Notes from 20141212 Planning Call
Attendees:
Melissa Haendel
Julia Trimmer
Jon Corson-Rikert
Paul Friedman
Nicole Vasilevsky
Layne Johnson
Carol Minton- Morris
Meeting space:
Meeting space at OHSU for 40-50 ppl
Dates:
03/16/15-03/18/15
Main event: Monday and Tuesday
Optional 3rd day for "deep dive" meetings and working sessions on ontology, requirements gathering and use case development, etc
Social event Sunday evening, 3/15, likely at a local brew pub.
Conference room:
BICC gallery is booked for both days
AI: Need to book breakout rooms, how many people in each breakout? What times? (probably won’t be able to book the breakout rooms all day)
Suggested hotels:
Hotel: River’s Edge, OHSU promotional rate is available
http://www.riversedgehotel.com/
Transportation to OHSU: Tram, cab
Restaurant options nearby: Aquariva
Hotel: Paramount Hotel, rates start at $129/nt
http://www.portlandparamount.com/
Transportation to OHSU: Bus, cab, streetcar to tram
Restaurant options nearby: Numerous downtown restaurants
Hotel: Hotel Lucia, rates start at $144/nt
Transportation to OHSU: Bus, cab, streetcar to tram
Restaurant options nearby: Numerous downtown restaurants
Recommended downtown restaurants:
Casual:
Bunk sandwiches
Grassa
Lardo
Fancier:
Little Bird
Oven and Shaker
Gruner
Notes from Julia Trimmer:
Would do again:
· I liked having a hotel close by the seminar rooms.
· I thought the sessions were nice and casual.
· I would give maps of the buildings, the neighborhood, and the area of town we’re in.
Would do differently:
· I would NOT use the same form for registering attendees b/c it was really hard to pull together a good list of attendees and nametags from the old form. I’d use one with separate fields for first name, last name, title and organization.
· I would not worry about making reservations for large groups at local restaurants. We basically had only one group of 10 on one night.
· I would make use of the local chamber of commerce for maps, dining info.
· I’d probably buy fewer snacks, and I would ask colleagues to take of the snack breaks – I ended up doing too much of that on my own.
· I might try to do a big social event one evening – but we didn’t really have a venue for this.
Meeting 12/12/14
Agenda items include:
a general ifest overview - Julia, Jon, any others
iFest at Duke last year, 4th year
2014 iFest lasted five days, with a hackathon on the first day, three days of programmed activities divided into three tracks, and a workshop on the last day.
last year’s schedule — http://goo.gl/BW9lW9
3 tracks
50 people
structured in a lot of networking time
identification of key communications messages - All, Carol-Minton Morris
focus for this year- ontology (Shahim, Brian Lowe), data integration (Chris Barnes and/or Dave Eichmann), data visualization (Paul)
lots of sites only using part of the stack, diversity and pain points. help OHSU set up part of the stack- integrate data, pump out compliant data
training, using protege, how to extend the ontology and participate in development,
use case development, what new visualizations, using the data
extending ontology to support metrics, eval,
extending ontology for humanities
a reduced number of presentations and more on people getting involved
a strategic time for VIVO -- how do we move forward with our organizational infrastructure and priorities
Julia -- last year we tried to make it less of a conference and more participatory
if we assign times to people, do they go into automatic presentation mode? encourage more hands-on tutorials
More on the tutorial and data hacking side than writing applications
as an implementation fest, turning on the moving parts, filling them in, getting data out
keep consistency with the title
with a subtitle theme of data modeling/ontology development, data integration, and visualization
Paul - would be willing to have a session on using VIVO data in viz tools
exposure, training, and work planning
Melissa -- assign a lead to coordinate those 3 threads
would like people with expertise in VIVO data
Paul and a partner on the visualization theme -- Chris or Don
Chris Barnes or David Eichmann the data integration theme
Brian Lowe and Shahim lead the ontology effort (also interest from Alexandre Rademacher, Nate Prewitt from CU Boulder, and/or
what sessions from last time do we want to have again?
open social- eric meeks, tutorial so people actually implement a gadget in VIVO
SPARQL 101
Harvester -- see if we can get John Fereira
Melissa -- arrange the sessions in an end-to-end implementation with a demo data set
identify and harvest data (John Fereira, with Denver Fletcher from Converis to speak about his work)
populate the triple store
fire up a VIVO using the VIVO Vagrant tool (Ted Lawless, Don Elsborg, and/or Alex Viggio)
do some minor customizations -- list views, a custom form
add opensocial gadgets
extend the ontology
pull data out for visualizations and reporting
Layne -- we could produce an “Implementation Resource” based on the “end-to-end” approach for implementing VIVO - for new people to be able to use for installing and implementing VIVO - work on this documentation - probably the day after the i-fest
review of processes for program input and development
vivo search
what days?
Social event on Sunday night, 03/15
Monday and Tuesday March 16 & 17
optional extension into Wednesday for a deeper dive? (yes) in 2 smaller spaces
would
Action items:
NV: Look into meeting space at the River’s Edge
NV: Look into meeting space in 429 for 03/18 (try to reserve two spaces)
All: Reach out to team leads
Paul: find partner on visualization team
MH: reach out to Dave regarding integration theme and finding a partner (chris barnes or Ted Lawless)
MH: Shahim and Brian, involve Alexandre and Violeta
Jon: Paul Albert- create registration form, try to get a head count including for Sunday night
Jon: reach out to Don for the end-to-end
Ontology - Shahim, Bryan;
Alexandre Rademacher (Fundacao Getulia Vargas)
Violeta Ilik, Northwestern
Nate Prewitt (CU Boulder)
Josh Hanna (UF)
Integration - David Eichmann
Chris Barnes
Visualization -Paul Friedmann
End-to-end
Don Elsborg
Alex Viggio
Layne J.
Announcement: Carol & Layne
VIVO I-Fest is happening! We’ll be meeting in Portland at OHSU on March 16-18.
Themes this year are
Layne to update a wiki page for the i-fest -- https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/zQACB
