Updates
VIVO Freeze day: Thursday, June 30, 2011
VIVO 1.3 Expected release date: July 15th, 2011
- Attending institution updates
- main institutions
- Current features in development
- mini-grants
- Digital Vita docs discussions
- update on XSPARQL as a way to map RDF to XML without intermediate Java objects
- alternatives considered, including Semantic Services (https://semanticservice.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/semanticservice)
- Digital Vita docs discussions
- main institutions
- U. Rochester - intellectual property
Issue References
- http://issues.library.cornell.edu/browse/VIVOFEED-937 (ordering of Publications )
- http://issues.library.cornell.edu/browse/NIHVIVO-2715 (date time interval displays GMT)
Concerns / Requests
- After the Code freeze date what do mini-grant projects do about committing code.
- Will there be a release after July 15th and before the end of august?
- Changing default name-space.
Meeting Minutes
Updates
Cornell
- Search (Not directly in vivo 1.3 )
- improves relevance ranking
- is being merged in.
- indexing time down
- uses semenatic features
- improves relevance ranking
- Menu page editing
- Outside logins will have accounts created.
- Dealing without user accounts.
- for 1.4 will have authentication "payoffs".
- named graphs have been removed due to performance issues.
UF
- gearing up for a Harvester 1.2 release
- tiered scoring
- The ability to score on progressively smaller datasets
- Performance benefits expected.
- More descriptive and organized scripts.
- tiered scoring
Mini-grant
- Richard Outten found an issue with images
- addressing this issue is helpful to the group as a whole.
- Digital Vita
- In one request get everything about a profile.
- translating RDF ontology into XML
- added "include=all" to get all related information
- done with a series of sparql queries.
- named under WEB-INF/rich-export
- Looking into XSPARQL
- In one request get everything about a profile.
Presentation on XSPARQL
- Based on XQUERY and SPARQL
- nesting is possible.
- Handles repeated values.
- Optimization of queries has yet to be attempted.
- works with a schema.
- May be added to conference as a way of getting info from vivo.
Corporate authors:
- done through an authorship.
- use foaf:group which is a subclass of foaf:Agent
U. Rochester
- extending ontology to include intellectual property.
- Grant not yet awarded.
- PI is Scott Steel
- Positive feedback about grant pointing toward acceptance.
- Next week will have a meeting concerning first steps.
A Wiki page should be created centering on the ways to get information out of a VIVO.
Re-using VIVO data in other websites
Concerns / Requests:
- significance of "code freeze"
- Maintenance branch is created
- Continue to commit to trunk as usual
- other releases
- Drupal search released at the end of July.
- The conference should have checkouts from trunk as needed.
- Changing the default name-space is not suggested
- It can cause unpredictable errors.
Implementation fest nest week.