Portland, OR
April 17-19
https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016
April 17, 2016
Workshop – OpenRIF and VIVO
Organized by Melissa Handel. Good crowd. Good presentations. Here's the VIVO presentation. https://figshare.com/articles/OpenRIF_and_VIVO/3180373
Met Steve van Tuyl from Oregon State
Workshop – Organizational Identifiers
Organized by CrossRef, ORCiD, THOR, DataCite
Big crowd
Why and how will we get organizational identifiers. PIDapolooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10, 2015
Met Micah Altman, MIT http://micahaltman.com/
Met Stacey Konkiel, Altmetrics
Hacking the OpenVIVO Data
Well, a small group got together and shared some things about their work. Simon Porter showed us an early version of his Twitter Bootstrap UI for VIVO – very impressive – lean, modern look, responsive interface, improved access to information. Looking forward to seeing more about this.
April 18, 2016
Plenary Session
Cameron Neylon
Melissa Haendel working on phenotypes. Introduce http://openvivo.org from the podium.
Steven Pinker, Harvard – why we communicate badly
Caesar Hidalgo, MIT – data visualization
Christie Nicholson, Journalist – Communicating Science, Distilling your message. She used a baseball situation as a test case – baseball is complex to the non-initiated. How to describe what is happening. Paul Groth started, followed by Kristi Holmes. I gave it a try, using a bit of radio commentator flair, and focusing on the emotion (rivalry, tension, opportunity) in the situation. I finished with a flourish "and this game is over!" People responded enthusiastically. The moment was captured in the cartoon graphic produced for the conference. I spoke with the artists – who knew little about baseball, but were enthusiastic about my short adlib.
April 19, 2016
Poster session. Presented OpenVIVO. Here's the poster. https://figshare.com/articles/OpenVIVO_A_VIVO_anyone_can_join/3175072