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Calls are held every Thursday at 1 pm eastern time (GMT-5) – convert to your time at http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com – and note that the U.S. is on daylight savings time.

Edit this page permanently at https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/l8MQAg, or use the temporal Google Doc for notescollaborative note taking during the call.

Updates

• Brown (Steve)

• Debugging issue with bad characters and with deleting those triples -- Paul noted that you need to configure MySQL for UTF8 in ~9 places and was going to forward a message to the list

• Colorado (Stephen and Alex)

• Question related to work on a CSV/XML download feature for search results -- posted to list

• Also working on new visualizations (chord diagram, force directed graph, Google timeline) targetting 1.6 release

• Polishing CU-Boulder theme for 1.6

• Working on data testing (comparison of two VIVO instances) script to support 1.6 migration

• Cornell

• Duke
• Florida
• Stony Brook
• UCSF

• (Jim, Tim and BrianL)

• configuration ontology (ISF) changes to support 1.6

• wiki documentation

• Florida (Nicholas)

• more data cleanup such as identifying exception rules, like test accounts and faculty who shouldn’t be public, to add to harvester

• Memorial (John and Lisa)

• building office furniture :)

• continuing to meet with stakeholders regarding ontology extensions

• Scripps (Michaeleen) - Scripps administration approved a contract with Stella Mitchell for 6 weeks of VIVO support for the remainder of FY 2013 (June 1 - September 30) to work on the following:

• Create a design to handle and represent NIH grant data in a way that links awards related to a single scientific research project

• Ingest all NIH grant application types from 2008-present for The Scripps Research Institute (CA campus) and Scripps Florida

• Encode one primary position for each PI then link grants to administering departments

• Link grants to the resulting publications

• Add PMCID hyperlinks to the publications list view

• Investigate linking publications to departments

• Perform VIVO 1.6 upgrade

• Provide general technical support

• Stony Brook (Tammy)

• working on Web ID integration

• Weill Cornell (Paul)

• Eliza working on new publication ingest method, which will be semi-automated

• modifying Weill theme templates for faculty profile to experiment with some block level elements, bringing them inline

• also experiment with profile template to collapse different publication types into one list and give users ability to sort via dropdown (time cited, pub type, internal ranking, newest/oldest) and then do same thing for grants -- does this sound possible? Jim thinks so

• Seeing a Java error related to Director role? Jim recommended posting details to the list

Weill Cornell

VIVO webinars

• The slides and recording from the May 14 VIVO Overview webinar are available online.

• John Fereira gave a NISO/DCMI webinar May 22 that is now available online

   –

  – contact him for the password

  
  User Profileuserjaf30

   (jaf30 at cornell dot edu)

• we have two more upcoming webinars:

• • June 4 -- Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Duke, Brown and Weill Cornell Medical College.  

    Register 

    Register HERE

  • June 11 -- VIVO Technical Deep Dive.

     Register 

    Register HERE

Notable implementation and development list issues

VIVO 1.6

• VIVO 1.6 release code freeze is July 22 to allow 3 weeks of testing before the VIVO conference

• See the VIVO 1.6 release planning and check out the now-editable VIVO map 

• Planning a date for meeting to discuss 1.6 feature freeze -- TBA 

VIVO 2013 Conference

• Register before June 21 for best rate and conference hotel availability
  • https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/vivo2013/register/ 
  • Through June 21st - $350
  • June 22nd – July 19th - $450
  • July 20th – August 13th - $550
  • Onsite - $600

Notable implementation and development list issues

• Stephen's question on mapping templatemodels to FreeMarker templates (thread)
• Stephen's question and Tim's response on visualization on homepage for VIVO 1.6 (thread)
• Stephen's question on mapping terms w/o pubs on Map of Science (thread)
• Web analytics followup mentions Site AI from Mark Fallu: "We have been playing with site.ai http://www.siteai.com/share/2672/2013/5/22/fcsjiggewdpechaafwpfjedlkvjhvipu"
  
  • see new wiki page Web Analytics for VIVO wiki page which tracks this concern
• See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads

• anything more on Fuseki behind Apache (Stephen) -- working on a domain name issue - “sparql.vivo.colorado.edu” with central IT and within the Fuseki code that needs you to be at the root of the domain

• Web Stats for VIVO sites (Alex) – Had lunch with some local web and mobile app startup founders and they spent a good portion of lunch talking about the analytics tools they were using. It seemed like most used Google Analytics (GA), but had moved beyond GA and were praising Mixpanel (https://mixpanel.com) and Chartbeat (https://chartbeat.com) as alternatives that were more accessible than GA for startups (aka small teams with no analyst FTEs). 
  • does anyone have experience with Mixpanel or Chartbeat? what parts of Analytics do people find useful? what questions are we trying to answer?
  • Eric -- UCSF uses Analytics heavily and an effort amongst the research networking group (in communication with the evaluation group) to come up with a common way to use analytic tools so all the CTSAs using research networking platforms have a common set of stats -- industry benchmarks, in effect
  • Paul -- I've personally used Woopra before. Weill has been using New Relic and finds that useful for performance issues, including its ability to send notifications
  • Duke has been following tweets about scholars@duke 
  • Mark (via list) We have been playing with site.ai
• see also VIVO 1.6 release planning in this wiki and check out the now-editable VIVO map

Call-in Information

Date: Every Thursday, no end date

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