[Bessig] BESSIG Jan Meeting Wed, 1/16, 4:00 - 6:00, Outlook Hotel

[Anne Wilson]

Hi BESSIG,

Happy New Year!

Our next BESSIG meeting is Wednesday, January 16, at 4:00.  Our speaker 
will be Stephan Williams, from CU Boulder's Office of Faculty Affairs. 
Stephen's topic is:

"VIVO, VITRO, DataStar, and Beyond - The VIVO Project"

The VIVO project was started at Cornell University in 2003 as a faculty 
profiling system for Mann Library.  The profiling system that is VIVO 
was designed in two parts, VITRO the semantic engine that is ontology 
agnostic and VIVO the ontology specific pages and data for presenting 
faculty profiles.  This concept of a two tied system was taken into the 
third tier with location specific changes (Cornell and CU-Boulder) and 
ontologies that build upon VIVO (data star).  This talk will focus on 
the VIVO project as a whole, its history, its ancillary projects, and 
its future.  We'll also try to cover difficulties and lessons in 
semantic programming and the experiences of building ETL tools for 
semantic data.

Full details are available at 
http://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/BESSIG/2013/01/08/BESSIG+Meeting+Wed%2C+Jan+16%2C+4+-+6+PM.

Please join us!

Also, being the start of the new year, I would like to hear from BESSIG 
members regarding topics for the year, suggested speakers, and any other 
feedback you have to offer.   What topics would you like to hear about? 
  Do you have any work you'd like to tell us about?  Would you like to 
practice and get feedback on an upcoming presentation?  Do you know 
anyone doing interesting and relevant work that might speak to us?  Do 
you have out of town visitors that are coming that might speak to us? 
Do you have any ideas for a panel discussion and panelists?  Should we 
have a poster session for people to present those AGU posters that they 
dragged back from San Francisco?  Or some other kind of meeting format? 
  What could we do better?

Please let me know.  The more I hear from you the better I can help 
provide something useful and worthwhile.  Also, feedback is reinforcing 
and helps me maintain enthusiasm and momentum.

I would very much like to find someone that would take on management of 
the web site to make it more alive.  Is there anyone out there that is 
interested in taking that on?

Thank you for your interest in the BESSIG!  I wish you peace and 
prosperity for 2013.

Sincerely,

Anne