Portland, OR
April 17-19
https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016 

April 17, 2016

Workshop – OpenRIF and VIVO

Organized by Melissa Handel.  Good crowd.  Good presentations.  Here's the VIVO presentation. https://figshare.com/articles/OpenRIF_and_VIVO/3180373

Met Steve van Tuyl from Oregon State

Workshop – Organizational Identifiers

Organized by CrossRef, ORCiD, THOR, DataCite

Big crowd

Why and how will we get organizational identifiers.  PIDapolooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10, 2015

Met Micah Altman, MIT http://micahaltman.com/

Met Stacey Konkiel, Altmetrics

Hacking the OpenVIVO Data

Well, a small group got together and shared some things about their work.  Simon Porter showed us an early version of his Twitter Bootstrap UI for VIVO – very impressive – lean, modern look, responsive interface, improved access to information.  Looking forward to seeing more about this.

April 18, 2016

Plenary Session

Cameron Neylon

Melissa Haendel working on phenotypes. Introduce http://openvivo.org from the podium.

Steven Pinker, Harvard – why we communicate badly

Caesar Hidalgo, MIT – data visualization

Christie Nicholson, Journalist – Communicating Science, Distilling your message.  She used a baseball situation as a test case – baseball is complex to the non-initiated.  How to describe what is happening.  Paul Groth started, followed by Kristi Holmes.  I gave it a try, using a bit of radio commentator flair, and focusing on the emotion (rivalry, tension, opportunity) in the situation.  I finished with a flourish "and this game is over!"  People responded enthusiastically.  The moment was captured in the cartoon graphic produced for the conference.  I spoke with the artists – who knew little about baseball, but were enthusiastic about my short adlib.

April 19, 2016

Poster session.  Presented OpenVIVO.  Here's the poster.  https://figshare.com/articles/OpenVIVO_A_VIVO_anyone_can_join/3175072