Presentation given at NISO Virtual Conference. "Research Information Systems: The Connections Enabling Collaboration". https://www.niso.org/events/2017/08/research-information-systems-connections-enabling-collaboration

1. VIVO: A Community-driven
Research Information
Management System.
Challenges and Opportunities
8/16/2017
Muhammad Javed, Ph.D.
Ontology Engineer/Tech. Lead (Scholars@Cornell)
Cornell University Library
mj495@cornell.edu | @mjaved495

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Credits: Sandy Payette, Cornell University Library (CUL)
And many more….

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What is VIVO?
• A web resource for single point of access for information on
scholarly activity at Cornell. [Jon Corson-Rikert et. al. (Sep. 2007)]
• A semantic web-based researcher and research discovery tool.
[Duraspace & VIVO Sponsor Webinar (2012)]
• An open source tool for describing and linking researchers and
research. [Dean B. Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert (2012)]
• VIVO creates a connected, integrated record of the scholarly
work of your institution, ready for reporting, visualization, and
analysis. [VIVO: website (2017)]

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What is VIVO?
• A web resource for single point of access for information on
scholarly activity at Cornell. [Jon Corson-Rikert et. al. (Sep. 2007)]
• A semantic web-based researcher and research discovery tool.
[Duraspace & VIVO Sponsor Webinar (2012)]
• An open source tool for describing and linking researchers and
research. [Dean B. Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert (2012)]
• VIVO creates a connected, integrated record of the scholarly
work of your institution, ready for reporting, visualization, and
analysis. [VIVO: website (2017)]

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VIVO – Creates an Institutional Knowledge Graph

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VIVO – A semantic web-based tool
“VIVO-ISF” Ontology as Model
- Written in OWL
- Can express
Disjointness & Unions
Domains/Ranges
Transitiveness.
Inverse Prop.
..and more
https://www.w3.org/OWL/
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVODOC19x/Ontology+Reference

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VIVO – Create records of scholarly works

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VIVO – Analysis and Visualizations
Temporal Graph
Co-investigators
Co-authors
Capability Map

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VIVO – Creates profile pages

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Researcher profile systems:
Community of Scholars
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
SciENcv
VIVO
Subject author identifier system:
Subject repository: arXiv
Research & collaboration hub: nanoHUB
Reference management:
Online encyclopedia: Wikipedia
Credits: OCLC - https://www.slideshare.net/oclcr/registering-researchers-in-authority-files/5
That is how world look at VIVO ?

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Profiles
are
Everywhere
Credits: Sandy Payette, Cornell University Library (CUL)

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FPS vs. RIMS
Examples FPS
(acceptable?)
RIMS
(acceptable?)
1. “Selected” Publication List OK No. Requires as
complete as possible.
2. “Selected” Award and Honors OK No. Requires as
complete as possible.
3. Research Interest Statements (“Text”) OK Not useful, unless
topics are inferred.
4. “Different texts” representing the same entity OK No. Cannot analyze
the data.
5. Citation data details (e.g. journal, page nos., list
of co-authors)
Not required Required

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Challenges & Opportunities

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• Big Challenges
Challenges & Opportunities

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• Though VIVO is based on a model that allows
inference, the model in under-utilized.
• Built-in inference engine with limited functionalities.
VIVO-ISF Ontology: An under-utilized model

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• We have built Institutional
Knowledge Graphs (IKGs)
at national / international
institutions, using the
same data model.
Cross-Institutional Search & Discovery
Cornell
Texas A&M
Duke Brown
UF
…
Institutional Knowledge Graphs

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• How do we create now
linkages between these
IKGs for national /
international networking
and discovery.
Cornell
Texas A&M
Duke Brown
UF
…
Cross-Institutional Search & Discovery

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• Small / Institutional Challenges
Challenges & Opportunities

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• How does a person
use long lists views
that are available in
out of the box VIVO?
Representation

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• Out of the box,
– Limited analysis & visualizations.
– Data can only be downloaded/shared in RDF format.
• RDF to JSON transformation ?
– Limited data reuse: Cannot push data to other sites.
• An API ?
VIVO: Under-developed for reporting and analysis

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• Manual curation
• Using upstream sources (web of science, scopus, pubmed, crossref etc.)
• Data updates
Data quality is still an issue!

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Scholars@Cornell
Powered by VIVO

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Aggregate views in Scholars@Cornell

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1. Scholars pages are non-editable.
2. Date quality is a high priority.
3. No manual assertions. Infer knowledge graphs from the given
research data.
4. Use D3 visualizations to present aggregate views.
5. Visualizations: another way to navigate through the linked data.
Some important notes

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Some Snapshots
https://scholars.cornell.edu
Scholars@Cornell

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Two Takeaways

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VIVO IS NOT ABOUT FACULTY
PROFILES ONLY
VIVO – A Faculty Profile System (FPS) ?

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VIVO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A
GREAT RESEARCH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
VIVO – A Research Information System?
Data
Modeling
Data
Recording
Data
Analysis

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• VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00428ED1V01Y201207WBE002
• Research Information Management Systems – A new service category ?
– Loran Dempsey (Vice-President and Chief Strategist - OCLC)
http://orweblog.oclc.org/research-information-management-systems-a-new-service-category/
• Scholars@Cornell: Visualizing the Scholarship Data
https://figshare.com/articles/Scholars_Cornell_Visualizing_the_Scholarship_Data/5303620
Some other useful links

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Muhammad Javed, Ph.D.
Ontology Engineer/Tech. Lead (Scholars@Cornell)
Cornell University Library
mj495@cornell.edu | @mjaved495