May 22, 2014 VIVO Implementation and Development Call
Theme Call: What's coming in VIVO 1.7
Announcements
Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 29 at noon EDT
Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement or review the last call notes at http://goo.gl/AHPqoe
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is May 27 at 1pm EDT, with guests Melissa Haendel, Brian Lowe, and Shahim Essaid to talk and answer questions about the VIVO-ISF ontology
VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)
Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M (workshop co-organizer) and Ted Lawless from Brown will be attending -- final planning call next week.
Working Group Activities
VIVO 1.7 development -- includes upgrades to several libraries, in part to facilitate longer-term theme of improving VIVO performance as data scales
VIVO 1.8 will then be targeted for late fall as part of moving to a predictable release schedule. The VIVO working groups will be looking for input from the community in many forms, including how to lower barriers to participation in developing code, submitting ontology extensions, fixing bugs, adding documentation, providing testing, and helping with training
Next themed weekly call topic – May 22nd: VIVO 1.7 Release
Discuss features completed, and some pending tasks related to performance, sAPI improvements, Semantic Web library upgrades, Solr upgrade, bug fixes.
First annual survey of VIVO sites
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
VIVO Performance Troubleshooting activity: volunteers?
VIVO End User Documentation activity: volunteers?