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

[Don Elsborg]

Hi BESSIG,

On the semantic web thread, After BESSIG I'm going to a meetup at 7pm in Boulder related to Graph Databases.
Check out details at:
http://www.meetup.com/Graph-Nerds-of-Boulder/events/97889442/?a=md1_grp&rv=md1&_af_eid=97889442&_af=event
Interesting stuff.

Cheers
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Don Elsborg



-----Original Message-----
From: bessig-bounces at lists.esipfed.org [mailto:bessig-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:47 PM
To: bessig at lists.esipfed.org
Subject: [Bessig] BESSIG Jan Meeting Wed, 1/16, 4:00 - 6:00, Outlook Hotel

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
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