Do you have a task in biomedical or clinical informatics that will benefit from the use of ontologies or ontology-based technology? Want to brainstorm application design and development questions? Want help incorporating the NCBO Web services into your application?

Join us for the first-ever NCBO Hackathon. This event will include two days of intensive hands-on sessions to facilitate the development of applications using NCBO Web services. We will devote extensive time to your software development project and will have presentations covering a range of topics from application design to coding. You will:

• Brainstorm ideas for applications
• Discuss coding issues, performance tuning, and future development plans
• Learn about the suite of NCBO Web services and how they are (and have been!) used in applications. Examples include access to ontologies, search, mappings, term proposals, text annotation, and biomedical resource search (the “Resource Index”)
• Hear about the design of our RDF triple store and learn how to access the triple-store directly from your application using the SPARQL query language

Early registration is $25, but spots are limited so register online now.

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Collaboratory Platforms

Alfresco – http://www.alfresco.com/

Apache – http://www.apache.org/

dotCMS – http://www.dotcms.org/

DotNetNuke – http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

dotproject – http://www.dotproject.net/

Drupal – http://drupal.org/

Joomla – http://www.joomla.org/

Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/

OpenSuSE – http://www.opensuse.org/en/

Red Hat – http://www.redhat.com/

Ubuntu – http://www.ubuntu.com/

Zoho – http://www.zoho.com/

Zimbra – http://www.zimbra.com/

Zope – http://www.zope.org/

IRC
SocialCast

Wikispaces

WordPress P2 Theme

WizeHive

Yammer

SalesForce
SugarCRM
Maximizer
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Goldmine

This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD, and is the 7th in the series of 3-month open annual events, by and for the Ontology Community and their collaborators.  #ontsum

The Second Annual VIVO Conference will be held August 24 – 26 at the Gaylord National in Washington D.C. The conference is sponsoring a competition for applications using data coming from VIVO systems to support science.

Eligibility

Applications can be written in any language.

To qualify applications must:

• Consume VIVO data from more than one VIVO consortium site. Applications consuming data from other sites will not be considered.
• Be hosted outside the consortium (University of Florida, Cornell University, Indiana University, Washington University School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, The Scripps Research Institute, and Ponce School of Medicine).
• Be accessible from a single persistent URL, accessible on the public Internet without authentication.

Criteria for Success

Applications will be judged on the following criteria:

1. Value to scientists on the national network.
2. Functionality. The application performs as described.
3. Presentation. The application is well organized and attractive.

Prizes

The first prize winner will have registration refunded, receive a cash prize and will be awarded a plaque at a recognition ceremony during the conference. Second and third prize winners will receive certificates.

Submission

To submit your application, please send an email to vivo-application-contest@vivoweb.org. Applications are due July 31, 2011. Winners will be announced at the conference. Submissions must include:

The judges will execute the application from the URL provided without assistance from the authors.

Additional Resources

VIVO uses Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org) standards for data access via Resource Description Framework (RDF).  See the Linked Data site for more information regarding Linked Data, RDF and data processing. VIVO enjoys a robust open source, open community space on SourceForge. The VIVO software and ontology are publicly available at http://vivo.sourceforge.net along with content that supports implementation, adoption, and development efforts around the world

http://vivoweb.org/files/CFApps_0.pdf