Agenda
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Please please add or suggest any additional items.
Updates
- Brown –
- Duke –
- Florida –
- Johns Hopkins –
- Memorial University of Newfoundland –
- NARCIS (Netherlands) –
- Scripps –
- UCLA –
- Weill Cornell –
- Cornell Ithaca –
Current open issues
Research interest descriptions
Research area/interest and description (JHU) - Some faculty would like to separate expertise from research interest, and have description associated with each research area. For a faculty with several research areas, vivo:researchOverview need be sliced for consumption by a project website, which only display description of one or two research areas.
In a brief discussion on the 2013-02-06 VIVO Ontology Call, we ascertained that the descriptions of research interests need to be separate entities linked to both the person and the research area, a concept typically from a controlled vocabulary, that may be linked to by several people and/or organizations or projects. This is not a role but more of an annotation on the connection between the person and the research area or topic.
In continuing the discussion on this call, Brian mentioned a recent focus by the W3C on support for annotations via the http://openannotation.org/spec/core – it seems more straightforward than reification (giving an RDF statement its own URI and adding multiple additional statements about that statement) and appears to be intended for a similar purpose (applying terminology to resources) to what Jing describes as the use case at Hopkins.
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Please review and add content to any of the discussion pages set up after the recent ontology calls:
- Research Areas, Keywords, Interests and Expertise
- Mapping PubMed publication types to VIVO
- Representing and displaying re-publication or performance
Knowledge Mobilization Working Group
The working group has had two meetings since the last ontology call and is developing use cases on the Knowledge Mobilization Ontology interest group page in this wiki page for additional discussion.
Implementation Fest planning
- Will This year's Implementation Fest is hosted again by the University of Colorado and will be held Thursday and Friday, April 25-26 in Boulder, Colorado, a 45-minute bus ride from Denver International Airport
- Visit the 2013 VIVO Implementation Fest page for more details on logistics and the schedule as it evolves
- There will be several ontology sessions at the event, including reviews of the existing ontology and working sessions to work through open issues and address know areas where improvements or extensions have been requested.
- Please add suggestions for areas of discussion here, which we will try to accommodate in the schedule as we develop it.
- Research grants – what are the differences between grants, awards, and contracts? How do NIH and NSF (and other funding agencies) model grants, so that VIVO can align data harvested from NIH RePorter or research.gov?
- Distinctions among North American, British, continental European, Australian and New Zealand academic position types
VIVO Conference workshop planning
Other issues as time permits
- Jon has created a page on Representing and displaying re-publication or performance The VIVO conference call for workshops is being prepared – does anyone have suggestions of workshops they would either like to participate in giving, or requests for a workshop topic that they would find compelling?
WebEx Call-in Information
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