The VIVO Story: Origins and Future

Directions

Mike ConlonUniversity of Florida

2006

• Jon Corson-Rikert considers building an institutional profiling system for Cornell• Open• Agricultural

2007

• Jon decides his profiling system should be based on the semantic web:•Ontology•RDF•Triple Store•Exchangeable data

• Valrie Dailey, Agricultural Librarian at UF, meets Jon at a librarian conference and decides to bring VIVO to UF

2008

• VIVO at the University of Melbourne, Simon Porter• VIVO in China, National Academy of China• VIVO at UF

2009 -- April

• NIH RFA• We will need seven schools

• Cornell and UF• Cornell brings Indiana and Weill Cornell• UF brings Washington University at St. Louis, Ponce

Medical School in Puerto Rico• Washington University brings Scripps Medical

Research Institute

• Six weeks to write the grant

2009 -- September

• Announcement of award• Subcontracts• Hiring• Kristi Holmes, Alicia Turner, Katy Börner

2009 - November

• VIVO Technical Advisory Board• Abel Packer, SciELO• Barend Mons, Leiden• Carl Lagoze, Cornell• Carole Goble, Manchester• Chris Bizer, Freie Universitat, Berlin• Dean Krafft, Cornell• Jim Hendler, RPI• Jon Wilbanks, Creative Commons• Kei-Hoi Cheung, Yale• Neil Smalheiser, University of Illinois Chicago• Stefan Decker, DERI• Steffen Staub, Koblenz• York Sure, Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences

2009 - December

• Joint VIVO, eagle-I planning conference in Washington DC.• Meet Melissa Haendel

2010

• Workshop in Bloomington, Semantic Web• Workshop in Gainesville,

Disambiguation• Science of Team Science• A conference in New York

• Noshir Contractor, Indiana• Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute

• Mini-grants

2011

• Daniel Hook, Symplectic• Hackathon at UF• Implementation Fest,

Boulder, Colorado• A conference in DC• CTSA Consortium adopts

VIVO as standard• The end of the two year

grant• No cost extension

2012

• Implementation Fest, Boulder, CO• Conference in Miami• Over 100 sites capable of

producing VIVO compatible data• Transition to Duraspace• VIVO Book• CTSAconnect project – align

VIVO and eagle-I ontologies

2013

• Implementation Fest, Boulder, CO• Conference in St. Louis• 200 sites capable of producing VIVO data• First sponsors meeting• Version 1.6• VIVO-ISF• Workgroup structure• CTSAsearch

http://research.icts.iowa.edu/polyglot19 institutions, 124,945 investigators, 1,325,716 publications, 2,036,131 co-author pairs,

2014

• Sponsors Meeting, March, Washington DC• Implementation Fest, Duke University• Joint Conference in Austin with Science of Team Science• Institutional Repositories• VIVO Project Director• Research resources• Data citations• Provenance

Future Directions

• Information Representation• Strengthen organization• VIVO search• Grow implementations• Visualizations and Tools

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