May 13, 2016, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Steering Group Members

 Paul Albert ,  Eric Meeks, Robert H. McDonald, Alex Viggio

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 Andi Ogier, Julia Trimmer, Dean B. Krafft, , debra hanken kurtz, Melissa Haendel,  Kristi Holmes, Bart Ragon,

Location

Webex Meeting Link

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates
   1. Mike and Graham will be at Open Repositories with a poster on OpenVIVO – Dublin, June 13-16.  Mike will be at Symplectic meeting in Manchester, UK, June 17-18.
   2. Mike will be at ALA, Orlando, June 25 on a panel, speaking about OpenVIVO.
   3. Julia, Alex and Debra will be attending the Community Leadership Summit in Austin, May 14-15.  http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/
2. Merger with Lyrasis has been called off
   1. There will be no merger. There will be coordinated communication Monday in a timed roll out.
3. Membership
   1. The VIVO project lost money last year. Last year, Duraspace made up for this by borrowing from another project. That needs to be repaid. 
   2. VIVO has a long sales cycle. Not important if they have a VIVO up and running. Only important that they want to support the project. We're going to have to redouble efforts to identify members who can support the project. This will be the primary topic at the Leadership group.
   3. The challenge is that we still don't have contacts at the institutions that are using VIVO. It has been a struggle to get info about those contacts. Duraspace has library contacts at many of those institutions, but as you know, those are not the contacts you need. We have requested to the leadership group to fill in the contacts but we haven't had much luck with that. Individual appeals have not been successful either. We now must rely on making a community-wide plea. 
   4. Listservs? Julia had a conversation with Valerie about seeing if Valerie and someone else on the VIVO staff could mine them to get contact names associated with institutions. Google Groups has a way to export people.
   5. Expect to hear a lot more about this.
   6. Mike will get access to submissions to the VIVO conference to mine it for potential contacts
4. Leadership agenda
   1. Merger news
   2. Membership
5. User group follow up
   1. Spent a lot of time talking about the product; not so much membership. This is, of course, somewhat putting the cart before the horse.
   2. We need to document how ontology development will work. Ted Lawless had a great idea to trial the process by adding ISNI to the ontology. Right now, we don't know how a single statement, such as ISNI, would wind its way through the process.
   3. The eagle-I people have a well-documented process to create the VIVO-ISF in a release. VIVO does not have that. When we went to make 1.6, Brian Lowe et al. abstracted VIVO by hand. This is not something we could do or want to do. We'll look at the eagle-I process and try to leverage it in some way.
   4. We have two releases which should be further planned. 1.9 should come out before the conference. 1.10 after that. Mike will call a meeting of the roadmap group.
   5. Another big idea was VIVO labs. The goal would be to generate some speculative development which could turn into real development.
   6. We need to see that the VIVO Labs process works in practice.
   7. Additional topics need some discussion: expert finding (can Melbourne's work be donated back to VIVO?), central services (cross-site search by Dave Eichmann), VIVO Futures.

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