Wednesday, May 24 at 11:00 EDT
LG members:
Bruce Herbert Christian Hauschke Sonja Schulze Brian Lowe L Bryan Cooper Fadwa Alshawaf Anna Guillaumet Washington Luís Ribeiro de Carvalho Segundo Terrie R. Wheeler Robert Cartolano
LYRASIS: Laurie Gemmill Arp Michele MennielliDragan Ivanovic
Regrets:
Agenda
Updated Agenda for May 2023 VIVO Leadership Group
Announcements (0 mins)
Eunis Conference. (June Conference in Spain). Anna will present overview of VIVO. Dragan will present on VIVO ontology mapping project.
Please share the VIVO Annual Report: https://vivo.lyrasis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AR-2022-VIVO.pdf. A Spanish language version is also available.
VIVO satellite event at Semantic Web in Libraries, http://swib.org/. Christian is proposing an ontologyfocused event.
The ORCID Certified Service Provider (CSP) Program and we invite your feedback on the proposed changes. Please follow this link (bit.ly/3GEyT8K) to read about, and comment on, the draft documents outlining the benefits of the CSP Program, and the industry best practice-based certification criteria for workflows pertaining to Research Information Systems.
Discussion (50 mins)
1. Transferring VIVO Copyright (Terrie, 10 mins)
• Cornell accepted latest suggestions. This version is at Lyrasis.
2. VIVO Community Finances (Terrie, 10 mins)
3. Discuss our fundamental strategy (Bruce, 50 mins however long it takes)
Note: I was hoping, as Christian and others have pointed out, that we only agree on the importance of this question and establish the right question to ask.)
• Sigma’s and Duke’s challenge
• Estimates of time and effort needed to complete major development milestones (Dragan).
“This is really hard to estimate, but I don't think it might be less than 6 developers' years (meaning 6
developers for one complete year). The problematic part is VIVO development requires semantic web knowledge and some other specific technologies knowledge, therefore it is not possible to easy enlarge the team with new software developers. It is really crucial that current VIVO committers are included in the process of refactoring, and their availability is questionable even if we got some funding. Anyway, it would be great to have some funding, I hope it might dramatically speed up the development.“
• The original vision of the VIVO community – supporting the semantic web (idealist)
• Institutions need a more sustainable, cheaper RIM/CRIS system.
• This would free up time to explore data analysis, visualizations and AI.
• Could we define an alternative architecture, something that is simpler for an institution to
implement, and data is fed to one graph database that creates the RDF and provides the SPARQL endpoint?
___________________________________________________________________________________________ Meeting via the normal Zoom link: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/9963190968
Minutes
Wednesday, May 24 at 11:00 EDT
