Fall, 2014 Hackathon
Question | Answer |
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Where | Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 |
When | October 13-14-15, 2014 (Columbus Day plus the Tuesday and Wednesday of that week |
Who | Anyone interested in participating and hopefully contributing to the development, documentation, or testing of VIVO software, the VIVO-ISF ontology, or apps & tools to produce, visualize, or leverage VIVO data |
Cost | You pay your travel, hotel, and meals. We provide space, our local developers, refreshments - no registration fee |
Goals | Learning, training, gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas, writing documentation, improving the ontology, having fun and encouraging collaborative patterns of work related to VIVO that can continue between such events |
Extras | If you arrive by noon(ish) Sunday, we are planning a Finger Lakes Winery excursion for the afternoon, including options for dinner |
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Hackathon October 2014 Logistics
Proposed Topic
Proposed Topic | Resource Person(s) | Comments |
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VIVO-ISF Ontology | Melissa Haendel | Work with the lead of the Ontology Working Group to improve and extend the ontology to be compatible with the HCLS/W3C Dataset Description ontology and work on integrating local extensions that belong in the VIOV-ISF ontology; learn how to use Protégé and other ontology editing and management tools |
VIVO Harvester | John Fereira | Learn to use the Harvester and help with sample configurations or data, connecting to Karma, extending the types of RDF output it supports, testing, and documentation |
VIVO REST API | Jim Blake | Learn how to add, modify, or improve a new VIVO feature and how the application code is structured. Learn more about VIVO configuration, debugging, and the developer tools Jim has been adding to VIVO |
Consuming data from the REST API | Ted Lawless | How do you deliver VIVO data to apps written by people who don't know LOD or SPARQL? |
Adding a new vocabulary service to VIVO | Huda Khan | VIVO can be configured to link to external vocabulary services that meet certain criteria – learn how to link to a new service such as the APA Thesaurus, and/or how to implement a vocabulary service that can serve VIVO or other applications |
Customizing VIVO | Tim Worrall | Learn how to modify a VIVO list view, how to add a map to the VIVO homepage, and other techniques |