NCBO Virtual Appliance Survey

Technical Concerns

Thank you for taking our survey. We want to learn about your use of the NCBO BioPortal distribution, either as a stand-alone Virtual Appliance, as the AWS-deployed AMI equivalent, or as source code that you build locally. We will use these results to improve our technical and community support for these distributions.

In the following, “NCBO BioPortal” refers to the main site at http://bioportal.bioontology.org/, while “VA” refers to any of the distributions described above.

-- The NCBO BioPortal Team

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* 1. Which was your primary executable: the stand-alone Virtual Appliance, the AWS deployment, or building locally?

Virtual Appliance

AWS AMI deployment

Local build

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* 2. How easy or hard was it to download and set up the VA?

Easy

A little hard

Quite hard

Gave up

Haven't tried it yet

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* 3. How long have you been using the VA?

Haven't used it yet

Less than 6 months

1-3 years

More than 3 years

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* 4. Which version of the VA are you currently using?

Current version (2.4)

Earlier version

Don't know

Not using it

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* 5. How often do you update your VA to catch up on the NCBO BioPortal code?

Never

Roughly once a year

At every new VA release

More often than VA releases (by merging code directly form NCBO's GitHub repository)

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* 6. Have you implemented any significant change in the code or feature in your VA?

No, I am using it as is, out of the box

Yes, in the configuration, or trivial changes

Yes, to troubleshoot or enhance performance

Yes, to add functionality

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* 7. If you have implemented new changes on your VA, would you offer them back to NCBO?

Yes, that would benefit NCBO and make me happy

Yes, but you won't find them useful

No, too much trouble/don't know how

No, our changes are proprietary

Other (please specify)

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* 1. Which was your primary executable: the stand-alone Virtual Appliance, the AWS deployment, or building locally?

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* 2. How easy or hard was it to download and set up the VA?

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* 3. How long have you been using the VA?

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* 4. Which version of the VA are you currently using?

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* 5. How often do you update your VA to catch up on the NCBO BioPortal code?

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* 6. Have you implemented any significant change in the code or feature in your VA?

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* 7. If you have implemented new changes on your VA, would you offer them back to NCBO?

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* 8. What are the main obstacles you encountered in deploying (and maintaining) your own version of the appliance? Please provide details.