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not an enterprise system, doesn't scale
VIVO Breakout Session Mike Conlon, recorder
Mike Conlon (UF), Bill Barnett (IU), Hal Warren, Julia Trimmer, mike Bolton (TamU), dean Krafft, Robert McDonald, mike Winkler (Penn), Daniel Calto (Elsevier), Jonathan Breeze (Symplectic), Alex Viggio, Paul Albert (Weill), Delphine Canno (temple, by Skype), Andrew Ashton (Brown), Jon Corson-Rikert (by video)
VIVO Roadmap -- Dean Krafft, Facilitator
Vivo 1.6 -- VIVO-ISF, CTSAConnect, Eagle-I, bidirectional API via SPARQL, HTTP caching, search indexing, developer tools, landing page improvements. 1.6.1 running through tests.
If a grant or other sponsor can pay for a specific feature that does not take away from the strategy or roadmap, and gifts back the feature to the vivo core, there is general support.
A collection of architectural use cases -- an engine, an aggregator, an information representation, as data store used for external apps, Balance use cases in the development roadmap.
Need for documentation. Using, installing, adding code. To build development community -- Internal code needs documentation. Architecture documents. Development process. On boarding documentation.
Control the rank ordering in search results
Linked data for libraries will need billion triple scale stores and support for commercial triple stores.
Internationization. Labeling. Or in operation of the software.
Archival vivo.
External URIs.
Ontology editor improvements, application ontology, ISF module support
Multi-site search
Vivo linkages
Annual survey at the Ifest.
With ISF, would I need eagle-I? Would an eagle-I need VIVO?
How is the roadmap developed? Users, sponsors, technical. Interaction with grant funded effort. Community of developers. Balancing allocation. Sponsors, steering. Ideas -> proposals -> vetting -> deciding
Time-based vs feature-based release?
Most prefer time-based release. Easier to plan. Possibly bi-annual.
Action items
Project Director. Community assessment before Austin? Time at Austin? Roadmap proposal. Functioning organization, roadmap development
Governance -- Jonathan Markow, Facilitator
Reviewed the project charter describing governance and membership.
Spending incubation period developing governance and membership. Founding members are Platinum members with designation as Founders. Other levels range from bronze at $2500 to Diamond at $30,00. Membership campaign in the spring -- we have a handful of non-founders currently.
Recognize in-kind contributions. 1/2 developer would be same as platinum, on the leadership group.
Steering committee -- bill, Paul, dean, Jon, mike, Kristi, Robert, Jonathan, Project Director. Should be elected by the leadership group.
Leadership group -- platinum and above. Elect the steering group. Clarify the role of the leadership group
Project members -- submit requests, vote for two at large leadership group members
Work groups
Duraspace
Use cases for governance. How do we create a roadmap? How do we develop a strategic plan? How do we develop and approve a budget? Allocate resources? how (when/process) do we name the steering committee?
Input rights -- bronze and silver
Decision rights -- platinum and diamond
Project members at the bronze level. Consortia membership. Learn from other projects and Duraspace.
VIVO Strategy -- Bill Barnett, Facilitator
VIVO business model -- membership, committed people, project director, Duraspace, alignment with institutuonal interests.
Kernel, application, ontology, applications
Community
What is our business? competitors? Public, shareable, Machine consumable, human attribute storage. With lineage, trust. Create and Share data about scholarly work.
Alliances. People who create and share scholarly work. We're not in the publishing business, administrative function, repository business.
The concept of VIVO data and promoting The production ofVIVO data by any means.
Spurring adoption --early adopters, secondary messaging, early middle (value propositions), late middle (everyone else is doing it,compliance). Enabling implementation, changing the ROI. Having usage and implementation stories at various scales.