vivo: online networking and research management for scientists
DESCRIPTION
An overview including why to use VIVO; who uses VIVO; implementation; and the role of the library in supporting VIVO. Originally delivered at Science, Technology, and Medical Librarians Special Interest Group, Metropolitan New York Library Council.TRANSCRIPT
VIVO: ONLINE NETWORKING AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT FOR SCIENTISTS
John CareyHunter College Health Professions LibraryOctober 15, 2010
VIVO
Enabling collaboration and discovery between scientists and across all disciplines?
There’s an app for that.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, U24
RR029822.
Inception
“The idea of VIVO was to transcend administrative divisions and create a single point of access for scholarly interaction.”
Medha Devare,
VIVO Outreach
Brooks, E., Case, C., Corson-Rikert, J. et al. (2010). National VIVO network implementation plan, p. 3. Retrieved from http://www.vivoweb.org/files/ImplementationPlan_8_6.pdf.
Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web
A lot of data, a little semantics
Linking and aggregating to take best advantage of what’s out there
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
Partner Institutions
VIVO Profiles
Affiliation
Publication
s
Research
Teaching
Contact
info,
website
Why Use VIVO?
Populated with information from verified
sources (not input by users)
Uses controlled vocabulary to
standardize and retrieve information
Readable by people or machines / apps
Centralized, searchable
Who Uses VIVO?
Researchers, faculty
Administrators
Funding agencies, donors
Students looking for an academic
program
The public
Benefits for the Scientist
Team Science More work now done in teams That work more effective (per impact
factor) Teams with members from varying
disciplines more effective
VIVO → “Virtual” team science
N. Contractor, Keynote Speech, VIVO National Conference, August 12, 2010.
Implementation Team
Minimum FTEs:
Programmer/analyst (for data ingest)
Systems administrator (maintains
computers and network)
Information Management*
Training and Outreach*
Critical Databases
Publications, Grants, and HR
Human resources Personal info, background Bio sketches from
departments Institutional grants database Publications
Harvesting Author disambiguation
The Library’s Role
Information Architecture Maintain metadata standards Negotiate with data stewards (internal
or external)
Outreach Performed by subject specialists/liaisons Market and promote VIVO to faculty
Support
http://www.vivoweb.org/
National VIVO Network Implementation Plan Subscribe to VIVO newsletter Request a webinar demo Media Kit for help with local marketing at
your institution
Tutorials, etc. to come