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- Brown – (Steve). Two new sources of information from campus databases – one that tracks departments and faculty positions, and a course management system. They are working on defining courses, and have added a couple of new classes for departments and positions. Have added an administrative unit class, and have differentiated current and historical positions so that they can be tracked in different parts of the page. Have also created a class for honorary positions.
Digging into unclassified documents from the bulk dump from the outsourced CV data extract – and see the reprints issue described below. It's more common in the humanities to have works re-published in other formats or as excerpts, with the persistence of a work significant in addition to the number of works – e.g., the number of translations of a work or the number of anthologies it is brought into, as one form of recognition by your peers. In music the example might be that a work the person composed being performed by a prestigious symphony orchestra – which could be shown on the work but also wants to appear on the faculty member's page. - Duke – (Amber) – focusing on support materials, development, and the user manual for the School of Medicine rollout – focusing on power users, and doing a gap analysis against current legacy system – hopes to have some items to report from that effort in the future. Doing a "bug mash" with the development team this week to do a lot of testing of drop-down lists, etc, and checking for accurate representation. Would be happy to do a demo of their customized interface at a future meeting.
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland – (Lisa). Still planning the knowledge brokering ontology work; looking at VIVO in the development environment and doing hiring.
- Johns Hopkins – (Jing). Working on the match between the current enterprise research profile and the VIVO research profile; and still working on the Pubmed Harvester, though are trying to cover all faculties.
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- Scripps –
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- Weill Cornell – (Paul). Still working on new publications ingest method, and looking with the Faculty Affairs at Person types to characterize who is faculty (~1315) vs. courtesy, affiliated, emeritus, part-time, etc., including people who fall into multiple categories. One use case is to define the boundaries for certain types of reports, but are also interested in who's publications to grab – especially if someone has an adjunct appointment at Weill but a primary appointment at another institution. Can likely not to be able to get review of publication data for people with only secondary appointments. If want to distinguish primary faculty from affiliates, we recommend making two subclasses of Faculty Member to be able to keep the counts separate.
We need a wiki page to review the different requirements for types of people and people and need to avoid defining types by what they are not – non-faculty academic, or non-university personnel. - Cornell Ithaca –
Current open issues
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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 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.
Implementation Fest planning
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Other issues as time permits
- suggestions for the next call, on February 20 20
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