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)

• 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
• 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.

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

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.

• * http://www.vivoweb.org/blog/2011/05/2011-vivo-implementation-fest *