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Announcements
Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is Tuesday, July 22 at 1pm EDT
Surprise agenda
Ontology Working Group: next call not yet scheduled due to vacations/travel
VIVO Conference: August 6-8 Austin, TX
Registration is open – registration increases to $550 on July 19th
Applications and Tools Contest entries due July 31 -- it has to be accessible via the Internet but is pretty open otherwise -- please submit!
Analytics
Would it be useful to collect some benchmarks on analytics from a number of VIVOs
could lead to addressing SEO
Cornell and Colorado are interested
Eric (UCSF) -- benchmarking is a good thing -- real SEO expert is Anirvan Chatterjee and a lot of his presentations are available on his profile page; also happy to discuss
Learned last year at the VIVO conference last year -- to get Google to like you, the amount of user-generated content improves the search rankings
they control the ranking
you can affect the SEO
Do the OpenSocial gadgets help? Believes so, plus indirectly encourages people to go in and make edits
the activity may also stimulate Google ranking
Job descriptions
should we set up an area of the wiki with sample job descriptions?
Mary (Emory) -- would be very helpful as look toward staffing a variety of roles
Updates
Weill Cornell
Virginia Tech (Keith) -- still focusing on doing manual entry to get some data to work with
Symplectic Elements final phase is a couple of months away
Will be looking at the RDF created as a model for data ingest
UCSF (Eric)
working on getting hosted Profiles instances up
still working on external co-authors -- hoping to have links to external authors live in a couple weeks
earlier stages -- trying to get more active collaboration into VIVO/Profiles through the OpenSocial path
pump.io -- can actively or passively follow people
e.g., follow everyone who’s a co-author of mine -- could feed in any arbitrary relationship and use that as a way to send out active messages or follow activities passively
whenever one of those people has activity, the ActivityStream server would put that information into the OpenSocial gadget on the colleagues’ profiles
“profile locally, but network globally”
the technologies are there but have to glue them all together
working with Nick Benik to put the conference social network app up on a server
UCLA
Texas A&M
RPI/Deep Carbon Observatory
Symplectic
Stony Brook (Tammy)
Swamped because are using structured data from two sides of the campus, so are being tapped for reporting -- OPPE, faculty scorecards, and interest in ORCID integration
Can now get that going with VIVO 1.7 -- do you just have to put in your credentials to connect to the sandbox, or is there more to do? Or could we as a University automatically and set up ORCID iDs
if you have credentials, you’re already an ORCID partner
setting up iDs in batch is not accomplished through VIVO -- but VIVO can be used for the individuals to validate them and make them visible from ORCID
Don (CU Boulder) -- ORCID does have an API for batch iD created and documentation and examples; CU just registered 3,300 faculty and 20% have already been claimed; will be added to the HR database and will bring into Symplectic Elements
don’t need to be an ORCID partner to do this -- as a University, can just sign up and get credentials
hoping that Elements can at some point pull in the iDs in bulk
Smithsonian (Alvin)
Also interested in using ORCID -- has been working with the API a bit
Still experimenting in getting data into VIVO in bulk -- have RDF graph and SPARQL questions rather than VIVO-specific questions -- it’s pretty different from row and column database
Chris -- the SPARQL book from O’Reilly is useful
Alvin -- taking a course from LibraryJuice Academy on SPARQL -- have one on RDF, too. More info: http://www.libraryjuiceacademy.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=84
Scripps (Michaeleen) - no update
Memorial (Max and Lisa)
Making progress -- and no ice on the roads, but icebergs coming down from the Arctic -- having days of 28 Celsius, with a cool breeze in the evening
Continuing toward the re-release of Yaffle based on the new ontology; working on the Drupal VIVO integration (done by Miles Worthington) using the API, so the content will be both ingested and managed within Drupal but written to VIVO
this will be available for others to use, as will the Knowledge Mobilization ontology
has requested the the Ontology Team review the Knowledge Mobilization ontology
having issues importing the ontology in VIVO 1.6.3
Max will work with Miles Worthington to match up the Drupal entities to the VIVO classes
IFPRI
Fundaçao Getulio Vargas
Florida (Chris)
In the process of upgrading to 1.6 and that’s the big focus now
have finished the major focus of ingesting grants, publications, and people and are modifying the SPARQL constructs to create the RDF in the new ontology
Another big project in Health Sciences Center to collect faculty CVs using RedCap and correcting educational background and adding missing pubs from PubMed, as well as pictures -- then all of that will be brought into VIVO
Emory (Mary and Daniel)
Currently in the same position as last update -- working through the XSLTs to do the mapping between Symplectic and VIVO -- have most of what we originally envisioned importing and in the next week or so hope to do the initial mass integration
Had been advised to reach out to the current maintainer of the Harvester -- who is John Fereira
no recent commits -- is work happening?
yes -- John is preparing an ingest workshop for the Conference
Mary -- also developing an alpha state of VIVO using Symplectic data to facilitate feedback
also interest in developing a widget to use on departmental websites -- as Duke has done
DuraSpace (Layne)
working on planning and looking forward to meeting more people in person at the Conference
Duke
Cornell (Tim, Jim, Jon)
working on upgrading VIVO Cornell to 1.7 -- have a few local classes in our 3-tier build
building the case for Elements support from Colleges
Colorado (Don)
Knee-deep in ORCID integration after registering 3300 faculty earlier this week
Do the faculty go to ORCID to claim? Yes -- sent out a batch email giving them instructions and showing them examples of what to expect
Did not set up the University for trusted party access, just listed as an affiliation
When they claim, can poll ORCID for updates on who has claimed
Had to work with campus IT to make sure that emails from ORCID won’t be seen as spam
A fair amount of opt-out -- 6 people immediately de-activated their iD
At the end of 10 days they will send out another email indicating there’s an unclaimed record; if no response, some minimal information is made public
Should be able to share some of the Java code to register and poll the ORCID site and update the campus Oracle database
Have 1.6 on target for upgrading via the Harvester -- changes to the XSLT and looking forward to the Conference
After have upgraded VIVO to 1.6 will look at ingesting into VIVO
Have an open job -- (would be happy to share that with competitors after the job is filled)
Brown (Steve)
No major changes -- publication editor is in production and being used successfully without instruction; a public email will go out at least to medical faculty this week so expect more activity then
Glad to hear about ORCID progress -- hoping to implement
When Brown was hiring, re-used a job description so hope can share
Notable List Traffic
See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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