Implementation and Development Call 20140821

Themes

• Attendees: Cornell, Smithsonian, IFPRI, Emory, CU-Boulder, UCSF, Virginia Tech, DuraSpace, Duke, Northwestern, Brown

• VIVO Annual Survey Results

• the anonymized results and conference presentation slides can be found here

• questions?

• possible refinements to or gaps in the survey questions?

• interpreting the survey results? how might the survey results be used?

• Layne: a lot of data in the survey result, taken along with presentations at Leadership meeting in Austin, useful input for planning a technical roadmap… are there any questions/concerns not addressed in the survey, that would be helpful in developing this strategy?

• Mary: support model slide… this could be a springboard for exploring in deeper detail in the wiki... how can we start… (Alex: interesting idea using the wiki to explore requirements before creating JIRA tickets or items on a technical roadmap)... Layne: useful to have a place on the wiki to explore concerns/requirements emerging from survey… had a phone call for use by community to help with planning and strategy development…

• Mary: strength of overall survey… good coverage for all the different considerations of a VIVO implementation… helpful as a framework…

• Paul: UCSF Profiles has clear goals for their users (that’s a good think we think)… are their goals that we have for the VIVO community? Learning from how Drupal community has a Proficiency Scale (Alex: links? Google didn’t find for me… also thinking about Scrum certification model)... Layne: good idea… Eric: we has a simple endpoint in mind, not necessarily a simple journey/path, but that goals are easy to understand: “make the researchers look good (not for vanity, but for utility)”... Anirvan studies traffic patterns to try to figure out why people visit UCSF Profiles… “is a bounce a good thing or a bad thing?”

• Examples: https://www.scrumalliance.org/certifications

• Agile software community matured when certifications came onto the scene, e.g. companies willing to pay to have their staff certified… allowed Scrum to leapfrog competing agile methodologies… Certified ScrumMaster vs Certified Scrum Product Owner vs Certified Scrum Developer vs Certified Scrum Professional

• Another example https://www.drupal.org/getting-involved-guide

• Paul: slide on “what is your site’s priority?” -- anyone have comments on this?

• Jim: addressing concerns of the top item (Tools for read/write access) in VIVO 1.6 and 1.7… focus on getting data in, getting data into the right shape

• Don: we want a sustainable ingest process

• Paul: “tools and apps” -- implies something that is not core, whereas some things on this slide are core, some note core, and some inbetween or not related (“marketing”)... Don: tools and apps at LASP… allowed them to build externally without concern for integration/coordination with VIVO core team… but there might be applications where core team might be interested (faceted search)... Paul: how can the core dev team make provision for these requirements/applications (VIVO as a platform), but make it easier for any given site to implement/extend? Anything about 1.6 API that LASP would have wanted… Don: 1.6 API made LASP’s work easier… maybe some of the functionality proposed for 1.8 API… Jim: I saw no response when this was tossed out, so not looking at it as a priority for 1.8 now...

• Action items?

• Mary’s suggestion of pulling requirements and goals out of Survey, as bullet points on wiki page that link to more detailed wiki pages (or identify gaps in wiki documentation)?

• Layne mentioned using survey as input for a task force (Julia Trimmer, others)

• email survey questions to dev or impl mailing lists if you aren’t ready to edit wiki, but want to raise them

• VIVO Hackathon Planning

• general information and proposed topics can be found here

• questions about the proposed topics?

• Holly has put together a registration form (to be launched soon), and not certain if she’ll be able

• Mary: harvesting directly from Symplectic -- Alex: will add myself as a Resource Person on VIVO Harvester row to support this… also will there be space for a user group meeting? Could this fit into Wednesday morning -- send Jon an email and copy Mary and Don… interest in a room where we could host a WebEx conference call to invite remote attendees

• Patrick (Duke): interested in visualization topic, also an app that is consuming VIVO data using JSON (maybe combined with viz)

• Paul: might be able to attend, looking to learn and lending a hand

• Brown: Ted and Steve will be there

• Keith: there to learn, to see how to best contribute

• logistics information

• Jon is planning to go ahead with plan for Sunday winery tour… “you can’t throw a rock without hitting a winery”

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