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Announcements
Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, July 10 at noon EDT
Agenda to be determined
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is Tuesday, July 8 at 1pm EDT
Agenda to be determined
Last call: VIVO Apps and Tools Call: Batch loading images for VIVO; examples from Duke and discussion
VIVO Conference: August 6-8 Austin, TX
Registration is open – lodging discount at venue (Hyatt Regency) through July 3 is based on availability
- Organizers working on final schedule
Working Group Activities
VIVO 1.7 development
VIVO 1.7 RC3 available
Doing limited testing because RC2 came close to passing
Putting together the release announcement
1.7 will not require a data migration so no changes to data ingest will be required; but there is a data migration for the users accounts that have still be stored in RDB; rationale is that Jena has deprecated RDB
The raw triples for the content will remain in SDB for VIVO 1.7; the triples for user accounts will be in TDB (so not accessible through the same endpoint as the primary data).
Note that the Apache Jena project has indicated that support for SDB is going away, so part of the work for VIVO 1.8 will be exploring TDB as a primary data store, as well as other triple store options; not yet committing to TDB; Eric to look at performance of TDB
VIVO 1.6.2 is out, fixes a memory leak. See here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vivo/files/VIVO%20Application%20Source/
- And, we’re looking at a 1.6.3. We found a SPARQL query that does not scale well.
Site Updates
Brown --- (Steven) -- Ted has developed a new publication harvesting feature that pulls publications from CrossRef and from the Harvard Profiles system for PubMed data -- for faculty members to manage publications as they become discovered and add them to their profiles, as well as supporting manual publication entry
The bug fix for 1.6.2 has been stable on VIVO Cornell for 2 weeks now
Patrick is making progress on providing citation format options to users and he will pass that forwarding to the report creation tool,
Sheri continuing to work on professional activities and adding that to our VIVO.
Scholars is completely rolled out now, and it will be opened up to non-faculty soon
DuraSpace (Layne) -- the Webinar yesterday had 40+ attendees
also working on a draft prospectus for VIVO search (an upgrade to http://vivosearch.org) since we have interest and will be putting together funding support, which hopes to circulate more widely soon
not being framed just to appeal to any single group such as CTSAs -- could be used by regional groups, disciplinary groups, etc.
Emory -- (Michael Mitchell and Daniel Grant)
Just getting started after some work at the IFest -- had been working on a Symplectic connector as an extension to the Harvester. Worked to update to changes in the 1.6 ontology -- changes mostly to the XSLTs but will monitor the GitHub code base
IFPRI -- International Food Policy Research Institute
Memorial University
SmithsonianLooking for feedback on the Yaffle ontology; a review from the working group
And for instructions on loading the Yaffle module into the ISF -- Brian will send a note and add to the wiki
When added the ontology into VIVO and try to export it, the export did not include the classes and properties in the Yaffle namespace, while they did show up when exported the VIVO core ontology
was able to do successfully in 1.5 but seems to be broken in 1.6
Scripps (Michaeleen)
Catherine & Michaeleen will be attending the Austin conference
VIVO Survey submitted last week
Smithsonian
Stony Brook
Symplectic
RPI/Deep Carbon Observatory
(Patrick) -- had a workshop in Troy a couple weeks ago for the Deep Carbon secretariat and presented the VIVO-CKAN-Drupal integration; will be moving to use Shibboleth
And starting a similar set of services for the entire RPI campus, for use by faculty staff and services; will be replacing 2-3 faculty existing profile systems. Will support import from ResearchGate and other external systems
Looking to be able to go to a form, enter a DOI, submit it to CrossRef, and pull back the publications into VIVO -- could perhaps build on Mummi Thorisson’s work on GitHub
Texas A&M
UCLA
UCSF (Eric)
Nick Benik is working to put the application he’s demonstrated at previous VIVO conferences up on a website and making it available as an OpenSocial gadget-- focusing on demonstrating cross-site linkages
can be done in contexts beyond publications -- conference attendance, participation in running clinical trials
or imports of LinkedIn or ResearchGate contacts
USC is working on a way to bring clinical trials data into Profiles -- ClinicalTrials.gov data is hard to parse, but they have been able to clean and parse the data in a generalized way that could be a good starting point for people wanting to pull that data into their system
A question -- WHO is looking into research profiling -- Federico Sancho at IICA in Costa Rica is organizing a meeting the week after the VIVO conference, and will be speaking himself at the VIVO conference about plans for a Latin and South American research network
Virginia Tech (Julie)
Symplectic Elements implementation in process; reviewing and preparing bibliographic data for import into Elements
Looking at Digital Measures data to see if can parse out some information for import into Elements
Especially for intellectual outputs other than journal articles -- faculty have been entering that data for years and want to preserve it and bring it over into Elements
Looking at a phased, campus-wide implementation of Elements
Handful of profiles in VIVO for library and research institute faculty; will be looking at the VIVO Harvester
We may have successfully addressed the “LastName, FirstName” / “FirstName LastName” issue but I don’t know how.
Fixed a lot of our errors associated with appointment ingest
Continuing to work on updating certain parts of Harvester to work with 1.6
The way had been using multiple graphs, had triggered a check for each user of whether the user had permission to edit the graph; harder to address for logged-in users, but want to investigate in case there are implications for performance
Notable List Traffic
- VIVO Java job posting for CU-Boulder
- Enriching VIVO Content Using SPARQL Query Data Getters
- performance, installation guide
- Field of Research (FOR) code
- Code for Automated Photo Uploads
- link to web of science
- Ordering by last name on people page
- Vitro and Jetty
- Vivio and Book Chapters
- Minting IRIs
- Customization inquiry from Paris -- managing labels in both French and EnglishTBD
See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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