2014-05-08 Implementation and Development Call

Announcements

• Introducing Layne Johnson, VIVO Project Director

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 15 at noon EDT

• Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is May 13th at 1pm EDT

• April 29th call: Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO -- video will be on YouTube soon

• did his whole presentation with Emacs

• Had a call with David Wood yesterday about Callimachus

• he spoke at the VIVO conference last year

• Apps and Tools workshop at the conference. Looking for participants to do demos -- looking for the best ways to create, use, visualize VIVO data and would love to have additional authors and help

• VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)

• Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M will be there

• the organizers (including Violeta) are looking for another representative from the VIVO community

Upcoming Activities 

• First annual survey of VIVO sites

• The survey: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom 

• A presentation proposal has been submitted to the conference and in order to have time to compile and analyze the data, responses are requested by May 29 

• Next themed weekly call topic – May 22nd: Performance Part 2 or VIVO 1.7?

Site Updates

• Site updates during next week's call

Theme: End User Documentation

• Technical and Developer documentation versus End User documentation

• Types of end user documentation: wiki-based versus web application help files 

• Jim Blake's overview of current VIVO end user documentation on the wiki, with a few highlights such as managing documentation versioning for recent 1.5, 1.6, and the upcoming 1.7 release of VIVO

• Dr. Conlon will share his thoughts on improving end user documentation, with specific use cases at University of Florida in mind and how these might be shared with other institutions

• As always, we'll encourage attendee participation. Please bring up your end user documentation concerns and suggestions. We hope to hear from institutions that have rolled out VIVO. What questions came up from their end user communities that aren't addressed by the existing documentation. How could institutions best collaborate on documentation? 

  • Is there interest in an online VIVO end user wiki documentation edit-a-thon, inspired by Wikipedia's app – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon

  • GitHub being used by non-coders for local political campaigns and other collaborative writing projects

  • Google Docs

  • Are there examples from other projects that do documentation better?

Notable list traffic 

• VIVO 1.6.1 - emails missing in RDF export

• Exception during rdf upload

• implementation
• Harvester Diff Problem
• VIVO Harvester, Pubmed Sample Issue
• remove rdf data

• Google Summer Code

• Harvester Import Error
• inline images and video
• VIVO Vanilla Install
• Second VIVO on the Same Server
• SVN checkout issue on http://sourceforge.net/p/vivo/tools/code

See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads

Call-in Information