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Agenda
Announcements (0 mins)
Integrating VIVO and DSpace
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We are pleased to have assembled the following team:
- Dragan Ivanovic, VIVO Technical Lead, will direct the efforts
Team members include:
- José Ortiz, Software Developer, from Ecuador
- Michel Héon, Enterprise Architect, University du Quebec a Montreal
- Abhishek Raval and Narendra Kumar from DSquare Technologies will also be participating
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- Under the win some/lose some: Berlin Alliance will join VIVO as Platinum members; University of Idaho (US) is
dropping their membership - Statement on the War in Ukraine (template from Sigma) Group still being edited.
- VIVO Presentations at CRIS 2022 and Open Repositories
- Anna has spoken with a person from Colombia, from the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana
(https://www.javeriana.edu.co/inicio), because they want to start the implementation of a CRIS with VIVO. She
contacted Anna through one of the members of the VIVO Iberoamerican group. She asked Anna many
questions about VIVO and about the implementation of a CRIS. Anna invited her to the Iberoamerican user
group and Anna will probably show her the VIVO SIGMA implementation (which we are working on). If you
have other thoughts on how to help them, please contact Anna.
Discussion (50 mins)
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- Annual Meeting Planning (Ralph O’Flinn, 15 min)
- VIVO track at euroCRIS Conference (Anna, 10 mins)
- The CRIS2022 Conference, May 12-14, Croatia (https://eurocris.org/cris2016-delegates-0)
- The general theme of the conference is “Linking research information across data spaces”, emphasising the need for using the ever more widespread CRIS implementation to ensure smooth and effective mechanisms for research information exchange and aggregation. From Open Science implementation to business intelligence through research assessment, such interoperability mechanisms offer opportunities to improve the research information management processes in many different domains.
- In this conference it will be a specific VIVO track where members of our community will be able to make presentations related to VIVO topics. That is why we invite you to send us your presentation proposals so that we can organize this space dedicated to VIVO within the euroCRIS conference.
- Submit proposals for the VIVO track at the euroCRIS conference: https://cris2022.srce.hr/
- Deadline for submissions: Feb 15th, 2022
- (The officers should present on the VIVO community – the talks are 15-20 mins)
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- Working on cleaning the registry up
We used Registry Data and Active VIVO sites (the work done by Julia and Mike) to analyze what’s the VIVO situation out there. We found out that there are at least 120 records in the registry that either are not active anymore or are not up to date. We want the registry to be a useful tool for us and the community and we’re now reaching out to all the inactive sites to clean the list. - Identified prospects
While working on the Registry and the VIVO active sites, we identified a list of 52 institutions that have an active site of VIVO but are not engaged with the VIVO program. We defined a set of activities we want to put in place in the next months to create a connection with them and possibly have: new members; new participants in WGs; new presentations at events; new user groups - Interoperability with DSpace
We would like to use the effort supported by VIVO (here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/Call+for+Interest%3A+Integrating+DSpace+with+VIVO) to promote VIVO in the DSpace community. We will wait until Phase 1 of the project is almost over to start working and strategizing on outreach activities. In the meantime we’re working on submitting a presentation about this to OR2022. VIVO hasn’t had my presentations at Open Repositories and it could be a good opportunity to start. - New User Groups
I think we could mention the work of the North American User Group and the IberoAmerica User Group. They are both new (I think they were created less than a year ago) and already organized online meetings that were very well attended and they are opening up the outreach opportunities sensibly. - Leaders support
The program needs more members and help from the Leaders would be crucial, especially in reaching out the prospects they personally know.
- Working on cleaning the registry up
4. Financial Report (Terrie/Laurie, 10 mins)
- Shared the quarterly (through 12/31/21) report via listserv
- The budget is a plan; quarterly reports reflect progress against plan at various points in time
- Overall, we are doing well compared to budget.
- Variances are minor but include membership dues, salaries, and IDC
- Overall we are using funds wisely but will want to grow revenue/membership to be able to increase activities and reach
Meeting Minutes
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Integrating VIVO and DSpace
We are excited to announce that we are embarking on Phase 1 of our project to further a VIVO DSpace integration!
You can see the initial call for proposals and phase 1 and 2 details at: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/Call+for+Interest%3A+Integrating+DSpace+with+VIVO
We are pleased to have assembled the following team:
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- At the last VIVO Leadership Group meeting, we discussed VIVO creating a Conflict of Interest Policy
for governance members. (Bruce, 5 min)
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Team members include:
- José Ortiz, Software Developer, from Ecuador
- Michel Héon, Enterprise Architect, University du Quebec a Montreal
- Abhishek Raval and Narendra Kumar from DSquare Technologies will also be participating
Work is underway and we will be sharing the results of phase 1 over the summer and then determine the viability and timing of phase 2.
Bruce expresses Kudos to this DSpace project!
Anna: She did a presentation in workshop related to VIVO. Positive response.
https://eutopia-university.eu/english-version/research/eutopia-train
Discussion (50 mins)
- Annual Meeting Planning (Ralph O’Flinn, 15 min)
- Ralph has participated in the committees these past few years and has graciously accepted this burden.
- Looking forward to the conference.
- Wants to move the date for it back a bit. Early November. Tentative 2nd week
- Online conference appears to be a plus for attendance. It truly allows for worldwide attendance as opposed to US centric.
- Approaching people / groups for involvement
- Schedule / tracks are unclear now
- After call for proposals and acceptance is done it will help with scheduling time / tracks.
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Ann Beynon: Presenting to the group on the Membership / Community Task Force update.
18 paying members ~129K
2 unknown ~ 5K
Current Membership Status https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LmiuZSsf_tIkkt1rgfDiw5ClHmo3Vgch8gO8XK6B9vc/edit#gid=1470882274
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- The statement will be reviewed and voted on, if appropriate.
- Vote on VIVO-Lyrasis MOU. (Bruce, 5 mins)
Is there any need for discussion on the state of VIVO-Lyrasis collaboration? Do we need to improve
the relationship in anyway? If not, then we can sign the MOU (current MOU is attached) - Discussion of group Licenses for the VIVO products (Dragan, Christian, 5-10 mins).
At the moment copyright owner is the Cornell University, we should discuss whether it is possible to
change that, i.e. to define that the VIVO group is copyright owner. We will try to define some actions
in this direction. - Report from the Ontology Group (Any comments Christian?, X Mins)
People from Ontology IG met with Jan Dvorak (CERIF leader from euroCRIS) and Dragan to advance
with the CERIF2VIVO mapping.- Report of the Communications & Marketing Team (Anna & Ann, 15 mins)
Quarterly financial report and creation of additional funding steams (Terrie & Bruce, 10 mins) - Quarterly financial report is attached
- We are slightly under revenue expectations but also underspent in expenses
- We have $ 15,965 in this year’s net assets to date
- We can review and discuss a proposed FY22-23 VIVO budget at the May Leadership
meeting
- Report of the Communications & Marketing Team (Anna & Ann, 15 mins)
- Discuss option for credit card payments for $ contributions to VIVO from individuals via website
- Request institutional one-time funding targeting specific projects
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- Shared the quarterly (through 12/31/21) report via listserv
- The budget is a plan; quarterly reports reflect progress against plan at various points in time
- Overall, we are doing well compared to budget.
- Variances are minor but include membership dues, salaries, and IDC
- Overall we are using funds wisely but will want to grow revenue/membership to be able to increase activities and reach
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