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Announcements

April 29th call: Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO -- video will be on YouTube soon

Apps and Tools workshop at the conference. Looking for participants to do demos -- looking for the best ways to create, use, visualize VIVO data and would love to have additional authors and help

Information, Interaction, and Influence (May 19-20 at University of Chicago)
- Digital Science Workshop on Research Information Technologies and their Role in Advancing Science (free registration for academics)
- VIVO community members Kristi Holmes and Simon Porter are scheduled to speak, and project director Layne Johnson will be attending
ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest (May 21-22 at University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Community sharing of integration best practices by universities and professional societies, particularly highlighting the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded Adoption and Integration Program projects
- Participation is free but you must register before May 14 – webinar options to be made available if you cannot attend in person
VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)

Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M (workshop organizer) and Ted Lawless from Brown will be attending

The survey: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom
A presentation proposal has been submitted to the conference and in order to have time to compile and analyze the data, responses are requested by May 29

Technical and Developer documentation versus End User documentation
Types of end user documentation: wiki-based versus web application help files
Jim Blake's overview of current VIVO end user documentation on the wiki, with a few highlights such as managing documentation versioning for recent 1.5, 1.6, and the upcoming 1.7 release of VIVO
Dr. Conlon will share his thoughts on improving end user documentation, with specific use cases at University of Florida in mind and how these might be shared with other institutions
As always, we'll encourage attendee participation. Please bring up your end user documentation concerns and suggestions. We hope to hear from institutions that have rolled out VIVO. What questions came up from their end user communities that aren't addressed by the existing documentation. How could institutions best collaborate on documentation?
- Is there interest in an online VIVO end user wiki documentation edit-a-thon, inspired by Wikipedia's app – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon
- GitHub being used by non-coders for local political campaigns and other collaborative writing projects
- Google Docs
- Are there examples from other projects that do documentation better?

Call-in Information

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