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| Question | Answer |
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| Where | Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 |
| Schedule | Monday 8:45 AM Morning coffee, Mann Room 160 Monday 9-10 AM Welcoming remarks and lightning talks proposing project ideas in Mann 160, followed by initial group formation. See http://goo.gl/pLsJeM for a document with proposed topics/teams. Monday 10:00 AM coffee break, Mann 160 Monday 12:00 PM touching base in Mann 160 before lunch break Monday 1:00 - 5:00 group work in Mann 160 and on Mann 2nd floor Bissett Space, Admin Conference room, and ITS offices |
| When | Monday morning, October 13 through noon Wednesday, October 15, 2014, with an optional winery tour on Sunday afternoon, October 12 Note that Monday is Columbus Day – often the height of the fall foliage season |
| 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 | No registration fee, but you pay your travel, hotel, and meals. We provide space, our local developers, and light refreshments |
| 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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Logistics including hotel, parking, and restaurant information
Proposed Topics
Additional topics and ideas are being collected in this document: http://goo.gl/pLsJeM. Fell free to add an idea or proposal.
| 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 |
| Consuming data from VIVO | 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 |
| New visualizations for VIVO |  | Use D3 or other JavaScript library to create visualizations on the VIVO profile page, or on related pages. Combine the power of JavaScript with VIVO's APIs. |
| Deep dive into the core code | Jim Blake | Explore the structure of VIVO internals. Follow the flow of data and authorization. Find the key points for deep-level customization. Discuss potential improvements that can be included in future releases. |
| Wiki improvements | Paul and Layne | Reorganizing and consolidating |