Calls are held every Thursday at 1 pm eastern time – convert to your time at http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com
Announcements
Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 29 June 12 at noon EDT
Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement Just got off this week’s call -- notes at or review the last call notes at http://goo.gl/AHPqoe
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is May 27 Tuesday, June 10 at 1pm EDT
Updates on Ontology Working Group Meeting from 5/15
Fundref Q&A
Updates from W3C data set working group from 5/19
Agenda to be determined
VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 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.
VIVO Conference: August 6-8 Austin, TX
Registration is open – early bird rate through June 20 and lodging discount at venue (Hyatt Regency) through July 3 is based on availability
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 trainingNext themed weekly call topic – May 22ndJune 5: VIVO 1.7 ReleasePerformance Discussion
Follow up on April 24 callDiscuss 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 due May 29
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 29VIVO Performance Troubleshooting activity: volunteers?
- VIVO End User Documentation activity: volunteers?
Site Updates
Brown
Cornell
Duke
DuraSpace
Florida
VIVO at FGV (logics.emap.fgv.br:8080/vivo/)
IFPRI -- International Food Policy Research Institute
Memorial University
Smithsonian
Stony Brook
Symplectic
RPI
Texas A&M
Virginia Tech
Weill Cornell
Notable List Traffic
- TBD
See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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