Raw Data & Goals by Strategic Theme 20141126.xlsx
| Theme: Community | Theme: Sustainability | Theme: Technology | |
| Outreach – convey usability, maturity, and coherence in all aspects of web presence. Crowdsourcing will not accomplish this. | A software release process that's driven not by incremental improvements desired by existing users but by exciting and useful new features that can capture the imagination and energy of new adopters | Data integration and standardization across multiple systems - Cerif, ORCID, SciENcv, Profiles, LOKI, etc. | |
| Streamlined web presence; straightforward, timely communications that can be easily understood by prospective users or contributors | Transforming an informal network of committed individuals into a sustainable community offering transparent governance, the capability to deliver production-quality software and ontology, and an openness to new ideas and directions | Quality ontology/standards management and development for a better integration into the software stack (or for other applications as well). | |
| Communicating where we are as a community, what we offer, and how we can partner with other organizations and movements to achieve goals such as shared identifiers and data interoperability | Clearer articulation of the value proposition to the academic community | Providing input for use case driven evolution of the VIVO-ISF data standard. | |
| Clearer communication of community activities ( user documentation, software release schedule, working groups, etc) so that active members know where things are headed and potential members can learn about activities. | Clearer communication of VIVO's value proposition over other systems or data model in this space. | Maintaining the technical and feature advantage of VIVO over other platforms, particularly ones deployed outside of institutions, eg. academia.edu, researchgate, impact story, figshare and the like. All of these external platforms have compelling value propositions for individual academics and may impact on take up of VIVO at an institutional level. Effective integration with all of these external platforms may act to reduce the challenge they represent. | |
| Improve communications, transparency, and participation | To grow the installed base, we need to improve the value proposition. | Better integration with content management systems from fedora (data management app development frameworks) to drupal (standard off the shelf content management) will prepare VIVO for a future of facilitating direct access to research data and related resources. | |