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Mozilla Science Global Sprint. More hereThanks to Alex Viggio for organizing VIVO's participation in the Mozilla Science Global Sprint. And thanks to Justin Littman for his outstanding work on ORCID2VIVO, serving as topic for the sprint. Ted Lawless and Mike Conlon contributed code. I had my first pull request as a developer. The sprint serves as a model for open source development and contributed to raising awareness for VIVO around the world. ORCID2VIVO will certainly grow in importance as more authors get ORCID identifiers and more publishers request and manage ORCID identifiers as part of their processes. The software also serves as a model for ingest software based on identifiers to external services. There are many examples of such ingests – PubMed, CrossRef, ORCID, repositories and many others. Learning more about these type of ingests should be of great interest to many of us. Thanks again to the sprint team – Alex, Justin and Ted. See Justin's Github repo for the project.
Web site task force. Interested in helping with the new VIVO web site? Have video, graphics, experience with writing for the web? Please consider joining the web site task force. With a little bit of elbow grease we should have the new site available in time for the conference. If you are interested, please drop me a note at mconlon@duraspace.org Thanks!
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