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Shortcut to temporal Google doc for meeting notes: http://goo.gl/gkRKFt

Announcements

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call March 24 at 1pm ET

• Link to presentation sign up sheet

• Link to presentation template

• Ontology Working Group: next call March 10 at 1pm ET

  • More presentations on local ontology extensions
  • Brian Lowe will be giving a tutorial on the reasons for the different directories for loading the ontology in the VIVO application -- tbox vs. abox, firsttime vs. everytime
  • When there’s no Apps & Tools or Ontology call, there’s usually an “office hours” call for informal, unscripted questions about the ontology
• 2015 VIVO Implementation Fest: to be hosted March 16-17 (optional activity on 18th) by Oregon Health and Science University in Portland

  • Official announcement at http://vivoweb.org/blog/2015/01/announcing-2015-vivo-implementation-fest

  • 4 themes with some overlap are being pulled into a rough schedule by tomorrow

  • • ontology

    • data integration

    • visualization

    • “end to end” work with a brand new VIVO on a Vagrant VM, and walking through the process of configuring VIVO, ingest

  • Please register soon -- ~30 people registered and space is limited

  • Next planning call is March 3rd

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• Host environment considerations (memory allocation, storage config, OS config)
  • special Virtual Machine considerations? AWS, VMWare, other?
• Apache Jena 
  • Do you have Jena configuration options?
  • Profiling Jena? Easy to access info in standard server logs?
  • Jena enhancements in newer/future releases?
  • Scaling Jena? Jena HBase, Hadoop RDF Tools, etc?

• MySQL

  • What MySQL configuration options matter?

    profiling MySQL
  • Profiling MySQL? Easy to access info in standard server logs?
  • MySQL enhancements in newer/future releases?
  • scaling MySQL – horizontal Scaling MySQL? Horizontal sharding, jetpants, vitess, MySQL Fabric, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for Aurora, WebScaleSQL?
  Apache Jena 
  • Jena configuration options?
  • profiling Jena
  • Jena enhancements in newer/future releases?scaling Jena – Jena HBase, Hadoop RDF Tools, etc
• Related topics
  
  • Alternative triple stores? Stardog, Virtuoso, Bigdata, etc?
  • MySQL alternatives as Jena backends backends? Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc?
  • Apache Solr-related concerns?

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