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