Sunny Gainesville, Florida is the site for the VIVO Hackathon, held May 4-7 on the University of Florida campus. The project welcomes participants from around the globe, including attendees from Harvard University, the University of Manchester, DERI, the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Maastricht University, Cornell University, Indiana University, and the University of Florida.
VIVO is an open source!, open development, semantic web! application for representing information about science and scientists and providing semantic link capability to other resources of interest to science and scientists around the world. The Hackathon will bring together developers from the semantic web community and the VIVO project to explore avenues of interest.
There are no guidelines for what can be created at the Hackathon. Developers may wish to explore visualization, data integration, new applications, vocabulary servers, search, integration of existing applications, and more. Code, diagrams, and writings will be posted to vivo.sourceforge.net throughout the event. You can follow the event on Twitter at #vivohack11.
Welcome developers!