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Announcements
Ontology Working Group: next call is Wednesday, March 5 at 2PM EST
Apps and Tools Working Group: next call is Tuesday, March 4 at 1PM EST
Upcoming Events
DuraSpace Sponsor Summit: March 11-12 in Washington DC
VIVO Project Sponsors that plan to attend in person or remotely should contact Kathryn by email if you have questions
People who are attending (in person?) -- Paul Albert, Mike Conlon, Dean Krafft, Julia Trimmer, Alex Viggio
2014 VIVO Implementation Fest: Wednesday & Thursday, March 19-20, at Duke University in Durham, NC
Draft schedule is online for review and comment
Hotel block of rooms and advantageous rate of $101 times out on Friday, February 28
Please “register” by completing the online survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1x3vj1JzKIJLsaWAo48zfVmIYIOavjko424NZa7bbR7E/viewform
More logistics information at http://vivoweb.org/blog/2014/02/2014-vivo-implementation-fest
2014 VIVO Hackathon: on Tuesday, March 18 preceding the IFest at Duke University – Chris Barnes and Ted Lawless are soliciting input on possible development projects. A wiki page has been created with resources and potential Hackathon projects at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Hackathon+2014
- Friday March 21 morning working sessions, 9 am to noon
- Paolo Mangiafico at Duke will be leading a Symplectic Elements user group meeting
- There will be a half-day working/training session on using Protégé 4.3 with the VIVO-ISF ontology
There will be a VIVO technical road map working session to describe potential work elements and explore options to support review, comments, and voting, either through JIRA or http://vivo.ideascale.com
- Jim Blake would very much like to get feedback about the road map and relative priorities, not just among new development tasks, but among development, documentation, and more examples
- Jim Blake would very much like to get feedback about the road map and relative priorities, not just among new development tasks, but among development, documentation, and more examples
CASRAI U.S. Summit on Wednesday, April 9 at the American Psychological Association headquarters in Washington, DC -- will be discussing alignment of VIVO ontology and CASRAI as well as the european standard, CERIF, and the new U.S. SciENCV reporting format
Other VIVO-related events? We plan to centralize VIVO event listings/calendars in one place soon, and will link to this here
Annual survey of VIVO sites?
See proposed project wiki page.
Updates
Brown (Ted)
Provost is introducing Brown’s VIVO to faculty chairs meeting today. Final steps for public launch.
Planning final data migration from existing research profile system that should take place next week so all current data is migrated over prior to releasing it to faculty for editing on an opt-in model to capture additional data
Updating Vagrant install for iFest
Both Steven and Ted will be at the i-Fest
Colorado (Alex)
No major VIVO updates
helping with IFest planning
Some queries from new group at CU about tracking equipment who would like it to end up in VIVO
a question of where to enter and edit that data, since the public VIVO is read-only at CU
Don -- would it help to see what LASP is doing?
Cornell (Jon, Brian, Jim, Tim, et al)
The RDF that we publish as linked open data in 1.6 needs correction, which will motivate us to go ahead with 1.6.1, hopefully before the Hackathon
This will affect the VIVO Vagrant instance for the Hackathon
Joe McEnerney is doing work to update our whole infrastructure for importing from the Activity Insight faculty reporting tool
Duke (Sheri and Richard)
Focus on VIVO go-live for School of Arts & Sciences in early March
adding additional meta-data related to geo-focus to indicate whether related to teaching, research, or other activities
Florida (Chris)
Working on more automated ingests for Grants.
Github site for Mike’s Python shared work. http://mconlon17.github.io/
Planning for Hackathon
Updated the CHANGELOG for the Harvester on github to reflect 1.5 release. created 1.5 release tag. Ted and Chris now have commit access to Harvester repo, and will work with Stephen to help transfer maintainer responsibility.
Would love to have additional help from the community using the Harvester, including the SEAD project (Isuru)
LASP (Don)
integrating dcat and vivo stack ontologies to disseminate dataset information via web. This will replace: http://lasp.colorado.edu/lisird/ with dynamic data fed from VIVO. Visual prototype complete. Planned go live perhaps in April-May. This will lead to LASP having a public SPARQL endpoint
users in solar science community around the world, as an input for many different modeling projects for climate change and other domains
Question: is there any “plug & play” Google Analytics-like web analytics solution for SPARQL endpoints? Might still be hard to interpret how the data are really being used
Question: do DOIs help with tracking use of data sets? raises questions of maintaining the DOIs with subsequent versions, and need to have a landing page for each DOI (perhaps another use for VIVO like Deep Carbon project)
The W3C Dataset ontology initiative led by Michel Dumontier of Stanford is looking to extend DCAT to support representing multiple versions -- talk to Melissa at IFest
Don and Mik will attend hackathon. Don will attend full Ifest.
Memorial (Max)
No major updates this week
Scripps (Michaeleen)
no update; would find a survey of different sites’ production environments useful
Stony Brook (Tammy)
no update this week
UCLA (David)
Reported through a call with Cornell that they will be exploring the web service feature of 1.6, using SPARQL update for real-time updates
Starting to implement some of the modules for Opus, more data modeling, and prototyping. The back-end database will be MS SQL Server, the UCLA department standard; the main language will be Java using Spring Data JPA API for data access, abstracted from the back-end data store -- anything JDBC, RDF, no-relational databases, etc. -- while a consistent API for the application
may or more likely may not use the Spring Data RDF
newer technology -- maybe post a 101 link or two here
hopes to attend the I-Fest
UCSF (Eric) -- couldn’t attend call but is booked to be at IFest
Virginia Tech (Keith)
Waiting for some licenses to support VIVO project
hopes to attend IFest
Notable list traffic
Queued: Problem with linked data from 1.6 (identified by UPenn) (see Cornell update above)
Resolved: (Weill) Trouble starting Tomcat after upgrade to VIVO 1.6
Demo Replay Available here: http://youtu.be/sA77759ESzE
Mike Conlon has prepared a python program that generates NIH Biosketches using the underlying UF VIVOTools python lib (on github) and UF SPARQL endpoint.
Resolved: vivo with the bitnami tomcat stack working - 500 error on rdf ingest
Updated the CHANGELOG for the Harvester on github to reflect 1.5 release. created 1.5 release tag.
(Chris and Ted’s excellent adventure) Chris Barnes and Ted Lawless will be foster Maintainers of Harvester. Stephen Williams will provide guidance/tasks to Chris and Ted on next steps to get a 1.6 release.
Resolved: Using fuseki with VIVO 1.6 -- a question of the correct version of Java
Question about Fuseki
there’s a package that John Fereira put together that’s available through a Dropbox link that makes it easy to set up and avoid some of the connection timeout issues
could that code be posted to Github? Jon will ask John Fereira if he’s willing to do that
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Setting+up+a+VIVO+SPARQL+Endpoint -- includes a link to the package John Fereira put together
Eric Meeks will be at the IFest and the Hackathon -- would be great to have a session about OpenSocial Gadgets and the ORNG community, including Boston University
See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads
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