2013-07-31 ISF/VIVO Ontology Call

Updates

• Brown
• Florida
• Johns Hopkins
• Scripps (Michaeleen)
  • Continuing to work on Grants ingest from NIH Reporter
• Virginia Tech
• Weill Cornell
• others

Formalizing a ISF/VIVO Ontology Working Group

Representatives of each of the organizations sponsoring VIVO (see http://vivoweb.org/sponsorship) will be meeting on Wednesday afternoon, August 14, at the VIVO Conference for the first official VIVO Sponsors Meeting. One item on the agenda is to formalize a set of working groups, with the current and potential activities of this group and listserv providing one example.

Working groups will continue to be open to all and to encourage participation by individuals and organizations regardless of their sponsorship status.

With release 1.6, VIVO will be adopting a larger ontology derived from the VIVO and eagle-i ontologies and addressing broader needs in research representation including research resources and clinical expertise. The ontology will be promoted going forward as the Integrated Semantic Framework or ISF, but will continue to be managed by members of the VIVO community together with participants in the CTSAconnect project representing eagle-i and the biomedical research community more generally.

Your thoughts are very much appreciated, and feel free to add comments on a wiki discussion page for the ISF/VIVO Ontology Working Group even if you can't attend the meeting.