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Fall, 2014 Hackathon
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where | Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 |
| When | Monday morning, October 13 -14-through noon Wednesday, October 15, 2014, falling on Columbus Day plus the Tuesday and Wednesday of that week (see Extras below forwith an optional winery tour on Sunday afternoon, October 12 )Note that Monday is Columbus Day – often the height of the fall foliage season |
| Who | Anyone interested in participating and hopefully contributing to the development, documentation, or testing of VIVO software, the VIVO-ISF ontology, or apps & tools to produce, visualize, or leverage VIVO data |
| Cost | There is no No registration fee, but you pay your travel, hotel, and meals. We provide space, our local developers, and light refreshments |
| Goals | Learning, training, gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas, writing documentation, improving the ontology, having fun and encouraging collaborative patterns of work related to VIVO that can continue between such events |
| Extras | If you arrive by noon(ish) Sunday, we are planning a Finger Lakes Winery excursion for the afternoon, including options for dinner |
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Furthermore, this is your event – if you come, you will have a part in deciding what gets worked on and can directly contribute to the event's success.
Logistics including hotel room block – deadline for room reservations is September 12
Proposed Topics
| Topic | Resource Person(s) | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| VIVO-ISF Ontology | Melissa Haendel | Work with the lead of the Ontology Working Group to improve and extend the ontology to be compatible with the HCLS/W3C Dataset Description ontology and work on integrating local extensions that belong in the VIOV-ISF ontology; learn how to use Protégé and other ontology editing and management tools |
| VIVO Harvester | John Fereira | Learn to use the Harvester and help with sample configurations or data, connecting to Karma, extending the types of RDF output it supports, testing, and documentation |
| Consuming data from VIVO | Ted Lawless  | How do you deliver VIVO data to apps written by people who don't know LOD or SPARQL? |
| Adding a new vocabulary service to VIVO | Huda Khan | VIVO can be configured to link to external vocabulary services that meet certain criteria – learn how to link to a new service such as the APA Thesaurus, and/or how to implement a vocabulary service that can serve VIVO or other applications |
| Customizing VIVO | Tim Worrall | Learn how to modify a VIVO list view, how to add a map to the VIVO homepage, and other techniques |
| New visualizations for VIVO | | Use D3 or other JavaScript library to create visualizations on the VIVO profile page, or on related pages. Combine the power of JavaScript with VIVO's APIs. |