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Develop an Ontology development process - how is the ontology developed?
Release 1.9 (before conference) – including new technical documentation
Organize VIVO Labs – a method for experimenting with new VIVO capabilities. See the Contributed Software Task Force Report
Develop a 1.10 roadmap – using the VIVO Roadmap Process, continue the user group discussions to develop a roadmap for version 1.10
Approach to Expert finding – consider how best to move forward with significant new capability in expert finding
Approach to Central Services – consider how best to establish significant, sustainable, central services for cross-site search and disambiguation
- Approach to VIVO Futures – consider how best to further discussion regarding technical debt, and architectural issues for future VIVO software.
Thanks to all who attended! Attendee list is here https://goo.gl/yFmWea The discussions were incredible!
Special thanks to Kristi Holmes for hosting the meeting and to the staff at Northwestern for their hospitality and assistance. Chicago is a lovely city, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern is close to the lake and close to Michigan Avenue with many top attractions, amazing food, and shopping.
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We will have more regarding the user group meeting in a trip report, and user group meeting report to come. Stay tuned.
Community Leadership Summit. VIVO folks Julia Trimmer, Alex Viggio, and debra hanken kurtz will be attending the Community Leadership Summit in Austin Texas, May 15-16.
Duraspace Retreat. Mike Conlon and Graham Triggs will be attending a bi-annual Duraspace retreat in White Plains Georgia, May 9-12. This is an opportunity to connect to other Duraspace projects, and develop strategy for the next six months. We will report back here next week.
Duraspace/Lyrasis Board Meeting. Mike Conlon will be attending a joint Duraspace/Lyrasis board meeting in Atlanta Georgia, May 15. The intent to merge will be discussed.
Development Call. The Development Interest Group will have its call this Thursday at 1 PM US Eastern time. Developers interested in VIVO 1.9 should plan to attend.
OpenVIVO. A VIVO anyone can join. Have you tried OpenVIVO? 162 people in 12 countries have signed on to OpenVIVO, with 975 works entered from ORCiD, PubMed and Figshare. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Comments on all things VIVO. Questions, comments, concerns, ideas for VIVO? Non-technical items are always welcome on vivo-community@googlegroups.com Technical items are best shared on vivo-tech@googlegroups.com. The VIVO community is always looking to help and always interested in questions and comments from all!
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director