Date

Call-in Information

Time: 10:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York), 4:00 pm Central European Summer Time

To join the online meeting:

Calendar invitation - ICS file

Slack

Attendees

(star)  Indicating note-taker

  1. Dragan Ivanovic (star)  
  2. Charlott Aust
  3. Georgy Litvinov  
  4. Brian Lowe 
  5. Christian Hauschke
  6. Bridget Almas 
  7. Amin Keshavarzi 
  8. Ivan Mrsulja 
  9. Benjamin Kampe 
  10. Folke Meyer 

Agenda

Notes  

Community Questions

Charlott: Is it possible to hide the "Edit this individual" link (next to Admin Panel in the profiles) for specific roles like for e. g. editors ?

Charlott explained the requirement, Georgy think we have a permission for that. 

Charlott to try to remove line 11 into this file - https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro/blob/main/home/src/main/resources/rdf/accessControl/firsttime/simple_permissions_editor.n3


Amin: two search boxes on the homepage (navbar and in the middle)

Amin confirmed that the solution recommended by Brian works. It should be added to the documentation. 

 

New issues

Execute SPARQL CONSTRUCT page in Ingest Tools - https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro/pull/517 

Folke should test this, but there is an issue with SearchEngineSmokeTest failing. Georgy confirmed that rebasing Brian branch on top of the main branch should resolve the issue. Brian will rebase his branch, Folke will try to test.  


Spanish labels - https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/issues/4151 

Dragan created a PR for addressing this request - https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/pull/4153 

Brian will review the PR.


Capability map person detail - https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/issues/4152 

Brian thinks this is not a blocker for VIVO 1.16.0 release, although it would be nice to resolve this bug.


Docker action for vivo-es - https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/issues/4154 

Dragan raised a concern about missing a github action for depositing Docker images for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch to the Docker hub, which he assigned to Milos for resolution.


ElasticSearch and VIVO

Christian asked whether ElasticSearch integration might be a solution for the BrCris team. Dragan explained that the BrCris team is using VIVO as storage while building a new UI that communicates with Elasticsearch with a custom created index structure for their own UI. He noted that while this might simplify their technology stack by potentially reducing the need for Solr, it would not completely replace the need for their Elasticsearch index structure. The team discussed the possibility of creating Kibana dashboards using Elasticsearch integration with Vivo, which Ivan had previously attempted by replicating functionality from a Brazilian instance. While the initial implementation was successful, there were concerns about security implications of making ElasticSearch publicly accessible. Ivan noted that Kibana should typically be used for admin visualizations rather than public-facing content, and suggested that authorization controls would need to be carefully considered for any public access. Georgy raised concerns about authorization implications, noting that direct Elasticsearch access would create another layer of authorization separate from existing VIVO controls. The team also mentioned a previous project by Asim that involved shielding Elasticsearch from public access, though the specific repository for this work could not be immediately located. Dragan suggested Ivan create a pull request on top of vivo-es repository with exported Kibana templates. 

VIVO-ORCID

The team also discussed the VIVO-ORCID project timeline, with Dragan setting a goal to complete the pull request by May and work on documentation in June. VIVO-ORCID contributions should be published as part of VIVO 1.16.0. The team discussed testing requirements for ORCID integration, with Ivan explaining that they need specific credentials and API keys from ORCID sandbox to test properly. Ivan will add more details in the testing instructions within the PR description.

Outdated documentation

Dragan had updated PDF attachments linked with technical documentation (1.11 release and above).

VIVO-MVP

Regarding the data distribution API for OAPMH export, Georgy explained that ETAG-based caching headers are not currently supported in Elasticsearch due to the removal of timestamp functionality in version 5.0, and suggested implementing a search implementation agnostic solution until a proper Elasticsearch implementation is found.

  

Draft notes in Google Docs

Task List


  • Dragan Ivanovic 
    • Check and fix outdated documentation identified by Christian and Folke
      • Review and respond to any wiki page changes made by team members
    • Start intensive reviewing of Milos's accessibility guideline pull requests after VIVO 1.16 release
  • Folke Meyer 
  • Brian Lowe 
    • Work on first two tickets from new issues list
    • Document additional bugs noticed in VIVO
      • Create issue ticket for Jenna library sorting bug affecting Solar sort fields
    • Review PR for signing in VIVO by using ORCID credentials
  • Georgy Litvinov 
    • Rename custom browse filter page to clarify it covers custom page creation with filters
    • Add documentation for user roles management as paragraphs 
    • Create separate page for data distribution API with screenshots and detailed descriptions
    • Consider adding documentation for reporting features
    • Review PR for pushing VIVO data into ORCID profile
  • Benjamin Kampe 
    • Investigate and resolve security vulnerabilities flagged in ORCID pull request
    • Fix failing build in ORCID pull request
    • Address code changes requests for VIVO-ORCID PR
  • Christian Hauschke 
    • Review and remove outdated documentation for VIVO versions prior to 1.6
  • Miloš Popović 
  • Amin Keshavarzi
    • Investigate what Brian suggested via slack and report back next week (about two search boxes at home page)
  • Ivan Mrsulja 

Previous Tasks 

  • Dragan Ivanovic 
    • Create Wiki/Confluence accounts for Folke, Muthuraj, Svetlana, and Gazi
    • Share poll via Slack for new meeting time slot
    • Follow up with Washington about contributing visualization work, Muturaj to follow up discussion
    • Create release candidate for VIVO 1.16
    • Announce release candidate to the community 
    • Contact Jose again regarding OAI-PMH component
    • Share information with Amin about euroCRIS/4Science project on equipment description
    • Update the wiki documentation to reflect the release of 1.14.4 and 1.15.1 and include information about patching.
    • Convert the VIVO-ORCID pull request to "ready for review" status once notified by Ivan.
    • Merge XSS fixes to the VIVO main branch
    • Release a patch for VIVO 1.15 and 1.14.
    • Contact Jose Ortiz again regarding Crosswalk work
  • Georgy Litvinov 
    • Create new pull request from scratch for Elastic Search connection pooling solution and notify Dragan when pull request is created
    • Help with instructions in google forms about testing word and excel reporting
    • Investigate why the JSON configuration file for the branding VIVO pull request is not being copied to the expected Apache web folder
  • Brian Lowe
    • Create GitHub issue for CSV to RDF model selection bug
    • Merge approved pull requests for UI labels improvements
  • Bridget Almas 
    • Create VIVO 1.17.x documentation space with restricted acces
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  • Miloš Popović 
    •  Complete work on second pair of pull requests for accessibility guidelines
  • Ivan Mrsulja 
    • Add a "refresh configuration" button to reload JSON configuration without restarting, implement full locale support in translations (not just language codes), and open pull request for VIVO Harvester
    • Implement centralized dashboard for scheduled tasks (VIVO-Harvester)
    • Add edit functionality for scheduled tasks
    • Change "wordiness" label to "log level" for clarity
    • Continue VIVO harvester refactoring work and consider renaming files to use standardized names instead of source-specific names
    • Complete the VIVO-ORCID pull request (layout issue of some buttons) and inform Dragan when it is ready for review
  • Folke Meyer 
    • Move Docker installation instructions from draft wiki page to 1.17 private documentation space
    • Begin VIVO installation and testing using Docker
    • Document installation process and share feedback via Slack
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  • Benjamin Kampe 
    • Create pull request for ORCID authentication implementation (next week after Eastern vacation)
    • Complete ORCID sign-in integration work
  • Jessica
    • Create project repository for CST interoperability specifications and give VIVO team commenting privileges
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