2014-05-08 Implementation and Development Call

Announcements

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, May 15 at noon EDT

• Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is May 13th at 1pm EDT

• April 29th call: Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Brazil) and getting specialized data into RDF and then into VIVO -- video will be on YouTube soon

• did his whole presentation with Emacs

• Had a call with David Wood yesterday about Callimachus

• he spoke at the VIVO conference last year

• Apps and Tools workshop at the conference. Looking for participants to do demos -- looking for the best ways to create, use, visualize VIVO data and would love to have additional authors and help

• VIVO Bootcamp at ELAG 2014 (June 10 at University of Bath, United Kingdom)

• Violeta Ilik from Texas A&M will be there

• the organizers (including Violeta) are looking for another representative from the VIVO community

Upcoming Activities 

• First annual survey of VIVO sites

• The survey: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom 

• A presentation proposal has been submitted to the conference and in order to have time to compile and analyze the data, responses are requested by May 29 

• Next themed weekly call topic – May 22nd: Performance Part 2 or VIVO 1.7?

Site Updates

• Site updates during next week's call

Theme: End User Documentation

• VIVO End User Documentation – for supporting end users who will be editing in VIVO, whether individually or as proxy editors for a whole department (requested by University of Florida) -- can we make templated documentation where individual sites can put in tips or extra information? Rumor has it there’s a good document underway -- can this be shared on GitHub using GitHub pages? (Alex: GitHub being used by non-coders for local political campaigns and other collaborative writing projects)

• Are there examples from other projects that do documentation better?

• Format of themed calls could be a mix of presentations and working session

• Note that we are seeking volunteer facilitators for each themed call -- let Alex, Paul, or Jon know directly or via the listserv(s)

• Our weekly VIVO dev/impl call tomorrow will focus on VIVO End User documentation with special guest Mike Conlon. We'll also have Layne Johnson, the new VIVO Project Director, joining our call. Our basic agenda:

  1. Dr. Johnson introduction

  2. Jim Blake's overview of current VIVO end user documentation on the wiki, with a few highlights such as managing documentation versioning for recent 1.5, 1.6, and the upcoming 1.7 release of VIVO

  3. Dr. Conlon will share his thoughts on improving end user documentation, with specific use cases at University of Florida in mind and how these might be shared with other institutions

  As always, we'll encourage attendee participation. Please bring your end user documentation concerns and suggestions. We hope to hear from institutions that have rolled out VIVO. What questions came up from their end user communities that aren't addressed by the existing documentation. How could institutions best collaborate on documentation? Would the VIVO wiki, a GitHub documentation repo, Google Docs, or another tool best serve a collaboration? Is there interest in an online VIVO end user documentation edit-a-thon, inspired by Wikipedia's approach?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon

  Our normal meeting announcement with additional details and conference call info will go out later today.

Notable list traffic 

• TBD

See the vivo-dev-all archive and vivo-imp-issues archive for complete email threads

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