The following presentation was given on the January 30, 2015 VIVO implementation and development call.
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To be successful, a roadmap process should lower the bar to contribution, not only in the process but for any aspect of the VIVO community. The VIVO community is a big tent welcoming participation by anyone interested in the VIVO software, the VIVO-ISF ontology, or more generally in the building networks of research and researchers in any domain. | |
A roadmap process must start broad enough to encompass many activities and goals, and must be closely aligned with overall project and community strategy and goals. | |
Here are some of the tasks that developing a roadmap will likely include | |
A roadmap should respond to feedback from the field in order to address pain points in practice, not just new features. | |
Each of the main headings here is broken out in more detail that follows. | |
See also the VIVO/Vitro Architecture page and Software Architecture Overview. | |
Performance and scalability are frequently recurring themes as VIVO projects assemble more data and support additional web traffic. | |
VIVO's search indexer has improved performance and additional configuration options for VIVO v1.8. | |