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Announcements
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call April 21 at 1pm ET
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Ontology Working Group: next call May 5 at 1pm ET
When there’s no Apps & Tools or Ontology call, there’s usually an “office hours” call for informal, unscripted questions about the ontology
VIVO Task Force updates (wiki home)
VIVO Contributed Software Task Force - soliciting participation
Standard Visualization Suite Task Force - seeking a facilitator
2015 VIVO Conference Call for Papers now open!
All submissions through EasyChair due by Friday, April 24th 5:00 PM PST
More info and links online: http://vivoweb.org/blog/2015/04/2015-call-papers-now-open
Brigitte: how likely is the deadline to be extended? Jon: it has already been extended once in past years, but there may be a late breaking call for lightning talks. Only a 1-page abstract required for presentations, panels, and posters. No formal proceedings, so a paper is more of a presentations. Posters are showcased at a cocktail reception -- no related presentation required.
Conference registration will be opening soon -- look for the announcements
VIVO Tech Lead job description has been posted at http://duraspace.org/jobs
Please help circulate so we attract the best candidates
VIVO 1.8 release update
Draft of release notes: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVONEXT/VIVO+v1.8+Release+Notes
Highlights
improvements in modularity
improvements in performance, especially a full re-inferencing
faster startup (nice for developers)
flexibility to configure VIVO to use other triplestores, thanks in part to Eliza at Weill Cornell’s help
Looking for someone to help make authenticated requests to Virtuoso so Virtuoso’s authentication doesn’t have to be disabled
Schema.org markup being included on several types of pages, thanks to Nate from Colorado
Our second release candidate is out and Holly Mistlebauer has found a couple of issues for Jim and others to address
Remaining issues: a change in the way errors are handled and an error in the mime type of an error message about internationalization
Give it a look and provide feedback from your testing
Caveat: n3 application config file moved in v1.8 -- has to be copied to the VIVO home config directory
Don -- are there switches for TDB? Jim -- they are on the wiki for the next release -- will send a link
John F -- trying to get going with Virtuoso -- can’t yet successfully execute the SPARQL update
Eliza’s changes were applied to 1.7 but have been incorporated into the restructured access code in 1.8
Check out the current release candidate at maint-rel-1.8 at the head of the branch
Next Thursday's call: Kristi Holmes will be joining to talk about VIVO and other communities
Look for the recording of today’s ORCID-VIVO webinar, featuring Kristi, on http://duraspace.org/hot-topics tomorrow
- The event had been oversubscribed -- a popular topic
Updates
Awards ( Internal and Academic Analytics ), CV’s, and 1.7 features are now live at https://vivo.colorado.edu/honors
Geomap
Statistics
CV download
Emailed CU faculty with awards and honors, and saw a spike in web traffic
Doing post-release monitoring to look at search terms, what pages are being hit, etc.
Have a new mechanism for faculty to provide feedback and corrections
CVs also live -- all who have tagged that their vita can be public get that displayed as an email link
Nate is exploring a new harvest process in python after input from Ted and Steven at Brown, using the SPARQL update API in VIVO
Spending a lot of time dealing with performance issues -- for some reason in the late morning the system slows down and we have not found culprits in terms of traffic
Hoping for a VIVO conf paper on site going into beta that connects VIVO to a Blacklight search Rails app, including live interactive web mapping and NY state climate data
Dartmouth (Rodney)
Working on Python tools to import csv data. Able to import profile data, departments, positions, publications, should work with pretty much any data.
Built by entering sample data into VIVO and exporting it to learn the structure
Using a Python RDF library? More just outputting the triples directly into SPARQL update interface.
Hopes to share once stable
Justin (GWU) -- uses Python for loading and has some code for dealing with the SPARQL update interface, including splitting up the data into smaller chunks
Jim - either of these efforts would be great topics for the apps & tools calls
Looking for external data sources for grants, clinical trials, etc.
NIH RePorter?
NSF has a database of grants
This would be a good task force idea
There’s also some interest relative to SciENCV (a National Library of Medicine initiative due to expand to NSF as well as NIH)
Duke (Jim, Greg)
Duke recently went live with VIVO 1.7 upgrade in production -- starting work on updating profile caching and incremental indexing
Patrick has left Duke, so Jim and Greg will be picking up his work
DuraSpace
Emory
Completed a migration from 1.5 to 1.6 on a test instance in an AWS sandbox
22 million triples became 32 million triples
Jim -- there are provisions and instructions in 1.8 for updating from 1.5 all the way through to 1.8
George Washington University (Justin - justinlittman@gmail.com)
recently got a connection to a faculty information database, so switching their VIVO ingest to use this live data instead of a static spreadsheet
Also experimentally pulling data from ORCID records -- not sure it will go into production at GWU, but is hoping to get the code somewhere public so others can try
IFPRI -- International Food Policy Research Institute
Memorial University
Northwestern
Smithsonian
Working on submissions for the VIVO call for papers
Thomson Reuters (Brigitte)
Working on the Harvester ingest, and also trying out Karma
Have done some earlier tests with CSV to learn how best to transform
UCLA
Getting together ideas for the VIVO Conference
Trying to package up the cross-linked faculty data to share it; may start looking at Virtuoso since it’s about 10GB of data
University of Maryland Baltimore County
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
UNAVCO (Benjamin)
Attended meeting (http://earthcube.org/group/tech-hands-meeting) of NSF EarthCube Building Block projects (sub-grants)
Presented on VIVO and our use case along with Don Stott from NCAR -- good response and questions from the ~50 people there
One relevant outcome of the meeting was a geoscience semantics working group as part of the overall EarthCube community
e.g., interest in a portal for geoscience ontologies
ESIP (Earth Science Information Partners) may have a resource but appears to be offline
Has an email out to the implementation list about display limits on a few data properties -- tried to remove that from the add/remove RDF area unsuccessfully so deleted a quad from the MySQL database (shouldn’t be that hard)
Will create a Jira ticket
Virginia Tech (Keith)
Working on VIVO SURA pilot -- sharing grants through VIVO -- working on grants data ingest
Will have data from Elements down the road, but for now is working with CSV data as a proof of concept using
Notable List Traffic
See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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