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Representing Academic Degrees in VIVO. In case you missed it, there was a very active discussion regarding the representation of academic degrees in VIVO on the dev-all lists this week. Types of degrees, abbreviations for degrees, awards associated with degrees, local variations in the names of degrees, international degrees, extensions and local practices were discussed. Jon Corson-Rikert updated the VIVO-ISF 1.6 relationship diagrams: Educational Training to clarify some of the issues discussed and to show how awards pertaining to degrees (typically honors of various kinds) might be associated with degrees.
Maven for VIVO. Graham and I would like to consider the use of Maven in future releases of VIVO. Maven is a popular Java build tool that integrates with IDEs and simplifies the effort needed to create a development environment for VIVO coding, testing and deployment. Maven also simplifies and modernizes dependency management and provides additional opportunities for improving the three tier build process. Please comment on a proposal for using Maven here.
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