains projects that are not associated with Vitro or VIVO and should be archived. See action items
- The group discussed VIVO Searchlight. This project from 2011 was and still is intriguing. We will search for archives and information with an eye toward possibly restoring functionality and promoting. See http://web.archive.org/web/20120822050802/http://vivosearchlight.org:80/
- The group discussed two major emerging efforts – ingest and theming. Ingest will likely produce a new application as part of the VIVO suite that can be used to gather items from APIs, disambiguate them and provide VIVO RDF for loading. It is unlikely to be an onboarding tool, but rather a sophisticated enterprise application with a plug-in architecture for adding new sources of data, and a plug-in architecture for adding new output formats. Theming is gathering steam as a development effort.
- There is a new theme in the next release of VIVO. Most of the work has been technical debt/foundational, including repositioning and updating some library dependencies, and adding Twitter Bootstrap and its dependencies. The theme is responsive, but looks very similar to the current VIVO theme. Should form the basis for future theming work with the existing Freemarker architecture. Colorado, Brown, UAB, Duke, UNAVCO may be interested in theming work. There has also been interest expressed in replacing Freemarker. To be discussed on Slack, development calls, and the mailing lists.
- The next release requires an unload and reload of the triple store. It is critical that sites try this procedure and confirm that it works properly, is well documented, and can be completed in reasonable amounts of time. Release testing process is available here: https://goo.gl/Sijqdm
Action Items
- Don Elsborg will add facetview to the catalog.
- Mike Conlon will update the wiki space for apps and tools – create an archive and move materials to it, cleanup the catalog and archive some projects.
- Mike Conlon will create and post notes of this meeting
- Ralph O'Flinn will try the release testing process.
