VIVO: Support for Translational ResearchWhat is VIVO?

VIVO is an open source semantic web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplinary and administrative boundaries through interlinked pro�les of people and other research-related information.

VIVO uses data ingested from institutional sources of record and external sources and can be supplemented with manual entry to populate detailed pro�les of researchers with information related to publications, grants, educational background, research interests, teaching, awards, professional a�liations, and more.

Data in VIVO conform to a public ontology of types and relationships that can be extended for local needs via the ontology editor included with the VIVO application.

VIVO's ontology supports faceted searching for quick retrieval of people, organizations, events, and research-related information.

Institutional VIVOs and other compatible pro�ling applications are producing data to form a rich network of information that can be searched to foster collaboration across institutions and enable open sharing of research discovery.

How can you use VIVO?

Create cross-disciplinary research teams:Anthony is writing a multi-disciplinary research proposal on molecular treatments for breast cancer. He would like to identify and contact potential collaborators and begin to exchange information regarding the research.Identify potential funding opportunities:Mary is the director of a large research center. She would like to visualize clusters of interests, techniques, and areas of specialty amongst the researchers that are part of her center. She would like to use this information to grow existing areas of strength and collaborative e�orts and maximize ROI.

Recruit graduate students:Tom is completing his BS in Biology. He wants to identify institutions with robust programs in his research area of interest — the genetic bases of neurodegenerative disorders.

Locate focused publication content:Samantha is a faculty member at an university. She is looking for papers published by other scholars at her institution on using advanced statistical methods to analyze research impact in the bioinformatics domain.Assemble specialized review panels:David is a federal agency sta� member. He needs to identify people who can serve on scienti�c review panels. He wants to �nd people who work in speci�c areas, but wants to exclude people who have been co-authors with the researchers whose proposals are under review.

Plan budgets, services and resources:Library administration or directors of core facilities want to align their strategic plan with the evolving research needs of their clientele. Identifying growth areas of research through increasing publications, focused areas of research, and grant dollars enables this task to become more evidence-based.

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VisualizationsVIVO provides network analysis and visualization tools to maximize the bene�ts a�orded by the data available in VIVO.

VIVO enables high quality data to be revealed about researchers, their collaborators, their funding sources, and more. VIVO v1.2 o�ers options for export as images or data.

A VIVO pro�le

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By storing data in VIVO in RDF and using standard ontologies, the information in VIVO can either be displayed in a human-readable web page or delivered to other systems as RDF. This allows the open researcher data in VIVO to be harvested, aggregated, and integrated into the Linked Open Data cloud. SPARQL is an RDF query language which allows users to construct globally unambiguous queries, from across diverse data sources.

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*VIVO Collaboration: Cornell University: Dean Kra�t (Cornell PI), Manolo Bevia, Jim Blake, Nick Cappadona, Brian Caruso, Jon Corson-Rikert, Elly Cramer, Medha Devare, Elizabeth Hines, Huda Khan, Brian Lowe, Deepak Konidena, 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), Beth Auten, Michael Barbieri, Chris Barnes, Kaitlin Blackburn, Cecilia Botero, Kerry Britt, Erin Brooks, Amy Buhler, Ellie Bushhousen, Linda Butson, Chris Case, Christine Cogar, Valrie Davis, Mary Edwards, Nita Ferree, Rolando Garcia-Milan, George Hack, Chris Haines, Sara Henning, Rae Jesano, Margeaux Johnson, Meghan Latorre, Yang Li, Jennifer Lyon, Paula Markes, Hannah Norton, James Pence, Narayan Raum, Nicholas Rejack, 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, Ryan Cobine, Jeni Co�ey, 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, Michael Stamper, 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, Sam Katov, Brant Kelley, Paula King, Angela Murrell, Barbara Noble, Cary Thomas, Michaeleen Trimarchi. Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine: 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 Cheri�, Oscar Cruz, Dan Dickinson, Richard Hu, Chris Huang, Itay Klaz, Kenneth Lee, Peter Michelini, Grace Migliorisi, John Ru�ng, 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".

VIVONational Search

A national search feature will allow users to access the rich data available in VIVO and other compatible platforms and enable meaningful search across a series of semantically available endpoints.

Internal data sources: HR directory O�ce of Sponsored Research Institutional Repositories Registrar System Faculty activity systems Events and seminars

External data sources: Publication warehouses PubMed, Scopus, etc. Grant databases NIH RePORTER Organizations and societies AAAS, AMA, etc.

Faculty and unit administrators can then supplement pro�les with additional information Research statement Honors and awards

Data stored as RDF triples using standard ontology

VIVO data is available for reuse by web pages, applications, and other consumers both within and outside the institution.

VIVO Open Source Community

VIVO Collaborative Research Projects Program

Data Sources

HarvesterThe Harvester is an extensible data ingest and updating framework with sample con�gurations for loading PubMed publication, grants, and human resources data.

Download Harvester:http://sourceforge.net/projects/vivo

VIVO 1.2 includes a new ontology module representing research resources including biological specimens, human studies, instruments, organisms, protocols, reagents, and research opportunities. This module is aligned with the top-level ontology classes and properties from the NIH-funded eagle-i Project(https://www.eagle-i.org/home/).

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VIVO Ontology

VIVO Widgets Ricardo Pietrobon, Duke University with Richard Outten, Mark McCahill, and Paolo Mangia�coThis e�ort proposes to create a set of widgets that display information from VIVO pro�les in blogs, portals, and departmental and lab pages. This will simplify the display of authoritative VIVO information on other sites, will include links back to the original VIVO pro�le.

Digital Vita Documents (DV Docs) for VIVO Titus Schleyer and Michael Becich – University of PittsburghThe aim of this proposal is to import DV’s document generation functions to the VIVO platform, generalize them, and provide a simple web application for VIVO users to manage and generate NIH biosketches.

The VIVO platform and ORCID in the scholarly identity ecosystem Gudmundur A. Thorisson, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Geo�rey W. Bilder, CrossRef, Oxford, United Kingdom; and Martin Fenner Hannover Medical School, Germany on behalf of ORCID (http://www.orcid.org)The overall aim of this project is to understand how VIVO and ORCID can interact in the scholarly identity ecosystem by working with the VIVO platform to develop extensions to the VIVO platform to support ORCID use cases such as search/retrieve/ingest bibliographic information from CrossRef and secure exchange of pro�le information between VIVO and an external system, such as a manuscript tracking system.

Integrating the UMLS Ontology into VIVO for Linking Biomedical ScientistsMoises Eisenberg and Janos Hajagos – Stony Brook University Dept of Medical Informatics/SUNY REACH Web Presence TeamThe aim of this proposal is to create open-source tool that uses domain-speci�c ontologies to normalize research interests in the VIVO platform. This e�ort should help facilitate inter-institutional searching for biomedical researchers.

A HUBzero/Joomla! VIVO ApplicationWilliam K. Barnett, Robert H. McDonald, and Anurag Shankar – Indiana UniversityJoomla! is a portal engine and content management system similar to Drupal. This work proposes to develop a Joomla! extension of the VIVO application to be integrated within HUBzero. This will o�er a number of ways of restructuring and restyling VIVO content.

Core project development is augmented with contributions and feedback by other developers across multiple institutions on SourceForge.

The VIVO open source community space was recently upgraded to SourceForge 2.0. This is a major upgrade for SourceForge and we look forward to easier administration, better navigation and a new look.

More content will be added to SourceForge in the coming months to support implementation, adoption, and development e�orts.

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These data can serve as the foundation for further network analyses and elegant visualizations of the research enterprise on the individual, local, and global levels.