Development interest group

• Successful VIVO Conference
• Collecting input on proposed Development Priorities
  • Community input form (please complete, if you have not already)
  • Special topics meeting on Development Priorities: 2020-06-30 - VIVO Development IG
• Development focus on i18n (see below)
• VIVO Committers
  
  • Two committers have transitioned to "emeritus" status: Muhammad Javed, John Ferreira
  • Immediate potential for new committer(s) - stay tuned

Ontology interest group

• Has not met.  Principles working on conference.
• a first draft of AEON, the Academic Events Ontology, was presented at the conference.  
  • Registry here: http://ontology.tib.eu/aeon/
  • GitHub here: https://github.com/tibonto/aeon
  • Presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eqVFZSDMqkn0dPbDVH4Z4MwIzvshrg9IKa1eFmSJsdU/edit#slide=id.g88d26cc821_2_59
  • Mathias Brochhausen, conference keynote, has agreed to collaborate on AEON.
  • Additional collaborators welcome!

Membership and community engagement interest group

• Received low number of responses for the member forum so we will instead record an update to send to members and invite them to one-on-one calls to chat further
• Drafting a set of recommendations for future Leadership Group elections to increase community engagement

VIVO Scholar task force

The task force is pleased to announce VIVO Scholar 0.9.0-beta and Scholars Discovery 1.0.0-RC1. VIVO Scholar is an optional UI that can be installed with an existing VIVO site. The VIVO Scholar UI is easy to customize and provides additional faceted search features. Scholars Discovery is a middleware component that consumes VIVO data and makes it available in GraphQL, which provides an easy query interface for web developers  to re-use VIVO data.

• For more about VIVO Scholar, see the VIVO Scholar Task Force wiki page.
• The VIVO Scholar README and the Scholars Discovery README in GitHub provide details about how to install these components.
• William Welling from TAMU and Rob Nelson from Duke have been nominated to the Committers Group. 

Strategic communication task force

• The task force recently sent a draft of the Strategic Communication Plan to the Leadership Group to submit their comments before the end of June.
• We are working with LYRASIS on a modest update of the VIVO website and will be discussing a longer-term revision of the website as part of the DCSP updates.
• The task force will transition to the Communication and Marketing Interest Group starting July 1. 

Internationalization task force

The next i18n sprint will be on June 22 - July 3rd. The goal of the sprint is to position i18n branches to be merged into core. The sprint will focus on bug fixes, code reviews for outstanding tickets, and documentation.

• Sprint wiki page : https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/2020-06+-+i18n+Editing+Sprint
• Pre-sprint planning page : 2020-06-19 - i18n Editing pre-sprint meeting

i18n task force members gave several presentations at the recent online VIVO conference 2020:

• Recent Internationalization Developments in VIVO
• Software Ecosystem for VIVO's Continuous Development: i18n Development Use Case
• Chinese translation using VIVO v1.11 and Web of Science data

VIVO conference task force

• 261 registrants from 23 countries, both are all-time records for a VIVO event.  Previous registration record was 240 registrants for the second VIVO conference, 2011 in Washington DC.  See pie chart on slide 2 here:  https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12493139.v1
• Google Folder here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1twfmRLizReayBs8IsYi0-lH8tbJ-B09J
• Google Doc regarding experience and notes for future organizers here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1di3DZ0D4PHAFXKh_gthKvJXfEAWi-FB3-vCjaBkQtnE/edit#heading=h.bmj6xekwmp7h
• Mailing list of 215 registrants who agreed to recontact (GDPR) available in the conference folder.
• Notes to future organizers in the conference folder
• TIB is assembling DOI links of presentations and video at their AV site for permanent archive. 
• Survey of development priorities still open.  Reply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2N_fPvw0RSS3t-dPU6yP7o905SV_pWPCtnYPy2zLjLBX07w/viewform?usp=send_form
• Conference had net revenue of $3,000 through three financial sponsors – Clarivate, SIGMA, and Elsevier.
• Several new offers to collaborate on development.