New meeting time
Please note the new recurring meeting time. 11 AM US eastern time.
July 20, 2018, 11 AM US Eastern Time
Attendees
LG and SG members:
Paul Albert, Ann Beynon, Tom Cramer, Mike Conlon, Anna Guillaumet, Doug Hahn, Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik, Muhammed Javed, DJ Lee, Jean Rainwater, Hannah Sommers, Julia Trimmer, Terrie Wheeler
Duraspace:
Erin Tripp, Andrew Woods
Regrets:
Robert Cartolano, Federico Ferrario, Mark Newton, Ginny Pannabecker, Alex Viggio, Joe Zucca.
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Agenda
- Review agenda: Mike, 5 minutes
- Welcome new and returning Leadership Group members: Christian Hauschke, Violeta Ilik, Hannah Sommers and Alex Viggio: Mike, 5 minutes
- Developing a Roadmap. Mike, round-table discussion. 25 minutes.
- Proposal for choosing five Steering Group members: Mike, 5 minutes
- Grant opportunities: Terrie Wheeler, 15 minutes. See VIVO Grant Funding Opportunities
- Future agenda items: All, 5 minutes
Notes
- Mike chaired the meeting at Julia's request
- Welcome to new and returning Leadership Group members.
- Christian - newly elected community rep, hosting a German national VIVO workshop on Sept. 17 and 18
- Violeta - newly elected community rep
- Alex - reelected community rep
- Hannah - reelected bronze rep
- Technical initiatives doc
- Mike: We've removed a couple that have already been done. The first 3 are underway via the Task Force process.
- Javed: ontology improvement task force - we worked to bring together ontologies into a single file. We can finally point at it.
- Mike: We've added another 35 to do items, one of which is accessible themes. I get one inquiry per month asking about VIVO's accessibility.
- Spreadsheet: column for impact and effort, which would be a score from 1-10. Another column is component.
- Mike: Julia suggested a first scoring should be done by a small group, but I'm happy that anyone could do that.
- Paul: I care about Product Evolution efforts including performant index and refined interface.
- Javed: I'm noticing some initiatives that are short-term and others that are more long-term.
- Jean: the process sounds fine.
- Hannah: I think we should note dependencies.
- DJ: process looks good.
- Christian: I can add some info and will provide info.
- Ann: it's important to get wider input
- Anna: Happy to see the process
- Mike/Terrie: if we're going to address grant funding, we would need to look to how these features could be incorporated into core.
- Mike to send out a request for scoring. There will then be a scoring and reconciliation process among the scorers
- Procedure for Steering Group members
- Mike: thanks for everyone voting. We had votes from all but one people eligible to vote. Nice job, all.
- The nominations for Steering Group comes from the Leadership group. We will be opening up nominations this afternoon. Nominations will be open for 7 days.
- Grant funding
- Violeta: I need access to the folder but that probably needs to be fixed at the top level.
- Mike: JenaConnectifier and ReCiter could be included in VIVO Combine.
- Mike: we're of course interested in European grant opportunities.
- Christian: we had some problems finding programs that are applicable to both US and European countries. You don't exactly qualify as a developing country.
- Mike: this will always be a problem. It's difficult to have international participation in grants unless it's specifically called for.... Sometimes funders including foundations are more amenable to negotiation.
- Erin: That has been my experience working with the Mellon Foundation.
- Violeta: sometimes you can ask personal contacts, "How does this idea sound?"
- Erin: I have contacts at IMLS. That might be appropriate.
- Tom: Mellon is very much into open science. Sloan is more into community and the arts, and they may be more of a stretch. Same with IMLS.
- Violeta: I have some contacts at Sloan.
- Mike: we should remember that this is potential funding for people at your institution. Securing funding can help change the conversation at the institution.
- Tom: How does this Grants sheet overlap with the technical initiatives and product evolution group, if at all? (It seems to me that Product Evolution is a grantable activity)
- Tom: is everyone who can/should comment on this doc within Leaders? I wonder about if and when it might be surfaced to others in the VIVO community not on this call
With Mellon and Sloan, yes.... Mike: I'm fine with opening it for editing. Christian: the Danish people are very successful with funding. I would consider posting it to everyone. Terrie: I think it would be helpful if we targeted specific people in the organization.
- Mike: if you want to see something in the VIVO Updates, send me something by Saturday.
- Mike: any future items you would like to see?
- Violeta: VIVO marketing
- Erin: ResearchGraph
- Tom: when will there be a proposal for the next conference? Mike: we're expecting a proposal on August 6. Tom: we were also thinking about a research intelligence conference in North America. Mike: yes, I think that might be worth exploring. Tom: there's an opportunity to combine with the Pure user group.