Friday January 19, 2018, 2 PM EST
Attendees
Steering Group Members
Dean B. Krafft, Julia Trimmer, Andi Ogier, Lauren Gala, Eric Meeks, Alex Viggio, Dong Joon (DJ) Lee, Mark Newton, Paul Albert
= note taker
Ex officio
Mike Conlon , debra hanken kurtz, Andrew Woods
Regrets
Mark Fallu, Bart Ragon
Location
Agenda
Item | Time | Facilitator | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Review agenda | 2 min | All | |
2 | Updates | 5 min | All | New Memberships news! |
3 | ResearchGraph | 15 min | Erin/Mike | Hosted Service opportunity! Slides and proposal attached here |
4 | Harvester Project | 10 | Dean/Debra/Mike/Andrew | Grant opportunity and developer community engagement! |
5 | NC Meeting | 10 | Julia | |
6 | Budget Planning | 15 | Debra/Mike/Val | |
7 | Slack | 0.1 | Paul |
Notes
- Membership news
- Sigma, the research consortium from Spain, has joined as a gold member. They are a national consortium similar to Cineca (based in Italy). We have U. of Grenada and [a Madrid university] are adoption sites, and are so listed in the Registry
- Developer meeting on the 11th
- 2018-01-11 - VIVO Developer Meeting
- We put together a Slack channel - vivo-project. Here's how you register: https://goo.gl/forms/oKpGQkHBOi8RYf992
- Maybe it's worth having a private channel for Steering.
- We've discussed how we can move forward in Graham's absence.
- Next call will be Tuesday at 11am.
- Seems like there's a lot of interest in development processes, specifically not having there be a single person whose job is to weigh in on code contributions.
- I want to see that the priorities which Mike defined (based on feedback from the community) are aligned with the developers'.
- There is a strong interest in getting the 1.10 / 2.0 release out sooner rather than latter.
- Mike: the Project almost destroyed itself in 2013, because there were a lot of changes to the ontology but no benefits to the user. My preference would be to get some more feature upgrades in there. I think calling it 2.0 without new features is fatal.
- 2018-01-11 - VIVO Developer Meeting
- ResearchGraph collaboration (Erin Tripp)
- Mike and I have been working on ResearchGraph. Goal: develop a repeatable process that significantly reduces the effort of mapping and loading data into VIVO.
- Wants to provide seed data to produce a fully populated VIVO.
- Proposing a Feb-April pilot. No memoranda of understanding signed yet. Wants to have something to present at March Berlin conference.
- Goals, among others:
- set up a turnkey VIVO, reducing effort of new implementers
- augment existing VIVO
- Outcomes
- A formal service definition
- Technical pipeline and deployment model
- Cost model for people would like to use this service
- A recommendation re: go to market decision
- Full proposal
- Executive summary
- Slides
- Eric: I think there is a market for sites that want a simple profile system, because they're coming to us at UCSF.
- Alex: Is it okay to share beyond this group? Erin: I have a special verison that leaves off the FTEs.
- Does ResearchGraph have a roadmap? Erin: I can follow up on this.
- Harvester
- Tom Cramer has talked with Mellon Foundation about a planning grant.
- Mike: goal have a plug-in modules for PubMed or licensed resources that allows for putting in a license. Tom has also talked about producing RDF and other formats including JSON. They're thinking quite broadly about collecting data from a variety of sources depending on the plugin library. For example, Dimensions is very interested in getting data from their system into VIVO. This thing would also have to have some sort of disambiguation capability.
- Two key functions: retrieval and parsing.
- Some people already met: Sandy, Rob, Tom, Mike.
Action Items