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The VIVO Project, 2019. We live in interesting times. Lots of change, lots of challenges. Thankfully, the VIVO community works to a common purpose, with support and effort directed toward improving the ability of all of everyone to represent information about scholarship and use that information to showcase the work of scholars, use the information to improve our institutions and our ability to advance, curate and share knowledge, and to help people find the expertise they need. Here are just a few of the things we can look forward to in 2019:
The world of scholarship, 2019. Much is changing in the world of scholarship, particularly as it relates to VIVO as a collector and representation of the efforts of scholars at institutions. Two big ideas seem to be gaining ground.
Open, disambiguated metadata at scale. ools for combining metadata for VIVO and other systems was discussed with SHARE (Rick Johnson), 221B (Jeff Speiss), CD2H (Kristi Holmes) and others. I feel the ecosystem is reaching a tipping point where gathering the world’s open metadata is within the reach of several open groups are poised to apply machine learning for disambiguation. Research Graph, ERNIE, SHARE, Impact Story, CrossRef, Internet Archives, Wikidata and WikiCite, CD2H and others are all within reach of creating and providing disambiguated meta data at scale. 2019 should be an interesting year.
The distributed web. It seems odd to talk about the distributed web – isn't the web very distributed with millions of web sites and billions of pages. Well, yes, but. Several large information sources dominate the web – Google, Facebook, and other super-centralized information sources create controlled environments. Perhaps data can remain with its curators and be used as needed across the web. The Solid Project at MIT, Triple Pattern Fragments (in VIVO and other systems), and other efforts look to provide data and services in a truly distributed manner.
What are additional "big ideas" we should be considering as we develop strategy and plans for VIVO? Join the conversation on our email lists, Slack, and help shape the project by becoming a developer, a member, a documentation specialist, a task force lead, or involved with project governance. It looks to be a very interesting year.
Calls this week All times US Eastern. Task forces and interest groups are always interested in new participants. All meetings via Zoom with dial-in numbers available.
- Development Interest Group will meet Tuesday at 11 AM
- VIVO Conference Planning Task Force will meet Wednesday Internationalization (i18n) will meet Tuesday at 10 AM
- Development VIVO Commiters will meet Tuesday Wednesday at 11 10 AM
- Production Product Evolution Task Force will meet Wednesday, 10 11 AM
- VIVO Steering The Ontology Interest Group will meet Friday, 11 AMThursday at 11 AM
- Project Resources will meet Thursday at 10 AM
- Structure and Governance will meet Thursday at 10 AM
- 2018 Membership Task Force will meet Thursday at3 PM
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director