July 31, 2015, 1 PM EST

Attendees

Steering Group Members

Paul Albert, Melissa Haendel, Kristi Holmes, Dean B. Krafft, Robert H. McDonald , Andi Ogier,  Julia Trimmer, Alex Viggio

= note taker

Ex officio

debra hanken kurtz , Jonathan Markow, Mike Conlon

Regrets

Jon Corson-Rikert

Dial-In Number:  

(209) 647-1600, Participant code: 117433#

Agenda

Notes

1. Updates
   1. Task force Updates
      1. Contributed Software task force has finished their work and submitted a report.
      2. Asset Inventory has completed their work and submitted a report
      3. Implementation Documentation is finishing their work.  They plan to move their new documentation to the public wiki next week
      4. Telling VIVO Stories Task Force continues to produce vignettes of VIVO usage.  CU-Boulder story appeared this week.  Memorial University story and USDA story are awaiting institutional approval.
      5. VIVO in a Networked EcoSystem continues to meet
   2. Joint meeting of Leadership and Steering at the Conference, Wednesday August 12, 1-5 PM.  Preliminary agenda
      1. Introductions
      2. Progress Report including Budget Update
         
      3. Roadmap discussion
   3. MC Dagstuhl follow-up. See trip report.  

1. 1. 1. VIVO at home institutions.  Several participants expressed interest in having VIVO at their home institutions and sent emails beginning inquiry.  In particular, one received negative feedback from the on-going evaluation at his university.
      2. VIVO and OJS.  Conlon and Schmecher discussed a joint pilot project that would enable representation of OJS journal contents in VIVO data format as RDF for indexing.  Schmecher will add an “issue hook” that will allow a remote service to be notified when a new issue appears.  Conlon will develop the remote service, which then calls existing OJS services to get the issue contents and render in VIVO format.  Subsequent work, potentially grant funded, could develop and indexing service and/or contribute RDF to VIVO search.
      3. VIVO and proofing.  Conlon and Martone discussed opportunities for identity management in eScience – identifying people (beyond the self-identification of ORCID), datasets (including FAIR certification), and repositories, including FAIR certification.
      4. VIVO and German repository of science.  Conlon and Weichselgartner discussed the German national science repositories and opportunities for the creation of VIVO data at the national level in Germany.
      5. VIVO and SciELO.  Conlon, Garcia Castro and Koller discussed SciELO and the opportunities to represent scholarship in South America using VIVO at the continental level.
      6. Dspace and Research Objects.  Several participants expressed interest in the ability to store research objects (bundles of RDF statements) in open source repositiory software such as Dspace.  Conlon will follow up with Donahue regarding opportunities.
      7. Dspace and Psychology.  Weichselgartner asked about discipline groups such as Psychology surrounding Dspace.  Conlon will follow up to learn more.
   2. MC opportunity with SHARE Notify for project to develop a SHARE/VIVO connector.   1) Import from SHARE, 2) Demo at a VIVO site, 3) Sites might provide VIVO Data to SHARE.  SHARE is interested in funding a small grant to Duraspace to create the connector.
   3. RoadMap task force will meet next week
   4. Reminder – Graham Triggs will finish his work with Symplectic and begin with VIVO as the Tech Lead by September 21.  He will be at the conference.  In the interim, he is not available to participate in VIVO work.
   5. Elections for two additional members of the Steering Group opened Wednesday, July 29 and will remain open through Friday August 7.

Notes

Introductions

• Those present introduced themselves for the benefit of our new Steering members

Issue for Leadership Group

• We need to better understand and manage Leadership group representation re membership and in-kind contributions
• We should let Leadership know that we are addressing this issue
• Item will be on the Leadership group agenda

Agenda for Leadership Group Mtg

• Let's ask Leaders to participate in Membership recruiting, e.g., volunteer to reach out to one or more prospects, etc.
• Progress report:  We've been responsive to requests from Leadership group expressed at last meeting.  Will be a positive report!
• Clarification:  The mtg is a joint meeting of Leadership and Steering

Agendas for Steering Group:

• Mike will make a call for agenda items, suggests that at start of meeting we review and possibly modify topics, order, etc.
• Maybe plan to have some meetings be extended discussions
• Maybe spawn sub groups to address topics that need more time

Conference:

• We need to identify Conference and Program chairs for 2016
• Special sessions
  • "VIVO Around the World" - community building session for international contributors
• Process improvement suggestions for conference planning
  • Extend timeline
  • Define roles better
  • Be more organized around fund-raising
  • Put together a larger conference planning committee; meet towards end of current conference
  • Try to announce new chairs at the end of this year's conference
• Will have a BOF on Friday at the conference regarding VIVO 2016

Attribution/Contribution discussion

• This was tabled until more time is available at a future meeting