Outreach: A critical intersection of libraries and technology
1. Outreach: A critical intersection of
libraries and technology
Kristi Holmes, PhD
Bioinformaticist
Becker Medical Library
http://vivo.wustl.edu/display/n4754
Twitter: @kristiholmes
December 6, 2011
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2. Outreach can be a difficult concept to define
and it often requires a grassroots approach
which benefits from technology
3. industry government patients
physicians schools public libraries
social funding
media
workers agencies
MEDICAL
LIBRARIES
research
administration organizations
scientists
clinical study community
the public
coordinators groups
citizen
students policy makers
scientists
4. Reaching out from the library
Information resources
Library services
Education
Enhanced services
• E-Science support
• Research support/consultations
• Clinical informatics
• Tracking & evaluation
• Impact
8. industry government patients
physicians schools public libraries
social funding
media
workers agencies
MEDICAL
LIBRARIES
research
administration organizations
scientists
clinical study community
the public
coordinators groups
citizen
students policy makers
scientists
9. industry patients government
funding
basic research citizen agencies
physicians scientists scientists
organizations
schools MEDICAL
LIBRARIES
community
groups media
the public
policy makers
administration
clinical study
coordinators
students
social
public libraries
workers
12. Researcher Networking
What is it?
Ideal role for libraries
• Information organization, instruction, usability, subject
expertise, ontologies and controlled vocabularies
• Have a tradition of service and support
• Strive to serve all missions of the institution
• Have close, trusted relationships with our clients
• Understand user needs
• Understand the importance of collaboration and know
how to bring people together
• Have knowledge of institution, research, education,
technology, and clinical landscapes
RN Adoption and Outreach, VIVO SF wiki
13. Researcher Networking and the
Semantic Web
• Increasing recognition of the value of semantic web
standards
• Increasing momentum in support of semantic web
technologies to facilitate research discovery
• Recommendations for researcher networking recently
endorsed by the CTSA Consortium Steering Committee
represent a new standard in researcher networking.
– Read more at http://vivoweb.org/blog
• Examples of applications that consume these rich data
include: visualizations, enhanced multi-site search, and
VIVO Searchlight. Other utilities are in development
across a wide range of topic areas.
14. VIVO
Enables collaboration and
discovery across an institution
and among institutions
An open-source semantic web application
that enables the discovery of research and
scholarship across disciplines in an
institution.
VIVO harvests data from verified sources &
offers 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. Public, structured linked data about
investigators interests, activities and
accomplishments, and tools to use that
data to advance science
15. Collaboration & Discovery
Across institutions, VIVO provides a uniform semantic structure to
enable a new class of tools using the data to advance science.
18. Not just for individual scientists!
• Libraries, departments
– Ontology, extensions
– Impact
• Centers of excellence
• Memberships
Beyond
– ICTS
– IRCs Bedside
• Core Research Facilities
• Funding agencies Bench
• Administrators
• Community Partners
– WU-ICTS community partners
– Highlight efforts
19. The library is a conduit
to information, collaboration,
and discovery
and tools like VIVO can help make
this work easier for everyone.
(so we can all spend our time on more interesting
endeavors!)
20. Acknowledgements
Funding: Collaborations:
• VIVO, NIH award U24 RR029822 • Washington University
• Washington University Institute ICTS, Departments
of Clinical and Translational • VIVO colleagues from around
Sciences, NIH award UL1 the world
RR024992 • Becker Library colleagues
Questions: • Library colleagues everywhere
• holmeskr@wustl.edu
• Twitter: @kristiholmes
• http://vivo.wustl.edu/display/n4754 Thank you!
People like to consume information on their terms, on their schedule, and in a manner that “works” for them.
Notice the direction of the message, traditional activities and services which libraries are well-known for.
Enhanced services – becoming more prominent at a number of libraries – e-science support, research support/consultations by subject specialists, clinical informatics, tracking and evaluation activities, impact
In terms of:People engaging each otherWhat they’re connecting about
Consider one area of effort that is on everyone’s minds these days – genomicsCitizen scientists, community clinicsComplexity, topics, funding requirements - Necessitate collaborative approach
Consider one area of effort that is on everyone’s minds these days – genomicsWith openSNP, you can share your personal genome from 23andMe or deCODEme to find the latest relevant research and let scientists discover new genetic associations. (Mendeleyannouncemen)Citizen scientists, community clinicsComplexity, topics, funding requirements - Necessitate collaborative approach
Notice the direction of the message, traditional activities and services which libraries are well-known for.
Really – complex beautiful multi-directional web of interactions and collaboration – and the library is poised perfectly to play as large of role as ever in the information ecosystemIt is just a matter of connecting the right people
Libraries are always ahead of the curve on technology – there isn’t a lot that I can tell you about twitter, facebookblogging that you aren’t doing in your libraries already. However, there are technologies that are becoming more prevalent and accepted in the library community and beyond which can be leveraged for outreach –Specifically the Semantic Web, Libraries and the semantic web – resources at the end of the presentation (MARC records being the most recent and most significant SemWeb news out of the library world.
What is Researcher Networking?Why Libraries?
ONTOLOGY SUPPORTS A VARIETY OF OUTPUTS AND MODES OF DISSEMINATIONVIVO enables collaboration and understanding across an institution and among institutionsVIVO harvests much of its data automatically from verified sources so it is accurate and current, reducing the need for manual input.The rich information in VIVO profiles can be repurposed and shared with other institutional web pages and consumers, reducing cost and increasing efficiencies across the institution. Data is housed and maintained at the local institutions. There it can be updated on a regular basis. Search results are faceted so information can be located rapidly and with less time spent sorting through information.Profiles are largely created via automated data feeds, but can be customized to suit the needs of the individual.Profiles are richer in content than typical [web pages or] social networking sites and will rank higher in general internet searches. Each institution provides its own VIVO system and data. Local governance determines data to be provided.
Across institutions VIVO provides a uniform semantic structure to enable a new class of tools using the data to advance science. visualizations, search, discovery, etc
DEEP SEMANTIC SEARCHWhile searches for people are an obvious requirement for researcher networking, we don't want to limit ourselves to searching for people. VIVO's ontology-based data model is not limited to profiles of people, but includes organizations, events, publications, grants, and many other types of data. This enables VIVO to represent the relationships among people and other types of data as an interconnected network that can be accessed in many ways.
Miles WorthingtonImage from Dr. Barend Mons, Scientific Director of the Netherlands Bioinformatics InstituteAllows experts to be found, but also ties the object to specific concepts