2013-01-29 VIVO Search Strategy Meeting 2

Agenda

• Any updates
• Further definition of technical requirements
  
  • Where is our knowledge of Hadoop?
  • How applicable to the VIVO linked data index builder is the code for indexing RDF versions of MARC records?
• Further definition of business requirements – straw man proposals for discussion
  
  • Stage 1 – by VIVO conference mid-August 2013
    
    1. reproduce the current index and update the current vivosearch.org site
    2. establish a workable frequency of update – monthly or weekly at most
    3. then expand 5-10 more institutions (Melbourne, Colorado, Duke, Brown, Eindhoven or VU Amsterdam, Cambridge might be candidates)
  • Stage 2 – for October, 2013 CTSA PI meetings
    
    1. work with ~5 CTSAs to demonstrate an index including only designated CTSA investigators
       
       1. UF, Weill Cornell, Washington University, Indiana, Harvard
    2. work with CTSA researcher networking group 
  • Stage 3 – by the end of 2013
    
    1. work with Colorado to help them set up an independent Colorado search across Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Denver campuses
    2. prepare more detailed ongoing business plan as part of marketing campaign for 2014
• Other topics