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Cornell University: Dean Krafft (Cornell PI), Elly Cramer (Co-PI), Manolo Bevia, Jim Blake, Nick Cappadona, Brian Caruso, Jon Corson-Rikert, Elizabeth Hines, Huda Khan, Brian Lowe, Joseph McEnerney, Holly Mistlebauer, Stella Mitchell, Anup Sawant, Christopher Westling, Tim Worrall, Rebecca Younes. University of Florida: Mike Conlon (VIVO and UF PI), Chris Barnes, Cecilia Botero, Kerry Britt, Amy Buhler, Ellie Bushhousen, Linda Butson, Chris Case, Christine Cogar, Valrie Davis, Mary Edwards, Nita Ferree, Chris Haines, Rae Jesano, Margeaux Johnson, Sara Kreinest, Meghan Latorre, Yang Li, Hannah Norton, Narayan Raum, Alexander Rockwell, Sara Russell Gonzalez, Nancy Schaefer, Dale Scheppler, Nicholas Skaggs, Matthew Tedder, Michele R. Tennant, Alicia Turner, Stephen Williams. Indiana University: Katy Borner (IU PI), Kavitha Chandrasekar, Bin Chen, Shanshan Chen, Jeni Coffey, Suresh Deivasigamani, Ying Ding, Russell Duhon, Jon Dunn, Poornima Gopinath, Julie Hardesty, Brian Keese, Namrata Lele, Micah Linnemeier, Nianli Ma, Robert H. McDonald, Asik Pradhan Gongaju, Mark Price, Yuyin Sun, Chintan Tank, Alan Walsh, Brian Wheeler, Feng Wu, Angela Zoss. Ponce School of Medicine: Richard J. Noel, Jr. (Ponce PI), Ricardo Espada Colon, Damaris Torres Cruz, Michael Vega Negrón. The Scripps Research Institute: Gerald Joyce (Scripps PI), Catherine Dunn, Brant Kelley, Paula King, Angela Murrell, Barbara Noble, Cary Thomas, Michaeleen Trimarchi. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: Rakesh Nagarajan (WUSTL PI), Kristi L. Holmes, Caerie Houchins, George Joseph, Sunita B. Koul, Leslie D. McIntosh. Weill Cornell Medical College: Curtis Cole (Weill PI), Paul Albert, Victor Brodsky, Mark Bronnimann, Adam Cheriff, Oscar Cruz, Dan Dickinson, Richard Hu, Chris Huang, Itay Klaz, Kenneth Lee, Peter Michelini, Grace Migliorisi, John Ruffing, Jason Specland, Tru Tran, Vinay Varughese, Virgil Wong.
This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24 RR029822, "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists".
VIVO Collaboration:
In September 2009, seven institutions received $12.2 million in funding from the National Center for Research Resources of the NIH to to enable National Networking with VIVO
• Originally developed at Cornell University in 2004 to support Life Sciences• Reimplemented using RDF, OWL, Jena and SPARQL in 2007• Now covers all faculty, researchers and disciplines at Cornell• Implemented at University of Florida in 2007• Underlying system in use at Chinese Academy of Sciences and Australian Universities
VIVO history… born in the library
VIVO is:
Populated with detailed profiles of faculty and researchers; displaying items such as publications, teaching, service, and professional affiliations.
A powerful search functionality for locating people and information within or across institutions.
An open-source semantic web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines in an institution.
Who uses VIVO?
…and many more!
Faculty/Scholar/Researcher/Scientist• Find collaborators• Track competitors• Keep abreast of new work• Rely on customizable profiles maintained via
automatic updates
Student• Locate mentors, advisors, or
collaborators• Locate events, seminars, courses,
programs, facilities• Showcase own research
Administrator• Showcase college, program, departmental
activities• Identify areas of institutional strength• Manage data in one place
Donor/ Funding Agency• Discover current funded projects• Search for specialized expertise• Visualize research activity within an
institution
VIVO’s semantic advantage
Data modeled as bidirectional relationships
All data has standard form
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Faceted search, browse, and ontology hierarchy
Why Libraries?
• Are a trusted, neutral entity• Have a tradition of service and support• Strive to serve all missions of the institution• Are technology centers and have IT and data expertise
• Have skills—information organization, instruction, usability, subject expertise
• Have close relationships with their clients (buy in)• Understand user needs• Understand the importance of collaboration and know how
to bring people together• Have knowledge of institution, research, education, clinical
landscape
Librarians:
Libraries:
Library staff as facilitators
Oversight of initial content development
• Oversee content, local ontology and interface refinement• Negotiate with campus data stewards for publicly visible data
Support and training: local and national level
• Use existing VIVO documentation, presentation/demo templates• Provide support, web site FAQs, etc.
Communication/liaising
• Engage with potential collaborators, participants • Usability: Feedback, new use cases from users to implementation team
VIVO harvests much of its data programmatically from verified sources
• Reduces the need for manual input of data• Provides an integrated and flexible source of publicly
visible data at an institutional level
Data, data, data
Individuals may also edit and customize their profiles to suit their professional needs.
External data sources
Internal data sources
http://gradeducation.lifesciences.cornell.edu/
http://research.cals.cornell.edu
Repurposing and re-using data
Stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples Uses the shared VIVO Core Ontology to describe people,
organizations, activities, publications, events, interests, grants, and other relationships Incorporates Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) and Bibliographic
Ontology (BIBO) Supports local ontology extensions for institution-specific
needs
Data in VIVO: Semantic Web standardsSubject Predicate (verb) ObjectRiha, Susan research area crop management
Riha, Susan international geographic focus Brazil
Riha, Susan submitter of impact statement Climate change and its impact on the distribution of invasive weeds
Riha, Susan selected publication (authorship) Biomass, harvestable area, and forest structure estimated from commercial timber inventories and remotely sensed imagery in southern Amazonia
Mike Conlon’s VIVO profile
Mike Conlon’s VIVO profile as Linked Data
Detailed relationships for a researcher
Andrew McDonald
author of
has author
research area
research area for
academic staff in
academic staff
Susan Riha
Mining the record: Historical evidence for…
author ofhas author
teaches research area for
research area
headed byNYS WRI
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
crop management
CSS 4830
Cornell’s supercomputers crunch weather data to help farmers manage chemicals
head offaculty appointment in
faculty members
taught by
featured in
features person
Visualizing relationships
Visuali-zation
Ponce VIVO
WashU VIVO
Scripps VIVO UF
VIVOIU
VIVO
WCMC VIVO
Cornell VIVO RDF
Triple Store
RDFTriple Store
FutureVIVO
FutureVIVO
FutureVIVO
OtherRDF
OtherRDF
OtherRDF
Prof. Assn.Triple Store
RegionalTriple Store
Search
OtherRDF
Search
Linked Open Data
National networking
