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Indicating note-taker
- Benjamin Gross
- Huda Khan
- Don Elsborg
- Rachid Belkouch
- William Welling
- Andrew Woods
- Alexander (Sacha) Jerabek
- Brian Lowe
- Ralph O'Flinn
- Michel Héon
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- Andrew is on holiday next week (11 August meeting)
- will create page with blank agenda; we’ll take it from there.
- Agenda item 2 (VIVO Roadmapping):
- Ongoing disconnect between governance and development; little overlap in participation in these two spheres.
- Estimating effort / providing additional information about items in 2c could help leadership group.
- Sacha: where does VIVO Scholar fit in?
- Andrew: currently thought of as an approach to iii. (improved front end).
- Ralph: Scholar Discovery and UI are two totally different things; UI is optional.
- William: UI is probably of less universal interest than the API.
- Andrew: Scholar is addressing both iii. (front end) and iv. (APIs).
- Michel: What’s involved in the documentation item?
- Andrew: combing through the documentation and making it better; not complete rewrite.
- Documentation is a way for non-developers to get involved. Could have documentation sprints to bring in non-developers.
- Could also be useful to put out call to community about what they find lacking in documentation.
- Avoid answering repeated questions in mailing list / Slack.
- Ongoing disconnect between governance and development; little overlap in participation in these two spheres.
- Attempt under way to reschedule leadership meeting so that it doesn’t conflict with the development call.
- Estimating effort / providing additional information about items in 2c could help leadership group.
- Sacha: where does VIVO Scholar fit in?
- Michel: What’s involved in the documentation item?
- Next sprint in three weeks: get branch into master. Also overdue for 1.12 release. Primary feature of release will likely be i18n work.
- https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/i18n+Update+list+to+be+merged+to+master
- https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/VIVO-1905 through https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/VIVO-1908 should be moved forward as soon as possible.
- 1905 is in review.
- Data ingest task force
- Ralph: wiki landing page coming in the next day or so.
- Notes from Slack are a good starting point for populating the wiki.
- My goal is to come up with one good way of automating data entry with some sanity checking, using a technology that many people do or can understand, which we can support.
- Michel: First part of effort should be documentation; compile recipes for how people can ingest from a variety of technologies.
- Possibility of using simple, tabular database ahead of triplification.
- Ralph: if people can get their data into our simple table format, we can turn it into triples.
- William: Are there proposals for more generalized approaches?
- Ralph: want to make sure that whatever gets produced doesn’t feel heavy and is something that the person starting out can easily use.
- Andrew: common pattern to normalize data into database tables that reflect VIVO entities. Would be good to compare those tables and get to a “supported” set of database schemas for the staging area.
- Have supported tooling for these schemas
- William: another database schema is another barrier to entry.
- Brian: My priorities for data ingest would be built-in tools to build a VIVO from publicly-available data sources (ORCID, PubMed, CrossRef, etc.) before worrying about simplifying the process of transforming your own institutional data.
- William: this is a tall order; Symplectic Elements already does a lot of this.
- Rachid: not everyone can afford Elements.
- Elements Harvester is open source (the harvester from Elements to VIVO)
- Ralph: wiki landing page coming in the next day or so.
William’s thoughts on integrating Scholar into existing indexing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yZk8MkeygfzWjjr0lUkLRx-i-OOi1mw0c2QQKkjt1g4/edit
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